If you want to destroy a people, you have to first of all capture their minds, then turn them against themselves and watch them self destruct.

This is usually done through unceasing propaganda.

Before the propaganda is made operational, those who know better are eliminated and taken out of the picture. Then those that can't tell their left from their right are groomed in the new ways.

The new converts are then taught to first fear their old ways, then hate them and then completely denounce and abandon them.

This is the situation with Africans, Slave Trade and Christianity.

Before Europeans came to the shores of our lands, we were self sustaining, just like other human civilizations across the world.

We had trade and commerce. We had social and political systems. We had a healthy family system and we also had our spiritual belief systems.

Our customs and traditions were practiced and upheld with reverence to the laws of nature.

Nature was here before we came, nature provided all our sustenance, so we served nature in return for it's providence.

Everything we needed was given to us by nature, we in turn paid tributes in service and sacrifice.

We served nature and were in concordance with the elements of the universe. The Sun, The Waters, The Air and The Earth.

We understood the language of the universe, so we didn't overstep. The times we did, we paid reparations.

Whenever we erred, the universe through the forces that served them (water spirits, fire spirits, earth spirits and air spirits) drew their debt on their behalf.

There was an established system and everything that exists knew it's boundaries. (The Igbos say, nwa mmuo emegbula nwa mmadu, nwa mmadu emegbula nwa mmuo - may the spirits not oppress man and may man not oppress the spirits)

Everything as it should be, was passed down from generations through customs and traditions. Through oral and written stories. Through music, dances, adages, proverbs and spoken words.

We as Africans were in a peaceful coexistence with nature. Nature provided for and protected us and we paid homage from time to time.

There was a lot of spoken and unspoken covenant between us and the forces of nature.

Our ancestors lived through these covenants and thrived for thousands of years before the Europeans knew about the land called Africa.

What happened when they came?

They saw resources littered everywhere. Africa is richly blessed with everything humans need and more.

They wanted these things for themselves.

First they tried to trade but through fair trade, they wouldn't be able to give us much of anything because they had few of anything. Almost everything they had, we already had but everything we had, they were seriously lacking.

So, first they started kidnapping and trading our ancestors amongst themselves. Thereby eliminating the strongholds and foundation of the African society.

Then they introduced Christianity to the remaining unsuspecting, naive, fear stricken left overs.

It was a crusade of the highest proportions. A wave of unceasing propaganda against the things our ancestors did and how they used to live.

Everything we were, we were made to hate and fear. Everything.

Our traditional ways were termed idolatry. Our names were mocked and forcefully changed to European names with no African meanings.

Our lands were desecrated. Our African spirituality and traditional ways were bastardized and represented as evil.

These new Christian converts were brainwashed into thinking they have been rescued from something that meant them harm. So they started hating on those things.

This new mindset was then propagated from that generation downwards through the expansion of Christianity in Africa.

Traces of our past was practically wiped off. We forgot who we were.

We could no longer speak our language. We no longer bear our own names.

We no longer ate our native food. Everything we were, we abandoned and ultimately forgot.

We may have forgotten who we were, but nature hasn't failed to keep reminding us.

Our bond with nature was severed when the Europeans came.

The generation that understood the languages of the universe were no more, so there's a problem of communication.

The universe is still speaking to us children of nature, but instead of paying attention, listen and try to understand, we scamper in fear and run into the church.

We run into the churches and throw ourselves on the ground, screaming Jesus and holy ghost fire.

You are screaming Jesus and holy ghost fire to save you from who? From nature?

Don't you see that you are screaming in vain?

Can't you see that you have been taught to fight against forces that you should be conversing with?

The Europeans not only did harm with the introduction of Christianity, he also continued his propaganda through the entertainment industry.

Hollywood and Nollywood are tools that have been used to further turn Africans against the ways of their ancestors.

It is not a coincidence that we as present day Africans are struggling with creative ideas. With poverty. With sicknesses and diseases.

We are experiencing a fundamental lack.

It is because we have left that which made our ancestors great and until we go back, we will continue to struggle.

The Igbos have a saying that Ngwere hara ukwu oshishi, aka akpara ya (When the lizard leaves the safety of the tree, it ends up in captivity)

What we are running from isn't chasing us, but merely calling us.

Embrace the ways of your ancestors and start thriving.

So true!

The present generation of Nigerians have been indoctrinated and brainwashed from childhood with islam and Christianity and all they think about is how to make it into an imaginary heaven.

This indoctrination and brainwashing from childhood is the greatest sin ever committed on humanity!

It produces a people that are mentally lazy and confused and those who live by wishful thinking of believing in prayers. This is why you see most Nigerians shouting God and Jesus in almost every activity of their daily lives especially for things they should be achieving with their brains and physical body.

You see their politicians wasting public wealth in buikding worship centers in government institutions and sponsoring religious vacations with scarce resources while majority of the people are in abject poverty.


Go to every nook and cranny of Nigeria and see religious centers competing with residential spaces.
Valuable time that should be used in solving our immediate problems are wasted by the youths motivation centers.

A big damage has been done to our psych and the plaga has a already taken root. With a significant majority already zombified, it will be a herculean task re-informing our people.

I am glad there's a slow and gradual awakening happening.

Nature doesn't need people to fight for it like the Gods of the abrahamic religions do.

We are at the age of enlightenment and many of the brainwashed zombies are waking up.

Those who can't see the signs of nature talking to them are suffering real life plagues.

A thread here actually inspired me to write this.

https://www.nairaland.com/7738767/story-life-lessons-learn

This dude seem to have a call to serve by a deity in his hometown and instead of answering, he's praying and fasting and hoping the deity leaves him alone.

Imagine having the honor and privilege of being called to serve one of the forces of nature and you are running to the churches to save you.

Imagine deliberately running away from your destiny because you are scared, brainwashed and ignorant.

sotall:
So true!

The present generation of Nigerians have been indoctrinated and brainwashed from childhood with islam and Christianity and all they think about is how to make it into an imaginary heaven.

This indoctrination and brainwashing from childhood is the greatest sin ever committed on humanity!

It produces a people that are mentally lazy and confused and those who live by wishful thinking of believing in prayers. This is why you see most Nigerians shouting God and Jesus in almost every activity of their daily lives especially for things they should be achieving with their brains and physical body.

You see their politicians wasting public wealth in buikding worship centers in government institutions and sponsoring religious vacations with scarce resources while majority of the people are in abject poverty.


Go to every nook and cranny of Nigeria and see religious centers competing with residential spaces.
Valuable time that should be used in solving our immediate problems are wasted by the youths motivation centers.

A big damage has been done to our psych and the plaga has a already taken root. With a significant majority already zombified, it will be a herculean task re-informing our people.