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| Promoting Humanism In Africa by Nobody: 8:07pm On Aug 01, 2016 |
Promoting humanism in Africa Africa has had a troubled history in modern times hundreds of years of colonialism and slave trading, followed by a century of combat, genocides, epidemics of malaria and AIDS, and excruciating poverty. The religious history has also been strange and unique. A century ago, only one percent of the world’s Christians lived in sub-Saharan Africa. Then evangelical Christianity swept into the vacuum left when the European powers went home. Today,more than 25 percent of the world’s Christians live in this region. Africa is quickly becoming the new face of Christianity. Some of the results of this process have been neutral or good. But there’s also been an increase in antigay intolerance, including a proposed national law in Uganda to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death. Uganda has also suffered from the longest running civil war in history as the Lord’s Resistance Army fought for three decades to instill a Ten Commandments-based government in Uganda. In the midst, a small but steady humanist movement has formed in several countries including Uganda and Nigeria. Being an African humanist right now isn’t easy.Leo Igwe, the most prominent Nigerian humanist and a former IHEU representative, is leading a difficult struggle against witchcraft accusations in West Africa. Women accused of being witches are rounded up from their villages and relocated to witch camps in Northern Ghana. While trying to draw world attention to this practice and the abduction of witch children, Leo has been arrested and beaten more than once, and his family has been threatened. But he persists in fighting this abuse of human rights a powerful way to apply humanist values to a real-world problem. Uganda humanists have started a small but successful network of humanist schools, providing science-and critical-thinking–based schools as an alternative to religious schools in the country. And one of the most prominent political columnists at the Uganda Daily Monitor is an articulate humanist and atheist named Alan Tacca. “Part of the reason why Africans are deeply religious, spiritual and supernatural in outlook is because the people have given up hope of achieving justice and happiness in this life and in this world,” he wrote in his column. “Humanists must be involved in changing and challenging unjust institutions, customs, and traditions . . . For humanism to flourish in Africa, humanists must take the quest for justice and human emancipation seriously.” Taccamakes a call to move beyond the exchange of ideas into social and political action to improve the human condition. That’s why African humanists are among the most active and passionate in global humanism, lobbying or petitioning their governments to take action against injustice and not just injustice against humanists, but (like Igwe’s work in witch camps and Tacca’s calls for basic human rights) injustice against humans. Atheists and theists alike in Africa often point to Ubuntu, a southern African humanistic philosophy of life, as a positive ethic that binds people together. Ubuntu is about recognizing the ways in which people depend on each other. One of the best things about Ubuntu is the fact that religious believers (such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu) and secular humanists alike embrace it. And it’s become a powerful way for African nontheists to frame their humanism in a culturally relevant way. [/b]  Witch Camp Ghana 2 Likes |
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