Indigenous Religion

Can any of you name one advantage of  the foreign religions we adopetd in Africa over our indiginous religions. Ex: What did we gain by adopting a Jewish god or the Arabian prophet that we wouldn't gain in traditional african religions?

Babalawos speak in tongues too.
We still do business today with the Chinese without worshipping their dragon, aint we?

The advantage is that the western religion was a vehicle to adopt slavery and imperialism

Hmmm to the enslaved,if at all there is advantage,it only give a choice to alternative religion.What more ?

@ topic.

I learned in primary school about the missionary Mary Slessor who stopped the killing of twins in Calabar and I do not have to offer sacrifices (both animal and human) to please a god.

What then will you call all those tadatadatada they speak to conjure the spirits? Nigerian language? What is speaking in tongues?

Did they also teach you that oyibo kidnapped jaja of opobo(probably from ibo or calabar) at the same time  because he questioned their invasion of their land?

Yes I'm aware of Jaja as well as Bishop Ajayi Crowther who were kidnapped but should we forget we sold our own flesh and blood?


My own father attested to the fact, that's enough proof for me, let no one deceive you.

Maybe your own family don't keep its history alive, but mine does!!!!!! As much as some were kidnapped, some were as well sold. Nothing to be proud of, but my great, great grandfather partook in it, my father told me so. Why should he lie? To boost his morale? I don't think so. The fact is that slave trade was banned in the West but Nigerians still thought it fit to sell their brothers to smugglers, whether you like it or not it's the truth.

Now, that's a laugh!!!!!!!!!

Yes I did and the stench is coming to meet you. You better wear a face mask.

I don't know much about tadatadatada but I know that Ifa uses a lot of incantations.  Yoruba is a very deep and ancient language and there are many words in the Ifa corpus that are not in common usage today.  Also Ifa makes a deal of phonetics.  Yet it is yoruba.  The deepest yoruba that you will ever hear.  Compared to common contemporary yoruba the difference is like the difference between shakespeare (or wordsworth) and nursery rhymes.  It is not for nothing that Orunmila is called the master Gbedegbeyo of yoruba.  In fact all babalawos are sometimes called gbedegbeyo. 

I couldn't tell you what speaking in tongues is.  I've heard tell that it is speaking the language of angels etc. I couldn't corroborate this for you. But I've heard pentecostal speak in tongues and it sounds nothing like the igedes and ofos that the babalawos incant.  These are in yoruba and though you might find one or two words that are ancient or of vague meaning any yoruba speaker will get the jist of what is being said. 

But christianity is still a foreign introduction.  That is Christianity as we know it today.  The doctrinal religion that was formulated by various church councils of the Roman empire over many centuries.

Actually the main problem is the concept of Africa.  That is the european concept.  Africa is not a separate cultural block or historical block.  Influence has always passed from African into europe and asia and vice versa.  As a landmass africa is the same as europe and asia.  They are all connected.  If some one draws a line on a map and says that one side is africa and the other middle east that doesn't change anything, traffic will still flow across the imaginary border.