Time for Religious Sovereignty (Religious Decolonisation) in the Black World.
The Smart African, 26 January 2025
We shall discuss religion because teachers of religion have the greatest power over the minds of Africans. It should not be so, but it is so! In order for our souls to prosper, an environment where truth, evidence-based reasoning, and a level of knowledge about HOW the religious practices of Whites and Arabs the two groups that cruelly enslaved us, have become ours, is needed.
In the very beginning, in ancient times, the priest had played a major role in the community. He was the one who protected his people from all manner of harm, whether from unfavourable weather, or disease, or a criminal-minded person in the community. He also would pray for success for his people if they were to go to war. Essentially, if he was not corrupt, the priest was a preserver of lives, and watchman of the community.
How things then changed! The Arab Jihadists came, the White Missionaries came and everything changed. They left behind teachers of religion who would teach Africans the kind of religion that these foreign Enslavers wanted, which of course would put the Enslaver in good light. The Imam began to speak in Arabic and promoted an Arabized view of life into the minds of his African followers. In the same manner, pastors and priests began to teach the interpretation of the Bible taught to them by whichever White church denomination they had chosen to follow. (So no more was the priest the watchman of his community).
Finally now, Africans, and others in the Global South are starting to create a new Decolonised World Order for themselves. The wind of Decolonisation is blowing right across Black communities worldwide, and those who want to be part of this are reading, researching, and thinking. Decolonisation is holistic and involves every aspect of our lives. We need to decolonise our ancestral lands, as well as achieve mental decolonisation, physical decolonisation, economic decolonisation, and religious (or spiritual) decolonisation.
Enlightened Africans are becoming intentional and therefore not only analysing what is in our communities, but also their effects in the short term and long term. We know that freedom of religion is essential for peace and so religious choices should not be obstructed. There is therefore no problem regarding whatever religion an individual chooses to follow UNLESS if their deity (god, chief prophet etc) looks like our coloniser or our enslaver. It seems that is where things are heading – now there is going to be a problem. It needs to be understood that this is not being personal, so it is not about any particular individual, it is about ERASING EVERY THING that harms our community materially, physically, psychologically, spiritually, financially or in any other way. Every Black person would now have to develop a collective mindset and think about how what we do affects our people.
For decades we have ignored the experts among us (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers etc) who had raised the alarm that worshipping deities that look like the oppressor and enslaver not only does not make sense but is patently harmful. It is harmful in that it leads to undeservedly admire the coloniser and his culture and at the same time, despise our own Black people and our culture. Such attitudes help White or Arab Supremacy for they would then easily find a Black person who will sabotage his own people. For example, looter politicians and senior civil servants who stash away or invest the looted funds in a Western country or in Arab Dubai, helping those economies that had already benefited from Enslaved Black labour. Hardly would that money even though stolen, be used to uplift a Black community say by investing in a Caribbean country or in a Black American or Black Canadian or Black Brazilian business. Much of the self-hatred and self-aggression that we see in our communities worldwide can be traced to the centuries-long poison that the oppressor has injected into us and religion especially deities that look like the oppressor are a major Tool of the oppressor that work against us. There is WONDERFUL news now for us. It is news that is wonderful for those among us who believe in the Bible (note, I did not use the word “Christian”) and wonderful for those who are Moslems since they respect the Bible. The wonderful news is that the Messiah described in the Bible is a Black Messiah. He has deep brown skin (burnished bronze) and woolly white hair like ours. Plus, Josephus the first century historian described Messiah in 72 AD when eye-witnesses would still be alive as “black-skinned”. This is the wonderful news that sets our minds and our lives in a new true direction. The BLACK MESSIAH of the Bible came to do two things: To (i) set people free from their sins if they repent, and (ii) to set us free from the oppressor (see Luke 4:18 ESV). This second work all the church denominations of the oppressor ignore, but the Bible does not ignore it.
Those who would find it hard to take up this wonderful Biblical truth about the Identity of the Messiah would be individuals with a fanatic mind whether they follow the White Jesus lie (heresy) fanatically, or their pastor/priest fanatically or Arab Mohamed fanatically. I do not have the skills to help them so for now they can be ignored.
The internet has been an invaluable resource and has helped Africans free themselves from the mental hold of false teachings and false teachers of religion. Space does not allow me to say more but although not addressing Decolonising religion specifically, Prof Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni is a man to listen to. He has several videos on Decolonial Thinking and Decolonisation on the internet. There is also the Daughters of Truth Talk Show, providing online consciousness and enlightenment information for Sovereignty and Self-Determination Restoration (in Nigeria it is via the NINAS Movement, but applicable everywhere in Africa), and Decolonisation.
NOTES
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Video: Decolonial Thinking with Prof Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni: 1. Decolonisation
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Daughters of Truth video: Africa Rejects the Christianity and Religion of Servitude
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An article where the Messiah is described by historian Josephus in 72 AD. (in The problem with white Jesus, The Charlotte Post) Link HERE:
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NINAS website Link HERE:
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NINAS Articles Centre Link HERE: