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Sanchez01:
Most people don’t know what is at play here and they think the lady is an angel. The divorce means she might get to hang on to some properties of the man or what they both have. The adoption means she gets tax cut/refund for being a ‘parent’ and taking care of an invalid. And another twist; she most likely is the beneficiary of his life insurance since they were married. And being brain dead, he certainly can’t think of removing her from his life insurance.

The lady is smart. She divorced him but kept him close. If he is being taken care of by his family, they could influence an updated life insurance policy/beneficiary.

She can still remarry while taking care of her ex husband and still get to be his life insurance beneficiary.

ARE YOU MINDING THESE BRITISH-COLONISED FREAKS?

ALL THEY SEE IS A ''WHITE ANGEL'' SENT BY THEIR ''WHITE JESUS''.

THAT'S THE LIMIT OF THEIR INTELLECT.

I PLEDGE TO NIGERIA MY COUNTRY
TO BE FAITHFUL, LOYAL AND HONEST
TO SERVE NIGERIA WITH ALL MY STRENGTH
TO DEFEND HER UNITY
AND UPHOLD HER HONOUR AND GLORY
SO HELP ME GOD

I am surprised to see Igbos displaying a sudden love for Hausa Fulani.

Obi himself virtually sleeps in the mosque now..

This country is just something else.

ppogba:
Trump appointed his daughter and son-in-law. Heaven did not fall and the western media were all mute.

DON’T MIND THEM.

EVEN TODAY, TRUMP’S DAUGHTER HAS TAKEN OVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TREASURY, AND THEY NOW USE THE PARTY FUNDS TO PAY TRUMP’S LEGAL FEES AMOUNTING TO $90,000 PER DAY!

geoworldedu:
This is what you brainless mofos always say when they burst your bubbles. Something about life I've come to term with is the fact that people talk about what they do or believe more often. The western world hardly talk about using spirituality to achieve scientific inventions or anything at all, it's we african that talk about it 95 percent of the time because it's what we always try to do without positive results. Now tell me who's talking trash here.
Now if you communicate with the dead, how does that translate to the dead taking actions on earth here as portrayed in the video of discussion here? I believe you can talk to the dead, but you go to their own realms, not they coming to yours to achieve that. So how does speaking to the dead have anything to do with the dead causing a physical stir in the earth atmosphere

BUT YOUR WHITE GODS HAVE TV PROGRAMS WHERE THEY VISIT HAUNTED HOUSES WHERE STRANGE PHENOMENONA ARE OCCURRING, LIKE THINGS FALLING DOWN FOR NO REASON, OR DOORS SLAMMING WITHOUT BEING PUSHED, TO ACTUAL GHOST APPEARANCES!

THEY GO IN THERE WITH THEIR TRADITIONAL PRIESTS THEY CALL ‘CLAIRVOYANTS’ AND SEEK AUDIENCE WITH THE SPIRIT DISTURBING THE HOUSE, AND EVEN SPEAK WITH IT.

SO YOUR WHITE GODS INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN ACTUAL SPIRIT INTERFERENCE IN OUR REALM.

SO GO ON. CONDEMN THEM AS BACKWARD AND PRIMITIVE, OR ARE YOU SCARED OF THEM?

IT’S ONLY AFRICANS YOU CAN INSULT, ABI?

COMPOUND IDIOT.

geoworldedu:
This is what you brainless mofos always say when they burst your bubbles. Something about life I've come to term with is the fact that people talk about what they do or believe more often. The western world hardly talk about using spirituality to achieve scientific inventions or anything at all, it's we african that talk about it 95 percent of the time because it's what we always try to do without positive results. Now tell me who's talking trash here.

WHAT GARBAGE TRASH ARE YOU SAYING?

ADDRESS WHAT I JUST TYPED. DON’T IGNORE IT AND START TYPING RUBBISH.

YOU CLEARLY LACK THE BRAIN TO ADDRESS WHAT I JUST TYPED.

DO YOU KNOW THERE ARE MILLIONS MORE SEERS AND CLAIRVOYANTS, PALM READERS AND FORTUNE TELLERS IN THE WEST THAN IN AFRICA TODAY?

ARE YOU AWARE THAT THEY HAVE FULL BLOWN WITCHCRAFT SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS IN THE WESTERN WORLD?

BLASTED MUMU.

THEY CAME HERE AND TAUGHT YOU THAT IT IS ALL NONSENSE, WHILE PRACTICING IT OPENLY TILL TODAY IN THEIR COUNTRIES,

geoworldedu:
It is more stupid to assume what you don't know to be spiritual. Few years back, cancer, ulcer, covid, AIDS, strokes, diabetes etc are all termed spiritual activities. Even eclipse of the sun. But now we know better, because more people are leaving their stupidity to embrace reality.
Spirituality to me does exist, but not in the way you guys explain physical activities to be spiritual just because you are short of the knowledge of nature. Africa will only be liberated when more stupid people like you turn around to be knowledgeable and scientific, rather than being foolish and superstitious.

