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Unfortunately, many Africans were so deeply indoctrinated through colonialism that they now do a better job of indoctrinating one another than the colonisers ever did when they were demonising our spiritual and identity systems.

If you want to destroy a people, you begin by destroying the spiritual and identity systems through which they understand themselves, their ancestors and their place in the world. Many Africans have been taught that their ancestors were demons, and they have turned instead to the ancestors of the Middle East.

They speak about the God of Abraham as if their own ancestors did not believe in God. They travel to Israel to touch religious symbols, yet show no such reverence for the spiritual and cultural heritage of Africa. They are a laughing stock.

This is one reason Africa is among the few places in the world where so many people have been taught not to believe in themselves, and they defend the dehumanising of their past.

We are either Muslims, following a religion that emerged in the Middle East, or Christians, following a religion that also emerged in the Middle East. Jesus was a Jew, not a Christian. Christianity developed after his death.

His name was Yeshua ben Yosef, later rendered as Iēsous in Greek and Jesus in English. His father or ancestor was Yosef, so he was Yeshua the son of Yosef, but Africans are taught that their ancestors were evil.

Christianity and Islam reached parts of Africa long before colonialism, in Ethiopia, Egypt and along the east coast. But in southern Africa, the faith most Africans practise arrived with the missionaries and the colonisers, and it arrived with a message that our own ancestors were evil.

We hold the Bible and call it the Holy Book, yet its books were written and compiled over many centuries by different authors in the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. The King James Bible was commissioned under King James I in 1604, partly in reaction to the Geneva Bible, whose marginal notes were seen as a political threat to the monarchy.

Look at Zimbabwe today. We have the Anglican Church, which emerged from England's break with Rome during the reign of King Henry VIII. Henry wanted his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled, the Pope refused, and Henry broke with Rome and placed the Church of England under his own authority.

Yet today, Zimbabweans proudly call themselves Anglicans. How connected are they to the dispute that produced that institution? Some reduce it to a story about a king who wanted another woman, but the real history involved power, succession, politics, theology and the authority of the Crown.

That is what indoctrination does. It makes people adopt identities and institutions without ever asking where they came from, what they represent or whether they have anything to do with their own history.

You can see the consequences in the comments beneath my original articles. Many people have not read the full article, yet they rush to defend ideas they have never examined, and they insult me for raising them. They were taught never to stray from the path laid out by Sunday school, the church and colonial education.

How can we expect others to respect us as Africans when we show no respect for our own history, culture and ancestors?

One of the greatest forces working in favour of neocolonialism is that many Africans do not read, especially in Zimbabwe. People read to pass examinations, and once they leave school, they stop. Such people are easy to indoctrinate. Place them in a group or a church, repeat the same ideas to them, and they will accept them without question.

That is why, when a pastor changes churches, many of his followers move with him. They follow the man rather than think for themselves. The pastor becomes the interpreter of reality, and what he says is what they believe.

This is one thing I admire about South Africa. Christianity and Islam are present there too, yet many South Africans continue to value their cultural systems and traditions.

That cultural confidence helps explain the country's sense of identity and resilience. Even though the African National Congress has had serious problems, it has governed better than most African liberation movements that had to fight for their countries' independence.

Pride comes from how you value yourself, your history and your cultural systems. But we must begin with the children. Many older people are too deeply indoctrinated, and some will never be willing to question what they were taught.

If Cecil John Rhodes or the missionary Robert Moffat could return today, they might be astonished at how well religious institutions have preserved colonial patterns of thought in Africa.

I make no apology for respecting my ancestors; my great-great-grandfather Mutaku, my great-grandfather Mukusha, my grandfather Chin’ono and my father, Rugoho, whose blood runs through my veins. They matter to me. Abraham is not my ancestor. Abraham belongs to the history of the Middle East.

Had Zimbabweans been colonised by Arabs or made sufficient contact with them, as happened in Zanzibar and other parts of East Africa, many of them would probably be proclaiming "Allahu Akbar" today and defending that faith with equal passion.

That is the strange power of religion. People often inherit the faith of those who conquered or ruled over them, and then defend it as though it had always been theirs.

Religion has long been used by political authorities to organise, control and govern societies. In Africa, it worked alongside colonialism, and its grip remains so strong that the colonisers could leave while the ideas they planted continued to reproduce themselves.

In our African villages, there is an Anglican Church somewhere, yet if you ask some African children who their great-grandfather was, they cannot tell you. They know about the Anglican Church, its bishops and its history in England, but not the names of their own ancestors.

That helps explain why Africa remains in such a mess with very little respect and is only seen as a place to go and loot. We cannot build confident societies while teaching our children to forget who they are.

Some countries, such as Rwanda, have tried to confront these questions by placing greater emphasis on national identity and social cohesion. Whatever one thinks of its politics, it shows that culture, history and identity shape the way a society is organised.

This is why I continue to encourage people to read. Read history. Read about religion. Read about colonialism. Read about African spiritual systems. Read widely enough to question everything, including what you were taught as a child.

If you do not read, someone else will think for you. And whoever controls the way you understand your history also controls the way you understand yourself.

African politicians have understood how easy it is to indoctrinate Africans, in the same way that Cecil John Rhodes and other colonial entrepreneurs understood that if you wanted to indoctrinate Africans, you had to use religion.

That is why you see failed politicians resorting to religion. They know that Africans suddenly become zombies when religion is invoked. They stop thinking.

If you look at the arguments that take place, you will see that we do not read. Whenever someone proposes something that we feel is intellectually beyond us, we start labelling that person. We say things like, “You think you know everything?” or “You think you are so smart?” We know that such people have been intimidated. You are saying things that are beyond them because they do not want to read.

The rest of the world understands this, if you want to take advantage of Africans, focus on things that require reading, and you will succeed. This has been happening for a very long time.
Ask yourself why the richest continent in the world is the poorest in terms of how its people live. Why does it attract people who come to loot it without investing in it?

When the Chinese go to Europe, they invest heavily because they respect Europeans, and Europeans respect themselves. But when the Chinese come to Africa, they do not respect us because we have nothing to hold on to as an identity. They say these things privately.

Fela Kuti captured this tragedy in Shuffering and Shmiling: “Them go follow Pope, them go follow Imam.” The point was not merely that Africans follow foreign religions, it was that we surrender our minds so completely that we follow other people’s spiritual authorities while forgetting our own ancestors, history and identity. A people who are taught to despise themselves will always be vulnerable to exploitation. As Fela put it, they will continue suffering and smiling.

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