Colonization, Religion, and the Manipulation of African Beliefs.

What tomorrow will unfolds, nobody knows which is why, it is common in the Yoruba ancestral culture that, a Diviner must consult the Orunmila in every 5 (five) days to ask about the upcoming proceeding.

I begin this writing challenge without knowing the challenges therein, maybe I should have consult the Oracle. Yesterday was the first day of the challenge and it was just full of rants from the beginning till end. Well, In today episode it gonna be mind blowing and bitter truth.

The current trends in Nigeria society is fading up the ancestral cultural behavior, although it has been depreciating right from the onset with the introduction of western religion via Islam and Christianity.
The Westerners, brought there religion together with their culture to fashion and reshape us in there own way. They make baseless ideas and opinions to turn us against our ancestral ideology, and background.
The practice of believing or worshipping Omnipotent must come in a clean way, but in some parts; it was read that Colonizer brought Christianity through slave trade, and it is allegedly said that Islam is spread in the East through conquering of sovereignty with wars.
This are contemporary issues which are still happening nowadays with some that are spicy to change the older narratives.
The current module operandi is discrimination to make sure religious center become a profit generating platform where members can partakers to attract non members to join. This is one of the tool that is being used nowadays within the church. The Arab are now using this same ideology in a different way, through provision of grant for the construction of mosques in various community for members to worship in their society.

The African society is very easy to manipulate and we have little or no interest in ourselves or our background. This is why, most of the laws, doctrine and morality of our land, laid down by our ancestors to guide our conduct, decision and caution us are considered as superstition and laws of the Westerners cum Easterners are considered as divine and must be duly followed.

Many scholars have begin to unravel the secret and make clear interpretation of Westerners and Easterners culture embedded in the religion which we follow blindly and left our own.

It should also be on record that, modern socialization is also a tool that is fading way our culture as the youths no longer have regard for our culture. They believe that everything is of old, and new things have come to set in. As they were polished and manipulated by the modern civilization.

I will have to end today's episode of the writing challenge here, and continue thereafter tomorrow. Yesterday was full of rants and all over, so today contains something worthwhile. Therefore we can't say, what tomorrow will unfolds. Unless we consult the divination.

Thanks for reading through. I thank you.

Day 2 out of Day 30.

Anwo Sunday Adedeji Djfocus
2/06/2024