YOU ARE AN IGNORANT PEA BRAIN.

THE WESTERN WORLD YOU WORSHIP ARE MORE INTO THE OCCULT THAN AFRICANS WHO THEY BRAINWASHED WITH CHRISTIANITY TO FEAR THE SPIRITUAL.

IN AMERICA AND UK THEY HAVE TV PROGRAMS WHERE A SEER COMMUNICATES WITH THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD LIVE ON AIR, AND TRANSMITS MESSAGES FROM THEM TO THEIR RELATIVES IN THE STUDIO AUDIENCE!

THEY HAVE TV PROGRAMS WHERE THEIR EXCORCISTS AND CLAIRVOYANTS VISIT HAUNTED HOUSES TO CLEAR THE SPIRITS!

IF THIS HAPPENED IN NIGERIA YOU BRAINWASHED MORO.NS WOULD SCREAM ABOUT AFRICAN ‘BACKWARDNESS’, BECAUSE YOU ARE THICK AND BRAINWASHED WITH NO SENSE.

geoworldedu:
Even that spirit is laughing at your ignorance at the moment. It is telling you kemz my son, check your dictionary for the answer. It's called whirlwind and not spirit action.

SHUT UP.

YOU DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW.

ARE YOU AWARE THAT YOU CAN ONLY PERCEIVE 0.2% OF MATTER AROUND YOU AS A PHYSICAL HUMAN?

ONLY A TINY SPECTRUM OF MATTER THAT CAN REFLECT LIGHT IS WHAT YOU CAN SEE.

THE OTHER 99.8 % OF THE UNIVERSE IS WHAT IS CALLED “DARK MATTER”, AND THAT REALITY, FILLED WITH TRILLIONS OF CONSCIOUS BEINGS AND LIFE, IS ALL AROUND YOU, BUT YOU CANNOT SEE OR PERCEIVE IT WITH YOUR 5 HUMAN SENSES.

THIS IS THE TRUTH THAT EVEN THE WESTERN SCIENCE YOU WORSHIP ADMITTED DECADES AGO.

SO IT IS STUPID AND IGNORANT TO THINK THAT WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE OR PERCEIVE DOES NOT EXIST.

ProudNigerian01:
It may be natural o and nothing spiritual about it but you see this naija wey we dey, we have seen things!!! In fact, we have seen so much that a lot of us have unconsciously tuned our mind to look at most things spiritually first before talking science.

Who say juju no dey never waka. This is the only place where people brag about how fetish they can be in broad day light.

It is serious risk to go out every day without a covering. Arrows are flying on the steady daily, because you aren't seeing them, you think nothing is happening.

There are powers believe it or not, good and bad, Light and darkness (I hope you don't get to confirm this the hard way) . The highest of these powers belong to Jesus Christ and both sides of the divide know.

Cover yourself in Jesus as you go out by praying, meditating on the word of God and keeping away from sins and sinful desires.

SHUT UP, IDIOT.

COLONISED FOOL.

SO BEFORE THE BRITISH INVADING MASS MURDERERS AND COLONIAL LOOTERS TAUGHT
YOU ABOUT “JESUS CHRIST” 100 YEARS AGO, YOUR ANCESTORS HAD NO WAY TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM SPIRITUAL ATTACK?

STUPID, BRAINWASHED FOOL.

rahmontech:
How i just wish Iran can just drop one nuke on Isreal.

The goddamn isrealis think they own this world, who tf they think they are?

Abeg even if na just mistake just send 1 nuke to Isreal and turn the batardfff mfffsss into dust.

Russia will likely do that at some point.

paramakina202:
The egyptian civilization I am celebrating is it not African heritage? Ethiopia is not great African civilization. If you visit you go see evidence.

Thoughtless. Do you think it is a coincidence that Ethiopia was never colonised?

That's why they retain many of their ancient structures till date.

Egypt was so coveted by the whites that instead of destroying it, they claimed it was THEM that built it. A rancid LIE they still perpetrate till this day in cahoots with their fellow Arab land thieves who today call themselves 'Egyptians'.

Of there are many great african civilizations that are worth of mention not your juju mud
hut civilization that couldn't stand the test of time.

Always glad to educate an illiterate.

Let's start off with Benin, which you just insulted with your little mental midget lips.

Benin city was a city of multi-storeyed public buildings and monuments.. They built with MUD BRICKS, which were the most commonly used building materials in West Africa all the way up to Pharaonic Egypt and Nubia.

You are a child, so you don't know that MUD BRICKS were respected and durable building materials in the ancient world, right up till this day. Huge multi-storeyed monuments are built with them.

This is a drawing of Benin City in 1847 by the English visitor, Mary Evans.

