African Spirituality and Cultures are not Religions

I am trying very hard to find a way to explain why I always say that Africa has never had a religion except those which were introduced to the continent by imperialists. And also, why I say that religion has nothing to do with spirituality and in that line, religion is a handmade of conquerors which is used as a tool for control and exploitation. Hopefully, this piece may contribute in helping us to gain some understanding.

In fact, religion is a technique or an institution designed and used by an oppressor to dominate and exploit his target group. It normally claims monopoly to an access to a superior God. Equally, it spreads the culture of those who control the religion by projecting such culture as the sanctioning way of life by the superior God. Finally, the goals of religion normally consists of attracting more and more people in order that it becomes a powerful worldwide movement (capitalism). It achieves this by spreading lies of fear particularly among children and infants in order to place a lifelong chain on their brain to prevent them from analyzing the validity of contents of that religion.

Religion is heavily structured with cultural superiority and inferiority concepts which are used to turn a group of people against their own culture and traditions, hence, tricking the oppressed to consider the culture of their oppressor as the superior way of life. For example, since European got hold of Christianity, European traditional marriage has become the acceptable Christian Marriage to the extent that in countries like Ghana, the original traditional marriage is now called Engagement. This has become so seriously to the extent that in some Instances, after performing or the traditional rights for marriage, couples are forbidden to have sex until they perform the Europeans traditional marriage. This case is no different from what is happening in many African Muslims communities.

On the other hand, spirituality is a practice at the individual level and it makes no effort to lure-in other people and turning that practice of spirituality into a mass-movement. However, in order to let you feel inferior in what you have, your colonizers have to put your true spirituality and their religious lies into one basket as if they are the same. 

In a true practice of spirituality, no one will go to another person to convince him or her to leave their deity and come and join in the worshiping of another deity because of its superiority!

For example, a person who has spiritual connectivity to Ogun deity in Nigeria will not travel to Ghana to tell observers of Nogokpo deity to leave their spirituality to come and follow Ogun because it is superior!

Today, you may not be aware that ‘God Almighty’ is a cultural superiority concept created by your oppressor to tricking you into seeing spirituality in the image of a man who does not look like you, hence, making you become a slave to that man forever.

What you have to know is that:
When someone changes your name; that is not spirituality but a cultural superiority!

When someone changes your believes and traditions; that is not spirituality but a total dominance!

When someone strategically targets your children and feed them with alien information of lies and fear; that is not spirituality but a deceit and mental damage!

When European and Arabic missionaries sailed to Africa with the God Almighty Concept, they were not on a spirituality mission, but on a mission of Economic, Political, and Cultural enslavement and dominance.

After all, those missionaries did not come to Africa on the back of God’s budgets but at the expense of state-funded missions with specific goals outlined for them to accomplish in the African Society so as to prepare the grounds for continuous enslavement and dominance over Africa.

To this point, I will like to say that, you should not be surprised whenever you see Africa leaders linings up in Europe and in the Arabic world to beg for loans to support their budgets. This is so because, as long as you accept an image that does not look like you as your savior, you will always go to those who look like your savior for salvation.

When we remove the chain of religion from our neck, we shall soon stand in our strength to develop our continent through our efforts and our intuitions.

My name is Kwadwo Agyei Yeboa, I was born into a religion, I practiced religion, I believed in religion until I decided to go a bit further beyond just ‘believing’ into ‘knowing’
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Africa will not be Developed by Foreign Investors

If Africans can’t find solutions to Africa’s Problems then Africa’s Problems have no Solutions at all.

Before Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his famous book ~The Prince in 1513, the norm in Continental Europe was that “Wars must be fought by mercenaries”. This means the European nations relied on foreigners who are skilled in fighting wars to defend and protect them.

In the Prince, Machiavelli asked: “what makes you think that foreigners will genuinely defend you?” In furtherance, he argued that mercenaries or foreigners fight for no other reason/incentive than the monies they are paid. By this, Machiavelli explained that if the only motivation for mercenaries to fight is the financial incentive, then a mercenary will only fight to defend a country only when he knows that he will have his life in the end to enjoy his money.
This means no mercenary will continue to fight to defend a country when that defense is at the cost of his life. For this reason, Machiavelli recommended to the European nations to establish standing armies filled with citizens and these citizens must be made to go to war to defend their countries whenever the need arises.

Why should citizens, rather than foreigners be made to go to war to defend the nations? Machiavelli posited that, whereas mercenaries have money as their main incentive to fight, citizens have lives as their insensitive to fight and defend their nations. As a matter of fact, when a citizen knows that he is fighting to defend and protect his defenseless wife, children, and parents at home, he will use his last blood to defend his nation as a means to protect these dear lives of his. It will, therefore, be hard for a reasonable man to preserve his life at war by allowing the enemy to run over him to destroy the dear lives he has left at home.

By taking this recommendation seriously, European nations have steadily grown very strongly since. In one of his military discussions, the French Napoleon Bonaparte noted that Machiavelli's assertion is the single most important military strategy over offered in history.

Though, the focus of Africa's development today may not be about organising army members and going to wars, yet, this advice from Machiavelli is still so important to us in our search for sustainable development path. The simple statement of truism here is that -we cannot rely on other men (foreigners) to develop our continent. Africa’s true development must be the duty of the African and not the responsibility of others.

We may not recognize but the fact is, yesterday's mercenaries are today’s foreign investors. They have one intention and motivation. If mercenaries couldn’t defend continental Europe, then foreign investors cannot develop Africa. Unfortunately, Africans and our leaders have come to develop the illusion of keeping all our hopes for development in these new mercenaries. We then go around chasing foreign investors to come and develop our countries and continent rather than building and developing local capacities and innovation to champion our own development.

Like mercenary who will continue to defend a nation only when his life is not in danger, a foreign investor will only act like he is developing our continent when he has enough profits to take away from our countries. It is unlikely that an investor will have the interests of our future generations at heart or will compromise today's profits for the benefit of the next generation. For example, a foreign road constructor will not choose to construct a road that will lasts for 70 years over a road that will lasts for 5 years if that will mean to compromise his profit up to 20% (because his main motivation is profit) but a conscious citizen will choose to construct a road that will last for 70 years over a road that will last for 5 years even if that will mean to compromise her profit by 50% (because her main motivation is the welfare of the next generation and not profit).

How can there be development when our countries are receiving as little as 10% on resources exploration by foreign investors on our continent?

My visit to Ethiopia gave me the greatest opportunity to learn so much about how development can be designed, supported, and executed internally on our African continent. I was surprised at how Ethiopia has been able to exclusively developed strong local financial system, telecommunications system, and construction and real estate system to push the country's recent rapid economic growth. Surprisingly, Ethiopia now has many well functional Construction companies who are winning contracts and working in many East African countries including Kenya and Tanzania.

We must know that we cannot chase the development path of others and ever become developed. If we do so we shall forever remain a developing continent trying to determine our lives based on what have already done. After all, we will always wait on others' innovations for our implementation.
To develop, we must look within, examine the problems in our society, and design internal solutions to address these problems by taking a close look at our own capacities. When we do so, we can walk into advancement by developing our own capabilities over time.

If Africans cannot find solutions to Africa's own problems, then Africa's problems can be said to have no solutions at all. After all, no free men have ever developed a foreign country except when they were slaves.

My name is Kwadwo Agyei Yeboah and I love Africa. You can always connect with me on Facebook to talk about Africa.

We must cure Black Ignorance with Black Enlightenment

In the world over, we discuss frequently, the cost of black ignorance without juxtaposing that to the value that will come along when we promote black enlightenment.

This black ignorance, which is indeed an injury to our community, is seeing to be significant in all our communities not just in Africa or in America.

It is this black ignorance that has kept us in a position where we know very well that our current position is inhuman, and yet we turn to believe that it is so desirable only for us.

Yes, black ignorance costs the black community billions of dollars in each major economic sector annually and yet we seem to care less. The subsequent realities are few narratives I have outlined to help us understand in a bit, how much it costs our community to be ignorant of ourselves, this will also help us to understand why we need urgent self-help actions and initiatives rather than relying on our governments or the system to bring the needed changes:

1. In reality, Footwear Company who may not give us an equal opportunity within its managerial, production, and distributing lines (these are the areas where the major share of the company's profit is spent) after its production, will only need to pay a few thousands of dollars to one celebrity who looks like us for advertising. The next morning we carry all monies which we have to invest in our collective development (in sums of millions) to this footwear company by way of buying this product which we may not need after all.

2. In Ghana and in Nigeria, there are well-functioning locally established automobile manufacturing companies; Kantanka and Innoson respectively. Governments of these countries ‘massagingly’ act like they are supporting these local companies only to turn around and purchase vehicles costing billions of dollars from the economies of their slave and serving masters. Are they not aware of the fact that the most important aspect of business development and sustainability is the market? Assuming that the products from these local automobile companies are not up to the standard expected by these governments (which obviously is not the case), wouldn't it be prudent for the state to still demand those products to ensure that these companies are able to get enough capital and resources to invest in research and product development to improve on the standards of their products, rather than sending those monies to economies to demand for finished goods? After all, development is a decision and determination that comes at the cost of short-term pleasure.

