Africa's Spirituality: Taken or Lost?

Africans did not become Christians. Christianity was forced upon us.. When European missionaries

like Robert Moffat entered African communities in the 1800s, they didn’t arrive

as harmless preachers. They arrived with Bible in one hand and colonial power in the other.

They demonized African culture, dismissed our gods, renamed our children, and declared our

ancestors evil. Slowly, African identity was broken and rebuilt in a European image.

And here’s the part nobody wants to talk about: Religion is culture deified.

That’s why most Christians unknowingly behave like Europeans. Before Europe became Christian,

they already had Christmas, Sunday worship, holy days, even the names of