This was 50 years before it was invaded by the British.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhFQSSxX0AADqSb.jpg

According to scholars,

''At the end of the 13th century, a European traveler encountered the great metropolis of Benin in West Africa (present Nigeria, Edo State), writing: “The town seems to be very great. When you enter into it, you go into a great broad street...which seems to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes street in Amsterdam…The King's palace is a collection of buildings which occupy as much space as the town of Harlem, and which is enclosed with walls. There are numerous apartments for the Prince`s ministers and fine galleries, most of which are as big as those on the Exchange at Amsterdam. They are supported by wooden pillars encased with copper, where their victories are depicted, and which are carefully kept very clean. The town is composed of thirty main streets, very straight and 120 feet wide, apart from an infinity of small intersecting streets. The houses are close to one another, arranged in good order. These people are in no way inferior to the Dutch as regards cleanliness; they wash and scrub their houses so well that they are polished and shining like a looking glass.” (Source: Walter Rodney, ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, pg. 69)

The medieval Nigerian city of Benin was built to “a scale comparable with the Great Wall of China”. There was a vast system of defensive walling totalling 10,000 miles in all. Even before the full extent of the city walling had become apparent the Guinness Book of Records carried an entry in the 1974 edition that described the city as: “The largest earthworks in the world carried out prior to the mechanical era.”

Sadly, in 1897, Benin City was destroyed by British forces under Admiral Harry Rawson. The city was looted, blown up and burnt to the ground. A collection of the famous Benin Bronzes are now in the British Museum in London. Part of the 700 stolen bronzes by the British troops were sold back to Nigeria in 1972.

Here is another account of the great Benin City regarding the city walls “They extend for some 16 000 kilometres in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They cover 6500 square kilometres and were all dug by the Edo people. In all, they are four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. They took an estimated 150 million hours ..to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet.” - Source: Wikipedia, Architecture of Africa.” Fred Pearce the New Scientist 11/09/99.


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WHY BENIN CITY WAS DESTROYED.

(By the way, ANY ancient city in Europe or Israel could easily be destroyed and all traces of it eliminated, if there is a colonial intent to do so. No building materials can withstand bombardment)

Over 100 African cities were DESTROYED, BOMBARDED AND BURNT DOWN BY EUROPEAN COLONIAL INVADERS.

Benin City was one of them, and was destroyed in 1897.

HERE IS WHY IT WAS DESTROYED: It was called the 'TERRA NULLIUS' directive.

According to scholars,

''Europeans invaders have destroyed most of the African cities either as punitive actions or under the scramble for Africa ‘Terra Nullius’ law.

During the scramble for Africa by Europeans, the main way to prove that a land was qualified for colonization or take over was ‘Terra Nullius”, a Latin expression deriving from Roman law meaning “land belonging to no one”, which is used in international law to describe territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state, or over which any prior sovereign has expressly or implicitly relinquished sovereignty. Sovereignty over territory which is terra nullius may be acquired through occupation”

Many islands were acquired that way when it was possible to slaughter the small population and easily prove that the land was empty before the arrival of colonial powers.

But very soon, the colonial powers were in difficulty to find “land belonging to no one”. Africa was not a Terra Nullius. Consequently, the terra nullius law was altered to include land inhabited by 'savages and uncivilized people'.

Again, very quickly the colonial power found it difficult to prove that Africa was a land of savages and uncivilized people. Instead they found, as demonstrated above, queendoms and kingdoms with great palaces and highly developed political and social norms.

At this stage, the colonial power had to DESTROY any sign of civilization, to establish Terra Nullius.

From then on, the colonial power spent a lot of energy to destroy and burn African cities, historical buildings and monuments, slaughtered the African elite of engineers, scientists, craftsmen, writers, philosophers, etc.

There is a museum in Paris with 18 000 human heads of people killed by the French colonial troops and missionaries. It’s called “Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris”.

Among the heads are the ones of African kings, kings’ families, African engineers, writers, army officers, spiritual leaders, but also ordinary men, women, children that the french found unusual, exotic enough or interesting to kill to enrich their Museum of natural history...

France was not alone in the european competition to behead the maximum of variety of exotic people. The skulls and heads of many Africans still could be found in museums and unusual places around Europe.

Another consequence of the Terra Nullius law defined as a land inhabited by savages, lead to the capture of Africans to display in zoos and public events around Europe, in primitive conditions, to demonstrate the 'inferiority and barbarism' of the African people.

From that moment till now, most Europeans still think Africans are savages, inferior, grotesque, unintelligent people. They more an African would display features that would fit that stigma, the more he or she would be liked by them.''

https://corespirit.com/articles/100-amazing-african-cities-that-were-completely-destroyed-by-europeans


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Now can you see the desperate levels the Europeans went to eradicate all traces of black civilization?

IF YOU, based on their destructive actions, have been made to believe you had no civilization in the past, the JOKE IS ON YOU.

They've manipulated YOU.

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mrvitalis:
Lol same Nigeria refused to give him land to build plan maintainace hub in Enugu ... Now they are faking smiles like they are happy

Yet Allen is still doing one Nigeria

I have done one Nigeria here on nairaland... Was one of the biggest advocates

But truth is... As long as you are an Igbo man in Nigeria they would never give you a level playing ground ... The sooner igbos like Allen understand this the better

SHUT UP.

