umefanya ni cheke yangu yote!

To what extent have 'foreign' religions like Christianity, and Islam, or Buddhism, or any other non indegnous philosophical and spiritual system promoted the African and his identity?

Early conversion to Christianity of Ethiopians hasn't spared the country from operating below its nobility. Sudan and southern Sudan are still facing pangs whose end can't be foreseen. The great Songhai empire's decline was vastly a result of tension between a new culture contending with an African culture that seems to have prevented Askia the great from modernizing his army.

The Christianity that was brought by the Colonialists was not the same Christianity of old Ethiopia or Makuria. It's a kind of Christianity that ensured the African would stay as an inferior species.

Why then should such thinking be supported now?

Again, what does history show about the religions of Man, even across continents? Religious growth must come from within. Spirituality can't be exported or imported and retain its power. In America and Europe ancient religions like 'Celtism' and Wicca are rising why?

We must not take these things for granted.

Your assertion is not only false, but it also includes a concept that's 'irrelevant'.

Hinduism, and its various schools of thought, have allowed the people of India to develop their own ideas even now. Take the recent elections as an example. The BJP manifesto included the use of Vedic medicine, and yoga in their health care system. Isn't this a positive contribution of their indegnous thought?

While Christianity may not have taken anyone to heaven, the African can't seem to find a way to keep himself healthy in a way he understands, can control and develop without being fettered, or without losing his identity.

Kenyan patients, and even students will flock to India, because their doctors have fled courtesy of brain drain.

The explanation is even worse
Wacha tu ibaki juche

Show me how. Hahaha! And even show me if that caste system doesn't apply to the current pseudo-progressive thinking in the African mind.

Again, let me remind you that we are talking about indegnous cultivation and use of knowledge to resolve 'problems' and ensure the people involved have an opportunity to flourish, experience justice, exert responsibilities, and enjoy meaningful lives. By this, the caste system still qualifies.

What doesn't qualify is the African trying her best not to be African in dressing, in knowledge, manners, and tastes. That's one preposterous contradiction. It's condemning yourself to death. In the caste system, the untouchable can hope to be a Brahmin through reincarnation.

But poor African. What can he hope to be in the next life. Some say that in heaven 'we' shall be crowned differently. For some there will be golden crowns, others paper crowns, each according to merit. Now pause and ask, what crown can the African hope to wear? If his/her essence is so repugnant?

Some kinds of thinking offer the African no hope.

Tycho, been a busy day for me. I already have a headache and I dont want to make it worse!

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Can you prove your humanity to me? I doubt if a free human could say what you've just said. Why?

Your words affirm what you are negating. Nonsense masquerading as sense. The speech of the dead.

If, the African is better of with a paper crown, the Gospel of his salvation can't be true. Heaven has no justice. You're living in a fool's paradise. But you have no problem with it because you're in a suit and drinking chocolate and makati.

H.M. Stanley rejoiced that he could eat canned food, marks of civilization distinct from the barbaric African world.

I would like to digress a bit.

Throughout historical anecdotes, we have black people everywhere- China, Japan, Europe, India Egypt, Israel etc,

Then there was a massive migrations as the barbarian horde persecuted and enslaved them - mohenjo daro was destroyed by Hindus who created a caste system to discriminate against others (read color),

Arabs and Europeans in Israel, Egypt and now in Sudan resulting in dilution of race and color,
that's why we see Africans in Australia , Samoa. India, Arabia etc.

does that not explain why we fled and hid in isolated places e.g forests, deserts, islands to escape their hatred and persecution?

if you have traveled you will notice black people in places you would not imagine.

does this not beg the question, were we not there in those lands in the first place?

i believe we had a narrative and a civilized existence before the persecutions and this was destroyed when we run and just like the refugee who looses everything even his history, identity, and narrative in a few Generations we also lost ours.

We should try actively to search for our long lost history and try to identify with those black brothers out there who even themselves don't know how they ended there.

Then we might find some answers of who were are and why we are here at the present living the white mans life.

By the way Tycho the Bible belongs to us not the White Man