The speaker argues that elites in Africa deliberately keep people poor and dependent to maintain control, comparing it to how churches once restricted Bible access to the clergy. Real empowerment means teaching the whole truth so people can leave oppressive systems, not creating new dependencies.
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You wonder why is that all the hate that Africa has been receiving has never brought Africa to poverty. Nobody will give you what will make you like them. It is the game nations play. There are two ways to this. Listen, if at all I'm going to give this nation anything worthwhile, I have to make sure that it never becomes much. The only way it will never become much is for me to support and make sure that the people over them will steal it. I need them to steal it and I'll tell them it's free affair. If I cannot but give them something big, I need thieves. As long as they are there, they keep me in power. Do you understand this illustration? Unfortunately, this system, if care is not taken, will also operate it in church. That the only way to keep people coming— go and check church history— is to make sure that they don't have information as much as the pastor. Was there not a time that people don't have access to the Bible, just the priests, and they use it for their own corrupt practices? When you teach people the whole truth, you're empowering them. And part of what you're empowering them to do is to leave you if need be. And that's what people don't like. You are not empowered if I raise you not to be able to leave me. Empowerment means that if at any point there's a need to, you leave. Empowerment is not for dependence. Look at this. Which of these will empower these guys? You are anointed. The spirit