WITHOUT THAT SAME ONE NIGERIA, WOULD AIR PEACE BE WHERE THEY ARE TODAY?

IS IT NOT THE ONE NIGERIA THAT ENABLED THEM PLY EVERY NIGERIAN CITY AND GET WEALTHY AND BIGGER?

IF HE WAS PLYING ONLY SOUTH EAST ROUTES, WOULD HE HAVE PROSPERED?

IDIOTS. ABEG GET LOST.

ResidentSnitch:
Just shut the f** up and go look for something to eat.

As a cannibal, you’re never short of food.

paramakina202:
I do not rate your juju kingdom.

I do not rate the opinion of school dropouts.

Nothing you wan tell me.Self hating Based on what na?
Was I ever part of your juju bini kingdom?

You are a LOW IQ DUNCE who doesn’t understand that African heritage is HIS heritage, regardless of his specific “tribe”.

Just as all Europeans adhere to the Roman and Greek heritage regardless of their proximity to those places.

But you, a dunce with no brain, considers African history as worthy of insults and denigration if it’s not from your “tribe”.

You are damaged by primordial tribalism, cultural myopia, rank ignorance, colonial brainwashing and low IQ.

paramakina202:
What evidence do you have this mumu boy?

Even ants will make a better mould than that anthill in in your juju kingdom.
This Egyptian structure is almost 4000 years old.That is civilization not some ant mould you have in bini and called it largest earth structure.
Second picture is Aya Sofia built in 537 AD by the Greeks in Constantinopole now Istanbul by Emperor Constantine the great.
Keep crying!

GO AND ARGUE WITH THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS WHO DECLARED THE GREAT WALL OF BENIN THE WORLD’S LARGEST MAN-MADE STRUCTURE IN ITS 1974 AND 1982 EDITIONS, YOU SELF HATING PEA BRAIN DROWNED IN INFERIORITY COMPLEX.

TODAY YOU ARE IN GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS FOR LONGEST COOKING SESSION BY AN OLOSHO, TO SHOW YOU HOW FAR WE HAVE FALLEN WITH CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM RUBBISH.

THE GREAT WALL OF AFRICA - A Book Review

Earthworks of Benin and Ishan, the Great Wall of Africa, also known as the Great Wall of Benin is almost 10,000 miles long and at some points reaches almost 60 feet in height.

Even though it holds a place in the 1982 Guinness Book of World Records as the most massive structure that has ever been constructed, almost no one outside of a select few archeologists and specialists has heard of its enormous breadth.

This book attempts to change that forever.
The Great Wall of Africa or Great Wall of Benin actually consists of a series of linear earthworks, many of them circular, some straight, some which stand on their own, and others that interconnect across a large area of Southern Nigeria.

The Great Wall of Africa, like the Great Wall of China, is not a single wall, but a series of separate walls.

Until the writing of this book, and another that I authored called: The Real Wakandas of Africa: Dr. John Henrik Clarke vs. Herman Cain, the Great Wall of Africa, which stretches 9,941 miles long, was known popularly among African scholars as the Walls of Benin.

However, as I shall show, like the Great Wall of China, they were created by a single civilization, and therefore, constitute one major wall system.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Wall-Africa-Empire-Benins/dp/B085R82XT9#:~:text=change%20that%20forever.-,The%20Great%20Wall%20of%20Africa%20or%20Great%20Wall%20of%20Benin,large%20area%20of%20Southern%20Nigeria.

Floky215:
No single connection to Japanese...!!

Edo people ane Japanese are two distinct unique group..!!

Edo are original and got no affiliation to the Japanese..!!

Shut up your dumb face.

The video presented DNA evidence linking the two peoples.

Do you know DNA means?

Dropout.

PEDESTRIANS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE WALKING ON THE ROAD BUILT FOR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC.

THERE SHOULD BE WIDE SIDEWALKS, OR PAVEMENTS ON EACH SIDE OF THE ROAD DEDICATED TO PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC.

PRIMITIVE PEOPLE ALLERGIC TO CIVILISATION.

vanitybutiwanti:
There's no.money for what you're proposing, truly ibadan is an eyesore, it has a weird aura, even the fairly decent areas are nestled in slums, I just don't see ibadan turning to a south Africa or an Abuja in the nearest future..where will the government start from?

These things are not as hard as you people make out.

Take Ibadan for instance.

2 THINGS ALONE can transform that city:

1, A mandate that every rusted root must be replaced with non-zinc roofing or treated zinc roofing, to avoid future rusting, and older houses repainted. Govt will subsidise the cost.

2, A mandate to tar all roads AND build underground drainage and sidewalks on EVERY street.

This dual policy, if implemented, will transform Ibadan to a world class, tourist-friendly city virtually overnight.

AlexBells:
….When they are discussing international space station you are talking about national traditional worship center. The personal freedom of religion yiu enjoy if it is not enough the rest of your freedom maybe denied.

