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SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Chinazor

Chinazor Onianwah shared Onyeka Nwelue‘s post.
My friend, Stephen Schwartz, asked me why Africans can’t practice their original faith before the invasion of Europeans. It’s not that simple to offer an answer. When you are told that Jesus Christ, died for you, and he has no clue who you are. And you take a look at the narrative and it says clearly that he was a rabble rouser who disturbed the the financial interests of the Jewish religious leaders. That they found him so abominable they would rather have the pardon of a thief and murderer, Barabas, and crucify Jesus. How he died for me over here in my homeland thousands of miles from Judea, beats the hell out of me. But this fallacy has been etched in the heart and mind of Africans for over 500 years. It’s going to take another 500 years to erase it. Onyeka Nwelue, is among many, and I am in that number, on a journey to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery.
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Had a swell time today at Ideal Academy in Washington, DC. I talked briefly about Igbo mythology, from Ogbuide to ogbanje in Igbo cosmology, moving slightly to the rituals of saraka and uhie and tiny details pertaining the traditional Igbo religion. The teacher, Kevonte Anderson knows more about Yoruba deities; the Igbos, as we know, were quick enough to accept the Christian religion and became even more anglicised than the Europeans who had perpetrated their mindscape with their religion.

I shared kola nut in the class and explained what it symbolizes in Igbo traditions and cultures. However, there is still a shock: this Afro-Futurism as the young teacher calls it, is simply taught and not experienced. It’s not even practised. I think, personally, that the way Christians were able to permeate hearts was by letting people practicise the religion they preached.

I am going to find ways to introduce my religion to people and make them practicise it properly without any angst.


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