For Biko Agọzi ọ and Toyin Adepoju

[Obododimma Oha]

Profs. Biko Agọzino and Toyin Adepoju will enjoy reading this article, but some others on the list may:

https://humanparts.medium.com/why-african-spirituality-became-associated-with-satan-a16712cf9cdf

Please, enjoy and react, if you must. Thank you. 

Sincerely, 

Obododimma. 

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[Biko Agozino]

O jigbi jigbi, o gbujekwe.

Eskor Toyo taught us to leave religious sectarianism alone because religion is a free country where you believe what you choose and choose what you believe or not believe. Once you start debating the religious faiths of others, you tend to become sectarian. Once religion is politicized, the country tends to go to the dogs. So, we refuse to be drawn into sectarian debates about which faith is the best path, so long as oppression of others is not dressed up as religious faith. All we know is that all the Abrahamic religions of the Book originated in or near Africa before being weaponized by Europeans for the conquest, enslavement, and colonization of Africans. Demystify, decolonize and develop Africa.

Biko

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

thanks.

i'm acquainted, through Facebook,  with the writer and his father, whom i expect  taught him in africah spirituality, being him an expert practitioner in african and some asain spiritualities.

his mother is japanese and his father ghanaian i think and his cultural orientation bridges these worlds.

the prayer that opened the Haitian revolution as quoted in the essay is powerful but regrettably, i saw no reference to the Voodoo goddess Ezilia Danto, who is described, possibly by the Wikipedia article on the revolution, as the deity invoked as patron of the revolution.

on another note, in lagos i  saw a painting from a pentecostal church showing God as a European.

when will they have depictions of God as a Black man, i asked myself.

note that the older churches seem to have crossed that bridge-some of them are known for works of art like those by Bruce Onobrakpeya, that depict Jesus as an African.

one also notes, that, from Bolaji Idowu in his 1962 Olodumare-God in Yoruba Belief to Placide Tempel's Bantu Philosophy to John Mbiti's Africvan Religions and Philosophy to the more recent work of Nimi Wariboko, some of the most significant illumination on classical African spirituality has come from Christian priests.

toiyin  

[Obododimma Oha]

Quite true. But the aspects one would like Biko to respond to are (1) the criminalization of indigenous spiritual practices and 
(2) the enactment of laws against indigenous spiritual practices that had relevance to the justice system. One feels that Biko and others can educate us better on this conflict of laws and criminology. Remember the Okija experience in Nigeria. 

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[Gloria Emeagwali]

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