The countries building space station, which one of them worships foreign gods or elevates foreign history over theirs?

You see the surface (building space station) without seeing the deep cultural indigenisation undergirding it.

They are trees standing on their own roots.

You are trees standing on imported roots from Europe and Arabia.

Like people wearing wrong-sized, hand-me-down shoes.

How can you walk as fast as people walking in their normal shoes?

It’s impossible.

When the white missionaries translated the bible in our languages, they asked our ancestors for the name of the Almighty and they used the names our ancestors had always used for the Almighty and then told us that we did not have a belief in the Supreme.

But we now know that our priests were no less wise in their observations than the Greek sophists, the Hebrew prophets, the Arab ulema, or the Chinese literati.

Our ancestors believed in pluralism without hierarchy --- many expressions of God without saying mine is right, or the only one, and yours is bad, pagan, and heathen. Perhaps had we done that we would have stopped the alien religions at the shore, but we are the world's first humanists and we allowed others to come with their goods and their gods.

They came with a political ideology in the name of religion. It was imperialism. Imperialism brings destruction, obliteration. How could we fall for it for so long? The introduction of a book or a gun caused us to lose our footing, to stumble on our way, to denounce our fathers and mothers.

There are no other people on the earth who have had to denounce their ancestors in order to become better people. Is it because our ancestors are so strong that we are forced to denounce them before our conquerors? This is one thing you shall never find me doing because I know too much about my African contribution to history.


Contributions of Ptare

The first naming of the divine, netcher, god, or netcheru divinity from which some say the English word nature is ultimately derived.

The first trinity: Ausar, Auset, Heru which has been repeated by Amen, Mut, Khonsu and then God, the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. The Christians took out the mother who represented Auset -and gave Christians a virgin Mary, but she was no god. Asase Yaa is Mother Earth, but no one can have a son without a mother.

The first idea of a son of god or a daughter of God. Sa Ra or Sat Ra.

The first black stone altars - long before the Kaaba was revealed at Mecca.

The first example of the resurrection from the dead Ausar. This is also where we find that the Neb Ankh- Lord of Life was not a sarcophagus, that is, not a flesh eater, but something that spoke of life.

The name of god Amen now used by others in their prayers.

The idea that your good should outweigh your evil, that your soul should be lighter than a feather, that perfection is not what is sought after, but overwhelming goodness.

The complementarity of males and females, different roles but not subjugation, Mawu and Lisa, male and female - Auset and Ausar, complementarity.

The first records of ancestors' wisdom. The books of Ptahhotep, Kagemni, Duauf.

The idea of heaven and earth, Nut , Geb, Auset is called, Lady of Heaven.

Here in Africa humans have prayed to God longer than on any other continent. When the pyramids were finished, Europe had given the world not one organized civilization, even Asia was just stirring. Just look at a broad chronology:

2500 B.C. - The African people along the river valleys of the eastern highlands floated
stones down the Nile to help build monuments to God.

2500 B.C. - Xia Dynasty rises in China.

2200 B.C. - Harrapa and Mohenjo Daro were found in India.

800 B.C. - Homer is the first voice of the Greeks.

500 B.C. - Romans come to power in Europe.

639 A.D. - Arabs are able to cross into Africa with force under General El As from Arabia-Yemen.


Africans made the idea of the beautiful and the good one word nfr - nefer.

Ptare gave the world its first ethical system: Manse as ritual forms.

The ten commandments were preceded by the 42 confessions in the Egyptian Book of the Dead or more accurately the Egyptian Book of the Coming Forth By Day.

Maat - balance, harmony, justice, righteousness, reciprocity, order - Maat was the only major deity without priesthood since all were priests of Maat.

The idea of eternal life - Ankh neheh was African.

The first libations, offerings and burning of incense.

Ptare gave the idea of collective and communal salvation rather than a rampant individualism which says save me and the rest of the world go to hell.


The Future

All futures are made by human beings. But they begin with consciousness which precedes Afrocentricity.
A few days ago I walked into a Kumasi restaurant and found that I could get Ghanaian food only by pre-arranged request. But western food was immediately available. Imported. Are African Gods only on request? We determine this by how we live.

The Wolof of Senegal say wood may remain in water for ten years but it will not become a crocodile. We live Africa by living its tried and true values and customs, and this is a credit to our gods.

Almost all of the disarray in Africa can be traced to the disruption of the traditional religion. In fact, one can go from country to country and find that the cause of the problems can be laid at the feet of alien civilizations. This is not a wild statement; it is based on deep reflection and study.

I believe in the African gods and believe that just as we have exported our cultural forms in music, art and science, the world needs a more sane and sensible ethic.


What Must Be Done

We must talk honestly to our elders --- those who have not abandoned the traditions - consult the priests, learn from them, and discover the source of our problems.

Remove all images of a white Jesus. This is not correct even if one is Christian. The historical Jesus had to be black in colour despite the missionaries' attempt to paint him English and Swedish.

