Gambia: Change of Diet

editorial

Colonisation is the establishment of political and economic control over a foreign territory. Most African countries were in one way or the other colonised by a country from the West, who were mainly interested in enriching themselves and imposing their culture and lifestyles on us.

Africans need to be mentally de-colonised and take a firm stance by going back to our culture, which we inherited from our forefathers. It is a matter of fact that we should minimise eating the food that our colonial masters are exporting to us. We have to be mentally strong and refuse some of the food exported to Africa, which may be unhealthy for us. Before the advent of colonialism, Africans were living much healthier and longer lives without suffering from most of the diseases that we are now faced with today.

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