“It has always been one of your flaws to seek hysteria,” Moneo said. “I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria. The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria. The Atreides art is the art of ruling without hysteria, the art of being responsible for the uses of power.”
[...]
“How enlightened of you, Moneo! Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”
God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert
You are at the filter. Do not flinch.
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
"may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile"
~
"may I be I is the only prayer—
not may I be great or good
or beautiful
or wise
or strong"
"almighty God! I thank thee for my soul;
and may I never die spiritually into a mere mind through disease of loneliness"
Amen
~~EE Cummings
Kingdom of Aksum (330; Ethiopia) was basically the first country to adopt Christianity. Through Alexandria, but still before or near the same time as the ancient Greeks and Romans did.
It is not a foreign idea or religion to Africa, so its difficult to say that it is an outside divisive force.