We must believe that our names are as sacred as Arabic or European names.

We must understand that when others extend their values, religion and institutions they are penetrating our traditions with the poison of alien power that teaches us to hate ourselves and to love our oppressors. Meanwhile, they never follow the prescriptions they leave for us.

We must enhance the economic, political and military power of African states because a lack of such power creates self doubt, identity crisis, and a search for the material gods of the west who seem to produce these things. But spirit is greater if we use it and we can only use it if we practice.

We need boldness from our leaders to accomplish this transformation.

The British called Harry Lee the best Englishman east of the British Isles when he finished Oxford. He changed his name, converted to Confucianism and they wondered what happened to him.

He learned Mandarin Chinese and became Lee Kuan Yew, a leader who rejected Western values.

Asians are calling for Confucianism as they emphasize tradition. The Japanese are calling for Nihonjinron, Japanese values.

Why must we be stuck with the attitudes and values of the European, so-called Christian values, particularly since they have shown themselves to be bankrupt on many fronts?

We can achieve our aims not so much by modernizing African traditions as Africanizing modernity itself. We are the modern people. Our ecological values, relationships values, respect for others values are the keys to the future.


Conclusion

I recognize that humans cannot advance without answering some basic questions like, Who Am I? Why am I here? What is the purpose of existence? Who are we as humans, Africans, Ghanaians, Gas, Ewe, Guans, Akans, African Americans?

Religion provides compelling answers and often small communities of others who believe like we do. African deities and the Almighty God of Africa do that for us. They give us identity and direction.

We are the children of the Supreme God sustained by our ancestral connections, formed to glorify the best values of Maat, encouraged to assume responsibility for each other in a community of consciousness.

Failure to do this is a deviation, an abomination and we can only re-connect through rites of ablution--- making, doing or sacrificing time, money, energy in the name and interest of Africa. The concept of the gift is the idea, not what we give.

This may change given education, science, sensibility, scarcity, etc., but we need to sacrifice for Africa.
But our God must not be one of exploitation, egocentrism, conservatism and westernization. If so, we shall go to hell.

We must create our African personality and identity in art, dance, medicine, education, science, and religion, and if we cannot do it here in the land of Okomfo Anokye, Nkrumah and Du Bois, then it cannot be done in Africa.

If we do not do it here in the land of Yaa Asantewaa, then we can never be the hope of the hopeless.

If Africa cannot find its way, then I fear the prospects of the world.

But Africa will rise to throw off the vestiges of mental enslavement, and there shall be rejoicing among the Nananom nsamanfo. The ancestors will say: Rejoice! Rejoice! Let the Gods of Africa Rejoice!
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Professor Molefi Kete Asante is the author of 42 books, more than 200 articles, the father of Afrocentricity, and the creator of the first doctoral program in African American Studies. http://www.asante.net/

Here's an excellent lecture that was given in Accra, Ghana, by the great African-American historian, Professor Molefi Kete Asante.


THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN GODS - THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

Lecture at the W.E.B. Dubois Centre, Accra

by Professor Molefi Kete Asante

I am pleased that you have come to hear my lecture tonight and I want to thank the organizers of this event for their diligence and generosity. In particular I would like to publicly thank Dr. Kofi Anyidiho, and Executive Director Moore, the staff and the Board of the DuBois Center for making this occasion possible. I give praise to Nyame, Asase Yaa, and the Nananom nsamanfo for whatever clarity I am able to share with you.

I shall begin my lecture with a conclusion: Until an African leader publicly acknowledges, honours and prays to an African God, we Africans will continue to be viewed as pathetic imitators of others, never having believed in ourselves.

So powerful is the concept of religion when we discuss it in connection with civilization that to deny the validity of one's religion is to deny the validity of one's civilization. Indeed to deny one's religion as valid is to suggest that the person is a pagan, a heathen, uncivilized, and beyond the sphere of humanity. So to talk about religion is to talk about our views of ourselves, our understanding of our ancestors, and our love of our culture.

To establish my argument that we have a crisis in civilization because we have a crisis in religion I will make several points dealing with the themes of tradition, history, religion, and human action.

Traditions

There are no people without traditions and traditions are the lifeblood of a people. A people who refuse to express its love and appreciation for its ancestors will die because in traditions, if you are not expressing your own, you are participating in and expressing faith in someone else's ancestors. No person is devoid of an attachment to some cultural fountain. Whose water are we drinking?

Our African history has been a recent escapade of forgetfulness. We have often lost our memories and accepted the gods of those who enslaved and colonized us. This is something the Chinese and the Indians have fought hard to keep at bay. While we have often embraced our enemies' gods they have found those gods to be anathema to their interests. Show me the gods we Africans worship and I will show the extent of our moral and ethical decay.

Those who speak to us of Christian or Islamic morals have often been the very ones who had defiled our ancestors' memories and called out sacred rites paganism. Malcolm X once said that the world pushes the African around because we give the impression that we are chumps, not champs, but chumps, weaklings, falling over ourselves to follow other people rather than our own traditions.

