Africa must begin to ask hard questions.
How did a continent that fiercely resisted invasion suddenly learn to turn the other cheek while its land was stolen, its kings dethroned, and its people enslaved?
Imported religions did not arrive in Africa innocent. They arrived side by side with the gun, the chain, and the flag. While the invaders took the land, religion was used to take the mind.
Africans were taught:
Obey authority, even when it is unjust
Suffer now, reward later in heaven
Questioning oppression is rebellion against God
Your ancestors were pagans, your culture is evil
Resistance was rebranded as sin. Submission was rebranded as holiness.
Traditional African spirituality empowered people to defend land, honor ancestors, protect community, and resist injustice. But colonial religions redirected loyalty away from the soil and toward foreign altars, foreign gods, and foreign powers.
Today, many Africans defend churches and mosques more fiercely than they defend their resources, cultures, and sovereignty. We fast and pray while foreign corporations loot. We shout “amen” while politicians sell nations.
This is not an attack on faith.
It is an exposure of how faith was weaponized.
Religion that teaches obedience without justice is not divine it is political control.
Africa does not need blind obedience.
Africa needs conscious belief, cultural memory, and spiritual systems that stand with the oppressed, not the oppressor.
Until Africans reclaim their minds, no amount of prayer will bring freedom.
Deprogram the mind. Reclaim Africa.
