Across the world the most prosperous people are those who held onto their culture whether it be the Chinese, The Koreans, The Indians, The British, The Japanese but for whatever reason in Africa day by day we continue to lose our culture and our religion to foreigners and it si slowly becoming clear that we're suffering from an inferiority complex and are in a state of mental slavery and unless we turn things around the next few decades will only become worse and worse for us Africans the only way is to return to our Traditional Religions like Ifa, Odinani and Maguzawa our existence before these foreign religions came was progressive and peaceful we had our own math systems, inventions, scripts and until we return to our traditional religions we will never return to our past glory of indigenous ingenuity and progress.

A long overdue debate

Abohboy:
Across the world the most prosperous people are those who held onto their culture whether it be the Chinese, The Koreans, The Indians, The British, The Japanese but for whatever reason in Africa day by day we continue to lose our culture and our religion to foreigners and it si slowly becoming clear that we're suffering from an inferiority complex and are in a state of mental slavery and unless we turn things around the next few decades will only become worse and worse for us Africans the only way is to return to our Traditional Religions like Ifa, Odinani and Maguzawa our existence before these foreign religions came was progressive and peaceful we had our own math systems, inventions, scripts and until we return to our traditional religions we will never return to our past glory of indigenous ingenuity and progress.

Anything just to paint Christianity (and the other one) black.

Countries practicing indigenous religions and those of other faiths have excelled and failed at different times in history.

Today you live in better houses, wear better clothes and can easily move around the world. What did your ifa do all the dark years of your ancestors in the forest wearing animal skin with no shoes?

It took people from other practices to help your ancestors discover themselves and write their history, while they were busy instilling fear and placing a covering cast over their descendants.

Religion is not the problem of the world, neither is it the problem of Africa. The whites have discovered this and have achieved great things. Descendants of ifa have refused to question their god why it can't help them like the gods of the Chinese and the Indians.

deekseen:


Anything just to paint Christianity (and the other one) black.

Countries practicing indigenous religions and those of other faiths have excelled and failed at different times in history.

Today you live in better houses, wear better clothes and can easily move around the world. What did your ifa do all the dark years of your ancestors in the forest wearing animal skin with no shoes?

It took people from other practices to help your ancestors discover themselves and write their history, while they were busy instilling fear and placing a covering cast over their descendants.

Religion is not the problem of the world, neither is it the problem of Africa. The whites have discovered this and have achieved great things. Descendants of ifa have refused to question their god why it can't help them like the gods of the Chinese and the Indians.

See the views foreign religion and culture have brought we had shoes and we had cotton cloth made enmasse some cloths made in Kano even made it to Venice and Barcelona we had a lot of things, the whites are giving up on religion meanwhile us Africans are becoming religious our old religion if it didn't give results was given up and went to other solutions or deities for help and if it really didn't work they just worked hard but today people will pray for their whole lives without seeing anything wrong until we either become atheistsor switch back to our traditional religions we will see no progress,


Descendants of Ifa question everything and notice how they don't go to pray every single day for blessings they rarely ever pray they only go for unique circumstances I have a friend who's a babalawo and he says the only way to riches is work but for christians and muslims they believe it's prayers.

Tony3245:
A long overdue debate

Indeed

There is something that make us run from our ancestors way of religion.

What was it?

If you can find what it is, is then you will know maybe you can convince us or not.

Adamgeneral12:
There is something that make us run from our ancestors way of religion.

What was it?

If you can find what it is, is then you will know maybe you can convince us or not.

In some areas it was persecution, in others fear of demonization ( trade embargo ) threatened by the British and for others they thought it would serve them better then their traditional religions but for the most part people at the time practised both it is only their children and grandchildren that practice one.

Abohboy:
Across the world the most prosperous people are those who held onto their culture whether it be the Chinese, The Koreans, The Indians, The British, The Japanese but for whatever reason in Africa day by day we continue to lose our culture and our religion to foreigners and it si slowly becoming clear that we're suffering from an inferiority complex and are in a state of mental slavery and unless we turn things around the next few decades will only become worse and worse for us Africans the only way is to return to our Traditional Religions like Ifa, Odinani and Maguzawa our existence before these foreign religions came was progressive and peaceful we had our own math systems, inventions, scripts and until we return to our traditional religions we will never return to our past glory of indigenous ingenuity and progress.

We had our own math system, inventions, scripts too? Where?

Our existence before the foreign invasion was progressive and peaceful? When?

If we don't return to our traditional religions we will never return to our past glory of indigenous ingenuity and progress? Do you have any evidence to back up these past glories you speak of?

Kobojunkie:
We had our own math system, inventions, scripts too? Where?

Our existence before the foreign invasion was progressive and peaceful? When?

If we don't return to our traditional religions we will never return to our past glory of indigenous ingenuity and progress? Do you have any evidence to back up these past glories you speak of?

Scripts: Aniocha Script, Nsibidi, Odu Ifa ( Although not necessarily a script it was a list of lines which represented information like words )

Maths: How do you build roads, houses or boats without maths or science it would simply collapse and the yoruba numeric system is built on 20 multiplication rules instead of 10.

Inventions: I don't think I have to list this google is free


These were all built on the back of local knowledge since then how many things have we done independently? Not only that but it allows us to see our history and culture in new light someone has already come and said we had no shoes and clothes when this is false we had thriving textile factories and shoe factories