The distribution of religion represents the distribution of power. African distribution is minimal and exists in a few places in the diaspora like Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica and the American South. The religion that people practice is based on the influences that have captured their imaginations. In the American South and the Caribbean and in South America one will often find the Yoruba religion. It is Africa's most powerful religious export to the Americas, but this is still a minimal influence when one considers the fact that others have imposed their religions on us and we have accepted the imposition often without a fight from our traditional leaders. Indeed our traditional religious leaders have often been hijacked by the material goods offered by the purveyors of these migrating gods.

History

The great African pharaoh, Narmer, united the two lands (TAWY) bringing 42 clans or nomes under one government around 3100 B.C. By this time already Africans had formulated the first human response to the unknown. If anything we knew God before anyone else, not because we were wiser but because we were first to be civilized.


Until [5,000] years ago all humans were black. Did they have an appreciation for the almighty? Did they formulate a response to the unknown? Of course they did; they were human and human before anyone else.

Our ancestors brought forth the first civilizations and gave the world the oldest organized cosmological explanations. Thus, Ra as Ptah, Atum, Amen, Khepera, Khnum - the many names of the one, the Supreme, created Shu and Tefnut, air and moisture, Geb and Nut, earth and sky. Then came Ausar, Auset, Nebhet, and Set. Ausar was killed by his brother Set and Auset put him back together with the assistance of her sister, Nebhet and her son, Heru, who avenged his father by killing Set. This is the story of good over evil.

The purpose was to create Maat, balance, harmony, justice, righteousness, reciprocity, order. These are the key concepts in any ethical system and the fact that they emerged first in the Nile Valley of Africa suggests that other ideas, related to these ideas, found their way into the very practices and beliefs of our people throughout the continent.

The deliberate attempt by the European to separate Africans from the classical civilizations of the Nile is one of the biggest falsifications in history. Only when we reclaim our history will we be able to see that the origins of many religious ideas are African. How is it that the parent has become the child?

Thus, not only do we have the earliest emergence of God, we have the first ethical principles, reinforced by proverbs, and refined in the oral and artistic traditions of our narratives.

The ancient name of Egypt was Kemet and it was the culmination of classical Africa's achievements in science, art, architecture, medicine, astronomy, geometry, and religion. The Greeks honored the Africans as the originators of the science and art practiced by the Greeks themselves. It would be the Europeans of the 15th through 19th centuries that would try to divorce Egypt from its African origin and deny Africa any role in civilizing the world.

The early Greek historian, Herodotus claims that nearly all of the Greek gods came from Africa. We know that the Greeks worshipped Imhotep as Aesclepius, the God of Medicine, and that the name Athens, Athena, is from Aten.

When Constantine in 325 A.D. took ideas from African spirituality and created a control mechanism at the Council of Nicea he was trying to organize a system for using African spiritual ideas. The early Christian church had to deal with the fact that Christians had used many African ideas, such as the son of God, eternal life, and the resurrection, in their religion. The sad fact is that since we have forgotten so much we do not know that we are the originators of religion.

The abandonment of our history, indeed the abandonment of our gods, the gods of our ancestors, have brought us deep into the quagmire of misdirection, mis-orientation and self pity. When the missionaries forbade our shrines and punished us in the Americas when we called the names of our gods and sounded our mighty drums they were looking for the Pavlovian reaction they finally got in millions of Africans: African is bad, it is inferior, it is pagan, it is heathen.

We often hear others cursing our ancestors in ways the Chinese, the Lebanese and the British would never allow. Why is this? Are we truly shamed by our military defeat? Can we no longer think about how right our ancestors were in exploring human nature and positing ways to combat the unknown? Cannot we create new forms out of the old mold or must we throw away the mold?

What would be anymore pagan than the wanton willful destruction of millions of Africans, Jews, Native Americans, and Chinese by Christian Europeans? How could white men pray to a god on the second floor of a slave dungeon while on the first floor they held our ancestors, yours and mine, in horrible bondage? What kind of religion denied our humanity at the same time they were raping our women, brutalizing our children, and demanding our wealth and our souls?

It is true that the idea of Christian names or Muslim names promotes and advances those cultures. Why must you change your name even if you chose to buy into a foreign religion? What is wrong with your name? Any religion that asks you to do what others do not have to do is asking you to abandon your mother. The question is, why would you abandon your mother?

Religion in General

What is religion but the deification of ancestors, the making sacred of traditions within the context and history. How can we honor any god who was used against us? The only people who accept alien gods are defeated people; all others honor and accept their own name for the Almighty. We must learn to appreciate ourselves and our traditions. What is wrong with the African God?

What would we think of a Yoruba who accepted Chinese ancestors as his own? We would find it quite interesting and wonder how it came to be. But what of Africans' acceptance of others' gods? Is there no tradition with these alien gods? Of course there is tradition with these gods! To accept the Jews' god or the Arabs' god or the Hindu's god and so forth is to valorize those histories above your own. Indeed, it is to honor the names in those myths and stories higher than your own stories, it is to love the language, the places in their stories above your own.

