May the wind be at your back
May the bad be in your past
May the kids take all your good
And your wife have class
And you realize your goals
#powercircle
The 'Con-VERSION'
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"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had their bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. ['Close yourself eyes, let's pray...'].When we opened them, they had the land and we had the bible."
-Jomo Kenyatta, 1st president of Kenya.
'The Christendom church was the backbone of the trans-Atlantic slave and the later colonialism in Africa, which was followed by 'neo-colonialism' in our times.' Most of the slave ship captains and slave traders were 'good Christians.' In October of 1562 CE, John Hawkins, captain of the slave ship named "The good ship Jesus,' made two voyages to the west coast of Africa in order to capture Africans and sell them in the plantations of the Americas.
He insisted the crew "serve God daily" and "love one another." He became so rich after his first voyage that Queen Elizabeth I, offered to finance his next venture. She provided him with the ship named, Jesus. He was so successful and brought back great dividends that the Queen made him a Knight. Both the kings, queens, royal houses and the Christendom churches participated in the slave trade.
"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the holy scriptures, both by precepts and by examples." - Rev. Richard Furnan, president of the S. Carolina baptist convention in 1823 CE. This is clearly stated in the bible(eg. Leviticus 25: 44- 46, Ex. 21: 20, 21 and in several places in both the bible and the Quran which was a tool of the Arab slave trade that lasted for over 1000 years).
The papal bull (Romanus pontifex) that was issued by Pope Nicholas V in 1455 CE, giving Europe the support and authority of the Roman Church, concerning the enslavement of Africans, was a clear declaration of intent.
It is hard for the African today to understand that, Christendom and Islamic ideology was "a 'trojan horse' of Arab and European imperialism." Africans today, were born into the after effects of the initial stages of the Arab and European imperialism and had not taken the time to look at history through critical lenses.
The African does not know that, the Arabs had a 'king-size' grudge against the Africans: for in ancient times, all of the Arabian peninsula were colonies of Africans.
And it is hard for the Africans to understand that there was no Europe in the world when Africa ruled the World in peace. Arabs are an 'AD people' and not a BC people. Everything about what formed Europe began in the 8th century CE, with Africans at the centre of it all.
The African do not know that, European barbarian tribes like the Anglo-Saxons(Brits from the 5th century CE) Almain, Franks(French), Visigoths, Varangians (some Scandinavians and Russians today), Goths( Germans), Magyars, Picts, Ostrogoths, Umbrians and Oscans etc which make up Europe today had nothing to do with the foundation of any major religion in the world today, nor did they have anything to do with the foundation of the civilization of Rome or Greece.
But it most be noted too that, this is an European era, that had lasted for the past 300 years. Other eras lasted for thousands of years and went into the ashcan of history. Europe just took the Christian ideology that had its roots in Africa, 'repackaged' it and then doused it down on the Africans who did not take the time to ponder on it and just "took-in both the hook, the line and the sinker." - Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan. "What is Christian about Europe anyway?" -( Dr Ivan Van Sertima).
European barbarian tribes had destroyed everything they had from the Romans in the 2nd century CE and shattered Rome from within in the 5th century CE, then descended into a dark age(back to primitive life, when they killed almost all wildlife, destroyed their environment and shattered human social relationship to a point that "a dog became a man's best friend")….
#Africa
AFRICA CIVILISED EUROPE TWICE
Africans civilised Europeans - twice. Watch Pan-Africanist writer John G. Jackson explain how.
First, he notes how the Greeks learned from Black Egyptians, and passed on their knowledge to the Romans. Then, after the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe entered the so-called ‘dark ages.’ These were not as ‘dark’ in terms of knowledge and learning as the name suggests, but European culture was transformed by the arrival of the Moors from North Africa. Their conquest brought with it ‘light’ - so much so, claims Jackson, that the Moors re-civilised Europe.
Western textbooks often ignore this inconvenient side of the story, as it grates with their implicit ‘victor’s’ narrative that Europeans are superior. Jackson urges Africans to write their own histories. Only in this way can a truer, more inclusive and comprehensive narrative gain traction - one that acknowledges and respects Africa’s phenomenal contribution to world civilisation.