The metamorphosis of Africa’s problems: Africa, a hiding place of the Messiah (Part One)
7 min readBy Kur Wel Kur,
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Toss a question to the Australians’, Americans’ or British’s children or even to one-sided, informed adults in these countries for what they know about Africa and they will amaze you with words such as poverty, wars, diseases (HIV/AIDS), corruption, dictatorship, forests with exotic wildlife and over population. You immediately forgive them for these strings of humiliating associates because the media portray Africa as such. And yet, the Africa offers journalists (from the West) with lots of options: its beauty in weather, Africa’s exotic forests, innocence of Africa and the (root) causes of Africa’s problems today.
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Africa, the God given-treasure to Africans’ descendants. You or all, can argue that the continent represents a blessing to its natives and those who in a goodwill, come to it (Africa) for the purpose of humanity. As you, count Africans’ blessings on this cradle land of the humans, a creation site; Africa proves to you that God physically lived (Jesus, the baby came to Africa for asylum) here and He continues to exist here in spirit!
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Regardless of trillion of problems, Africa represents in the eyes of the world today, Africa, the mother, laid billions eggs and continues to laying them, which go direct into auto-destruction or waste of selves inferiority complex. An inferiority complex rooted in early years of Christianity and Islam propagations in Africa. Therefore, Africa (mother) will reach menopause soon; not a menopause of not producing altogether, but a menopause of producing as a surrogate.
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Surrogacy, produces children with three ways relationship (two women and a man) by using in vitro fertilisation (IVF). All pregnancy problems: morning sickness, swelling feet, aching back, losing of appetite, bulging belly with ugly stretch marks and unhealthy dryness bog down the surrogate(mother) who won’t hug the baby after delivery; while the owner of the ovum strides free with the benefits of the new baby whose blood and fluids belong to another woman! In this sense, follow me in the metamorphosis of Africans’ problems. Metamorphosis, a life cycles of insects such as locust; they pass through stages (egg-pupa-nymph-adult).
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The article will discuss the cycles (metamorphosis) of Africans’ problems in lights of the religion/ social affairs (part Ⅰ), economy {(trades) part Ⅱ}, politics {(Scrambling of Africa) partⅢ}, Africans’ health {(why Africans’ lives, in term of health, not in their own hands today?) part IV}.
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Part Ⅰ
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Europeans’ and Arabs’ evils visited Africa in an egg stage; in this stage, they came with the Bible and Quran. Hypocrisy of the highest order, the books of the ages shouldn’t cost a dime but it cost Africans fortunes: LAND WITH EVERYTHING! For scrambling of Africa, the missionaries in both religions prepared the ways. With Islam propagation, Arabs occupied the northern Africa to this day. They transported slavery to the doors of Africans; so Europeans and Arabs’ settlers, practised any cruel thing they wished with the Africans under armguards of their mothers’ countries and with the help of missionaries who preached peace and sharing things in God.
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This part (part Ⅰ) will discuss how religions changed the mindsets of Africans in their own beliefs, culture, and why religions caused all evils we see today?
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Religions and Africans’ beliefs
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Africans practised the worships of multi-gods for very long time; they popularised themselves with gods such as the ‘rain god’, ‘fire god’, or curse god; they sacrificed birds like chickens, animals: goats, sheep, pigs and cows. In theirs gods, they found peace, order and blessings. Wars contrary to peace, Africans considered them as curses for any abomination committed by a member of a family, sub-clan, clan, sub-tribe or the whole tribe. This when Africans invoked gods to lift the curse. For many years, God knows how many, Africans coexisted with themselves; though occasional conflicts existed, but horrific disorders like what you observe today occupied elsewhere.
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However, when missionaries and Arabs came with Christianity and Islam respectively, Africa changed forever; it changed in term of beliefs. The two religions viewed Africa with its natives as a battle ground; both religions preached one God’s faith (monotheism) but disagreed on some basis: the existence of the original sin(Christianity), Islam does not acknowledged the sin committed by Adam and Eve, Jesus as a son of God (Christianity), Islam rejects this assertion because the Quran says, God gives birth not and no human can give birth to God, crucifixion (Christianity), Islam denied it; Jesus transferred his similitude to other person next him and the Romans crucified that person instead of Jesus, some Muslims claimed! So the Christians and Muslims submerged in the religious competitions.