Why is Mecca, Rome, or Jerusalem more sacred than Bosumtwi? Quite simply, it is imperialism, not by force of arms, but by force of religion which sometimes comes armed.

Joel Kotkin's Tribes - a book about people ready for the 21st Century claims that only Jews, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and British are ready. These groups have some commonalities which include (1) strong sense of identity, (2) international network, and (3) a passion for technology.

He does not include any African community or ethnic group. In fact, he believes that the African people were best organized under the leadership of Marcus Garvey who believed that Africans were not only capable of achieving without the whites; Africans had to achieve without whites in order to be seen as fully participating in the drama of history. Kwame Nkrumah believed in much the same idea.

Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations claims that there are six major civilizations: Chinese, Japanese, Orthodox, Hindu, Western, Islamic. He says each one has a nation that is vanguard, deeply committed to its religion and history. Africa has no such vanguard nation and furthermore Africa has yet to emerge from under the cloaks of its interventionists. Of 53 nations only one nation is more African in religion than either Christian or Muslim. That nation is small Benin Republic, next door to Nigeria..

Benin is 87% popular traditional African Religion. But it is a small nation with limited influence in a propaganda fashion. As such we do not expect African traditional religion to play a major part in the civilization of Africa for [some] time to come, but we can begin to examine the questions, to raise the issues, and to interrogate our practices.

Let me explore African Religion with you to provide some common understanding.


African Religion

In the first place it is important that we call popular traditional African Religion everywhere by a common acronym, Ptare. This means that Akan, Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu and Shona are the same religion with different branches. Just as Christians may be Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics, and just as Muslims may be Mourrides, Sunni, or Shiities. There is no difference in speaking of Ptare as one religion and speaking of Christianity or Islam as one religion.

I believe that Popular Traditional African Religion everywhere (Ptare) is as old as civilization, indeed, it is much older than either Christianity or Islam. The major characteristics of Ptare are found in all of the traditions from East to West and from North to South. The fact that we have often misunderstood the legacy we have inherited is not the fault of those who left it; it is our fault for preferring the oppressors' legacy over that of our own ancestors.


The characteristics of Ptare include:

Creator God

Domicile of Gods - Presence, Shrine

Priest/Priestess of God

Devotee of God - medium (Noc??)

Herbalist - Pharmacist

Psychiatrist - mental harmonizer

Diviner - scientist, Hunters/explorers

All ritual in Ptare seeks a return to Maat.

Everything is one - we are a part of the whole and nothing is disconnected from the Almighty. That is why we recognize Mother Earth as well as Nyame.

What Europe sees and teaches as limitations in Ptare are really advantages:
No vast interpretative literary corpus to say what is and what is not - Ptare's interpretations are often dependent on a multitude of situations that demand attention.

No concentration on the material manifestations of the God's house. All temples started as shrines and from the shrine place people build other edifices. Buildings should have some historical or religious significance.


Advantages of Ptare

The ethical principles are more conducive to community, not so geared toward individualism. Some religions demonstrate their power by showing what they can build but this is only a matter of financial not moral wealth. Are you more civilized because you can build a nuclear bomb?

We must not be impressed by the things which can be created because we are human and have the same capacity and can create the same things out of our own minds. But our African gods do not advance destruction. They have never been gods of death, but of life.

The material manifestations of religion are not the wisest standard of how good god is unless your god is money. The new religions seem to bring schools and hospitals but we have always had those institutions without calling them by those names. Now it is time that the practitioners of Ptare explain the interrelationship of the traditions of ordinary life in the context of institutions. Our entire existence is religion. Our shrines are sacred places on sacred land given by the ancestors. Our health is interconnected to our spirituality.

We Africans have always believed in a supreme deity whether the name was Nyame, Oludumare, Abasi, Nkulunkulu, Woyengi, Chukwu, Mawu and Lisa. This is true although others have said we did not. They have confused a lot of us.

richie240:

I love that.

BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF PETER OBI THERE.

AlexBells:
Okay, I went back to read, it says static and not satanic. As far as you guys are ready to modernize your practice. Stop inhuman practices certainly, sooner or later a National traditional temple will be erected in Abuja. So you and other of your people scattered all over the world can be coming for pilgrimage and contributing to the country’s economy.

Like I said, it is public recognition that leads to evolution of religion.

Even in the olden days, practises were constantly being subjected to debate and discussion among the chiefs, priests, and elders.

Many practises were dropped and new ones adopted as a result of those interactions.

It is leaving them hiding in the bush that makes them static.

AlexBells:
Nobody is talking about Satan here, leave Satan out of this okay, even Satan deserve some respect. I just asked you a simple question does your proposed traditional worship center include stench blood and bacterial exposure.

Where did I mention satan?

I said ''Traditional religion is not static''.

I never mentioned satan.