In Africa, before the West desecrated our lands
with their uninvited visitation there was “no crime”. I know this will raise a
lot of eye-brows but it is a fact that African traditional religions made sure
of zero crime in the community not by having the best human security system but
by playing on the psychology of fear.
You are thought from childhood not to take what
doesn’t belong to you. You are thought the virtue of working hard for whatever
you earn. You are thought to be honest and noble from childhood because if you
steal thinking no one saw you, the gods see you and they more than often take
actions against such defaulters and in extreme case the relatives or the entire
village.
It was normal to go to the market and not
finding the seller by he’s goods, you leave the exact value of the worth of the
goods for the seller to find when he or she returns. The fear of Amadioha, the
thunder god of the Igbos striking down offenders with instant action is enough to discourage
the thought of stealing from the heart of anyone.
You can go to your farm put in your best and
when it’s time to harvest, you invite neighbours to assist in harvesting your
crops without fear of being robbed at any point. There were no fences to protect because there
was no need for that.
Christianity/Islam:
Today Africa has embraced two of the most
popular religions in the world and no one is safe to go outside anymore. The
West said our gods were evil, no existent, stones, etc but the acts of evil
being perpetrated by people now is unspeakable as people now go on rampage
killing fellow human beings with so much hate, rage that can only come from a
Whiteman, yes, the same hate and rage that they used against Africa, Africans and
Arabs have learnt fast and are now spreading the gospel of their teacher.
The gods that once protected them have now been
scorned and rejected for the Western religions which condemn stealing, robbery,
killing with one side of the mouth but with the other they preach contrary
messages.
So many Churches are built with stolen money.
Soldiers don’t go to war to kill fellow human beings without blessing from the
priest. Forgiveness has been abused to mean the absence of punishment so evil
goes on without restriction and they said the African gods were not active.
Let’s be realistic here and forget for a moment
the fact that the West has succeeded in making the Black man hate everything he
had. His past, his culture, his name and identity, his geography, his people,
his nation, and his gods.
It is not only the African man that has been
enslaved and reduced in value. The African gods also suffer racism because they
are not regard by the West and even Africans. In Asia, Buddha, Hindu and Islam
and in Europe we have Zeus. These are the major gods and are respected by the
West because the people resisted the West’s attempt to demean their gods but in
Africa the West succeeded and today because we have no value for anything
African they could trample on us, our gods and our history.
The West in their imperial attitude dare not
say evil against gods like Buddha who was a man but they would relegate Shango, the Yoruba god of thunder
to the demeaning statute of being an "idol". Shango, the great African god, who was a king and
spoke by emitting fire from his mouth.
They took away all these valuable elements that
make us who we are and this makes it easier to take away our future because a
man who has no past has no future to defend. You have to love your past in
order to appreciate your future.
People lie today with impunity. Imagine if the
African leaders swore with African gods rather than with the Bible or Koran, would
they still be ruling and looting the way they do? Would they have the heart,
the courage to lie before Amadioha or Shango without being struck instantly by thunder?
Political positions would not have been so attractive that many kill to sit on
a chair they all claim to be hot yet refuse to leave.
In traditional African marriages, the cost was
very low. Cowries or kobo was paid as bride price but today the huge sum one
has to pay for a wife can no more be termed a bride price but a bribe price.
White weddings have now replaced traditional weddings and traditional weddings
can no longer be called African marriages as they have taken more elements of
Western Churches wedding and cost.
A struggling young African, who by culture
should be married at 17 years or about now finds himself over 40 years still trying
to gather resources for marriage and the girls turn to women as time fly by
waiting for the young men to visit their parents and ask for their hands in
marriage.
They watch Western movies and have this wrong
notion that every Church wedding has to be expensive and many Churches
contribute to this with demands for certain requirements that end up costing an
arm and a leg for the struggling man.
The West also stole some gods in the guise of work
of art, knowing quite well that this “work of art” holds the belief system of a
people. It’s like kidnapping the president of America or the temple of God in Israel.
No one has the right to do that to anybody. Stealing or destroying the belief
system of a people.
Why come to a land uninvited and like a virus
destroy everything good infecting it with corrupt ways you call yours. Why can’t
African’s be African’s and Westerners be Westerners. Why must everybody be like
the West for the world to have peace?