3. Whereas, the African Continent is said to be so rich in natural and mineral resources, the values from these resources that go into serving the interest of the indigenous African is estimated to be less than 12% from cross-sector average estimates. In some sectors, the local benefit value is far lower than this 12%. Since this proportion is highly insufficient to satisfy the abundant needs of the damaged African society, a few powerful class jump on it and use it to satisfy their hunger. From this scanty portion also, the power-class provide for themselves, a terror security system to secure them from the danger of revolt from the hungry masses. It is therefore not surprising that you keep asking how is it possible for leaders of European nations to sit in the same public transport whereas our leaders need a range of 300 Matter convoy before they can move around in the same country they have been voted for by the people they lead?

Indeed, the black ignorance is a huge money-making object in all sectors, from education to sports, and I can go on to examine each and every sector and bring out empirical evidence to show how damaging and alarming the situation is. However, the most important thing is not really the problem, but the solution.

If the black ignorance is costing us a billion-dollar in each sector, how much do you think black enlightenment will worth to, or bring to us from each of these sectors? Obviously, that will bring to us multiple-folds of what it is costing us today.

If this is the situation, what then can we do to help ourselves?

What if we start to look for opportunities from all our challenges (wherever there exists a challenge there exists ab opportunity)?

What if we start to organise ourselves into powerful sub-groups and start to work together and support one another in a more systemic and network faction?

What if we create common platforms for designing, production, distribution, and consumption lines by ourselves and for ourselves?

What if we bring together and join our knowledge, ideas, and expertise?

What if we come to know that the governments of ours and the system are only exploitative tools that will bring no change to us or to our future generations?

What if we make Black Enlightenment the focus and the new order and empower our communities through the sharing of positive knowledge?

What if we come together to build a Black World Community for ourselves?

Setting ourselves free is our duty and not anyone else’s responsibility.

My name is Kwadwo Agyei Yeboah and I love Africa. You can always connect with me on Facebook to talk about Africa.

The Great Zimbabwe: An African History Colonized by Europe

In the early 16th century, rumours of a mysterious fortress with gargantuan walls, abandoned in the African jungle, spread around Europe.

Surrounded by goldmines and sitting on a 900-metre-high hill, the city was thought to represent the summit of a unique African civilisation which had traded with distant Asian countries, including China and Persia.

Though the indigenous African have always know about this civilization they have built, a Portuguese sea captain, Viçente Pegado, was one of the first foreigners to encounter the site, in 1531.

To his surprise, of what he has seen in the African civilized community, he wrote: “Among the goldmines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers [is a] fortress built of stones of marvelous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them … This edifice is almost surrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the fashioning of stone and the absence of mortar, and one of them is a tower more than 12 fathoms high.”

Great Zimbabwe was constructed between the 11th and 14th centuries over 722 hectares in the southern part of modern Zimbabwe. The plan, construction, and governance during its flourishing days were all by the Bantu Speaking who migrated from East to the Southern Part of the Mother Continent.

When European Colinizers took over, they concluded that such an advance development couldn't have come from the indigenous African people and for many centuries, they attributed it to an unknown foreign group.

It only came in recently (in 2004), that a group of Archaeologists, Historians, and Geographers ended a long lasting study with a conclusion that the Great Zimbabwe civilization was solely built by indigenous Africans without any external or foreign influence.

Indeed, Colonizers colonized not only people and their resources, they also colonized history, civilizations, and thinking/minds. Many of these are still in chains which require our collective efforts to set them free.

Yes, no one can go to, for example, France and say, I want to examine your civilization and determine whether it was built by French, how disrespectful will that sound. But why us?

Rest not until you have no life to stand in for the war of life.

My name is Kwadwo Agyei Yeboah and I love Africa. Connect with me on Facebook let us talk About Africa.

Sally Hemings: the Negro Slave who produced Presidential Babies?

Sally Hemings the daughter of one Elizabeth Hemings . Elizabeth was the daughter of an English sea captain and an enslaved African woman. She had twelve children, six of whom were likely fathered by one of her masters, John Wayles, Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law.

Upon Wayles's death, Hemings was brought to Monticello , Jefferson's estate , with her children and she lived there until the end of her life.
Elizabeth Hemings's exact birthplace is not known, and very little is known about her parents. Her mother was described as a "fullblooded African" woman; some historians believe she may have been a woman in the records named Parthena. Her father was described as an English sea captain. The story of Elizabeth Hemings's infancy survives through her grandson, Madison Hemings...

