Yoruba traditionalists need to sue on what grounds?
That a religious organization expresses its tenets through art?
This glorification of "African Spirituality" only signals ignorance of the true nature of ATR.
Historian Elizabeth Isichei noted that in the eighteenth century, Asaba;
There was a customary chiefly ascension rite involving the killing of two slaves, and additional killings at the funerary rites of chiefs.
This means that human beings were killed on a large scale for politico-theological reasons.
Furthermore, she notes other practices that stemmed from ATR before missionary contact reformed many of them:
Infanticide. The abandonment of twins.
Isichei reported that in the Igbo-speaking region in 1879, after "a missionary attack on the practice," Samuel Ajayi Crowther remarked:
"This is the first year that a direct attack has ever been made against heathenish superstition."
Should we talk about the moral-legal jurisprudential practice of truth-seeking that involved taking a toxic substance, the Esere Bean, in Calabar?
In a nineteenth-century episode reported in a Cambridge documentary chapter on Old Calabar, the ordeal is presented as mass-lethal:
"At the death of King Eyamba in 1834," roughly fifty family members "seemed to have taken the esere bean ordeal," and "forty died."
This is the "African Spirituality" that many now glorify.
You have no idea what you are calling for.
The increase in ritual killings witnessed in Southwest Nigeria over the past six years is consequential to African herbalists using human parts in concoctions for 'Yahoo boys.'
There are rituals in which an entire human body is burnt and turned into powder, then mixed with oils that the Yahoo boy applies, supposedly to increase his chances of successful fraud.
I know this firsthand. I grew up in Ife.
Whenever people died, say, a suspected thief was publicly lynched, people would come, cut up the corpse, and take parts of it.
Why? They wanted to use human parts for charms. Where do they go to make these enchantments?
African traditionalists.
African spirituality is inherently ritualistic, and morality is not atomized to the individual but to the community.
This was why it was easy to kill some people for the 'good of the collective' in pre-colonial African society.
Christianity came and introduced the sort of morality that universalized moral worth and conferred inherent moral worth on the individual.
African Spirituality is demonic, and it should not be espoused by anyone.
So, we thank God that Mount Zion has done an incredible job of shedding light on its barbarism.
When Yoruba movies portray ritual killing for money as socially acceptable, no one sues them.
Mount Zion will go on and go up, by God's grace. Amen.
To God's glory.
@TheSerahIbrahim She simply said she was not going extra.
Meaning she will just play her part and not go overboard and you are pissed?
For a country that healthcare workers are already doing extra to keep it going?
Make Una get out with this virtue signalling.
@WurzelRoot You have no right to say this shit. Have you read about franchoohone countries in Africa and how they are still tied to France. Colonial masters merely left physically. They are still there in other palpable ways.