When Did Money Become More Important Than Humanity?

There was a time—before currencies, before borders hardened, before profit margins—when survival depended on each other.

Not in theory. In practice.

In breath.

In body.

In community.

We lived in circles, not hierarchies. In many traditional African societies, life was not organized around accumulation, but around belonging. Wealth was not counted in coins—it was measured in relationships, in shared responsibility, in the ability of a community to ensure that no one went without.

To exist was to be held.

The Memory of Us

Across the continent, long before colonial disruption, communities operated on principles that many of us are still trying to reclaim.

Ubuntu.

I am because we are.

It wasn’t just philosophy—it was infrastructure.

Children were raised collectively. Food was shared. Elders were revered as living libraries. There was no concept of individual success detached from collective well-being. You did not rise if it meant someone else fell.

Contrast that with now.

We celebrate billionaires while people sleep on sidewalks.