THE CIRCLE OF LIFE - The inside story
Shoot all the crocodiles in the river and the barbel (Catfish) populations
explode. They eat all the small fishes and the kingfishers
and other birdlife disappear from the river.
A link in the chain of THE CIRCLE OF LIFE is
broken. It is the basic principle of the whole creation that
all things compliment each other and control the balance of
nature, so the ancient Chinese philosophy of YIN YANG makes
sense.
This explains the 'law of the jungle". In the
animal realm there are hunters but there are also the
hunted, yet unlike mankind they live in harmony and remain
WILD AND BEAUTIFUL AND FREE.
From ancient times man has been fascinated by nature. Just being out there
is food for his soul. Jesus himself spent much time in the
wilderness - in the Zulu language EHLATHINI.
The American Indians were great conservationists and understood the value of
the ecology. With the colonization of America North and
South and the First World's quest for land and riches, the
indigenous people were disrupted CHIEF SEATTLE was one who
questioned this in a letter to the President of the United
States. Africa too was colonized and tribal life was
disrupted. Tribes were deprived of their grazing and hunting
grounds,
First world principles and forms of government were imposed upon them.
Though not all bad and progress is inevitable, this
nevertheless caused upsets. Colonization has brought
infrastructure, education and skills but some were not ready
for it. Sometimes it would have been better to LEAVE THE
PEOPLE alone. Interference in their lifestyles led to over
population and poaching.
It was not only the first world that bulldozed
their way from Europe through the other continents. The
tribes of Africa and America also fought for territory just
as crocodiles do in a river and rhinos do in the wild.
AGISYMBAN TRILOGY is three stories about central Africa.
First how the Bushmen, the original inhabitants of the south
were persecuted by tribes from the North, then how the
colonizers came and finally the end result - a war.
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