Rediscovering Africans | By Morufu Smith
Rediscovering Africans | By Morufu Smith.
Religion has been a victim of human manipulations since several centuries ago. When Education was supposed to be what was introduced to Africa by the Europeans, Religion was the motive, though it wasn’t bad in itself. How the Europeans were able to deploy Education and Religion to enslave the minds of Africans should be a study in higher citadels of learning. Education and Religion were presented as enemies that couldn’t cohabit in the same mind when the reverse is the case. They wanted education to reside in a mind already manipulated by the deliberately doctored Religion. Whereas, Education should be the vehicle that should drive Religion to better understanding of differences in human faiths.
The same European ancestors who took African ancestors through Transatlantic slave trade to Europe and the Carribbeans deployed Religion to hypnotise the present-day Africans to believe that their ancestors did so much evil that translates to generational curses for today’s generation of blacks. Why didn’t the evil of slave trade that the white ancestors did translate to generational curses for their white offsprings? Does this awaken anything in your reasoning?
So, two entities – Religion and the Blacks – deserve to be saved from the age-long conspiracy of stereotyping ancient Africans as evil and modern generation of Africans as sufferers of their ancestors trumped up evilness. And, who’s going to save Africans aren’t the same whites who associated everything evil to black ancestors. Africans have a duty to save themselves from the clutches of borrowed mentality. The best way for the blacks to rediscover themselves is to return to the embrace of their indigenous languages.
“Èdè ni kẹ̀kẹ́ ìhìnrere tó ní okun àti agbára láti dá gbogbo ìkólọ àṣà àti ìṣe aláwọ̀ dúdú padà. Gbogbo akitiyan èèyàn dúdú láti rí ara wọn he pada yóò jẹ́ òfúùtùfẹ́ẹ̀tẹ̀ áásà tí ò ní kánhún tí Èdè wọn bá fi di ohun ìgbàgbé.”
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