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The Islam altered the Africans’ beliefs from North Africa, West Africa and parts of East Africa especially at the coasts such as Dar el lam (Tanzania) and Mombasa (Kenya) Mogadishu (Somalia), while the Christianity rooted in the main land of Africa. Whatever teaching in Quran about one God won’t allow me to incorporate my thoughts in it because of my naivety in Islamic faith; however, my critiques will zero in at the misinterpretations of scriptures in the Bible by early missionaries.
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For sure, nothing wrong with believing in one God because most Africans especially Dinka believed in the “Duchiek” (the creator) so at the outset of the other gods invocation, the Dinka invokes “Duchiek” and then the likes of rain gods or fire gods follow. However, religions, Christianity and Islam came with not only the Quran or Bible but with their cultures, languages and civilisations, which poisoned Africans to this very day.
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Culturally, Africans embraced either the Europeans’ or Arabs’ cultures; you identify this in their dressing codes. The North, West and some East Africans dress like their brothers in Islam; though Africans incorporated their distinctive designs in dresses such as Africans’ dress in West Africa, the holistic design (of the dress = abaya) remain Arabs’ design. While, Africans in the Christianity settings, dress like the Europeans. Apart from architectural design of buildings, their worship buildings: churches and mosques, both religions drew lines of hatred among the Africans in the norms such as marriage (how many wives to marry) or who to marry!
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Both religions disagree, in a wide range on marriage; Islam encourages polygamy (one can marry up to five wives), whereas Christianity strongly discourages with it (polygamy), so one man, one woman. In parallel, both religions propagated their beliefs and values; while Africans who became Christians, whom in their traditions, obliged themselves in marrying many wives felt marginalised by Christianity. Although, Africans practised polygamy, many communities of Africans understood the benefits of encircling yourself with many wives and children as a fortune out of reach; only the rich people enjoyed it because wives and children cost riches. So before, poor people barely could afford a wife.
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Why religions caused all evils we see today?
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Humans always behave humans, whether missionaries or sheikhs; humans’ egos, desires and lusts come to light. Missionaries taught the Bible’s teachings to Africans; however, their deeds taught Africans different things. Africans adopted either the Europeans or Arabs’ values; thus losing their cultures. As people without cultures, become people without identity, Africans became gullible so anything from Europe or Middle East represents appropriateness or acceptability. A terrible brainwashing, which goes on to this day!
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My dear reader, I bored you with the histories you mastered than I come close; however, I passed you on usual roads with usual landmarks, usual signs and with usual same faces in the histories of your dear homeland(Africa) to show you how simplicity turns into complexity. Remember, the missionaries swore to your fore parents that they (missionaries) would teach the truths, the ways and the lives of people (with Jesus spear-heading these people) in the bible. So what happened to this promise?
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As a hint to you, in the Old Testament, Lot pleaded with the angels of fire to spare the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah if he persuaded ten people to repent their sins; the angels gave him a liberty of doing so; however, the man of God, came back empty hands. They (angels) ordered him to grab his households (wife and two daughters), leave the cities and never glance back; his wife did the contrary, there stood a salt mould! My dear reader, another story that you know but I come this far to offer you an idea that homosexuality contributes to nothing tangible except death by fire!
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The super powers once again transported another evil, homosexuality through surrogates (African brothers) to your homeland. Not my intentions to over work you (which I already did! I apologise.)in reading one more paragraph of the lists for countries, which received threatening messages such as ‘we will withdraw our aides if you don’t legalise or tolerate HOMOSEXUALITY’!
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To rest this part (partⅠ), please find out these countries in your homeland but remember the homosexuality is a metamorphosis of how many wives one can marry or who to marry as propagated by missionaries 9 centuries ago!
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