Sally Hemings shared the same father with Thomas Jeffersons wife. Sally remained a house slave to her father and later was handed over to Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson was at Monticello at the likely conception times of Sally Hemings's six known children. There are no records suggesting that she was elsewhere at these times, or records of any births at times that would exclude Jefferson paternity.

There are no indications in contemporary accounts by people familiar with Monticello that Sally Hemings's children had different fathers.

Sally Hemings's children were light-skinned, and three of them (daughter Harriet and sons Beverly and Eston) lived as members of white society as adults.

According to contemporary accounts, some of Sally Hemings's children strongly resembled Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings's children: Beverly and Harriet were allowed to leave Monticello in 1822; Madison and Eston were released in Jefferson's 1826 will. Jefferson gave freedom to no other nuclear slave family.

Thomas Jefferson did not free Sally Hemings. She was permitted to leave Monticello by his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph not long after Jefferson's death in 1826, and went to live with her sons Madison and Eston in Charlottesville.

Several people close to Thomas Jefferson or the Monticello community believed that he was the father of Sally Hemings's children.

Eston Hemings changed his name to Eston Hemings Jefferson in 1852.

Madison Hemings stated in 1873 that he and his siblings Beverly, Harriet, and Eston were Thomas Jefferson's children.

The descendants of Madison Hemings who have lived as African-Americans have passed a family history of descent from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings down through the generations.

Eston Hemings's descendants, who have lived as whites, have passed down a family history of being related to Thomas Jefferson. In the 1940s, family members changed this history to state that an uncle of Jefferson's, rather than Jefferson himself, was their ancestor

Thomas Jefferson was the father of Eston Hemings, and that he was likely the father of all six of Sally Hemings's children listed in Monticello records—Harriet (born 1795; died in infancy); Beverly (born 1798); an unnamed daughter (born 1799; died in infancy); Harriet (born 1801); Madison (born 1805); and Eston (born 1808).

( *Note..there are no known pictures of Sally Heming . The image here is an estimate by historians as to what she may have looked like. As explained below, Sally was the daughter of a biracial mother and a white father. All children born to slave women were to remain in slavery and were often the slaves of their own fathers)

I am the Special One but Klopp is 'The Best'

The newly signed coach of Tottenham Hotspurs, Jose Mourinho has stated in categorical terms that he is not the best as the best reigning coach of today’s football world is Liverpool’s head coach Jurgen Klopp.

When commenting on performance comparison between Manchester City’s coach, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, Jose Mourinho recounted:

You can't be called the best when you cannot win without your best. He last lifted the UCL when he had Messi and Co at his disposal.

This is why I prefer to be called "The Special One", not the best. Klopp is the best. Look at what he has achieved with Liverpool . Who would have thought that Liverpool be a force to reckon in Europe?

And what I love about Mr Klopp is that he depends on African players, unlike his counterpart, who gets rid of African players wherever he goes".

Ancient ‘Egyptian’ Civilization was built in African by Black Africans and not Criminal Invaders

The invaders are trying so hard to paint Kemet (today's Egypt, after Arabic invasion) a colour that empirically and logically cannot match what this civilization actually represents!

The Kemetic Civilization was built in Africa by Africans; it was not built in Europe by Europeans nor Arabic-land by Arabians!

How can one conclude with unquestionable conviction that it was built by NATIVE AFRICANS?

1. By logical deduction and
2. By empirical evidences available

In this post, I am only talking about logical deduction; I will thereafter follow this with another post to present the widely available empirical evidences.

My first question, is there any group of people native to the African Continent apart from Black People? The obvious answer is NO! Though, there are different groups of people occupying many parts of the African Continent apart from Black People, however, none of these peoples are native to the African Continent. In most cases, these peoples are known invaders or migrants whose origins can easily be traced. An example can be the Arabians living in the northern African and Europeans in Southern Africa.

Can it be that these invaders built this civilization after their invasion? That is a possibility but only valid if these invaders have prior built such civilization in their native continents. For example, if before coming to invade Africa, these invaders have already built similar civilization in areas where they came from then it is more likely that they came with them, the technology to building this civilization on the African Continent.

In the case of Kemetic Civilization, neither the Romans nor Arabian invaders have anything similar to this civilization in their homelands.

Logically, no sound-minded men and women, will travelled to another man's land to build world's greatest civilization while their motherlands are empty?

Kemetic Civilization was built in African by native Africans and not criminal invaders who have nothing to show in places where they came from.

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