Are Africans Worshipping Foreign Gods?

The answer is yes, and the fact of the matter is that both Christianity and Islam are foreign religions. I do not need to have been there to know that but if you have read enough History books you will know. What's more is that almost the whole world fell victim of that. We know where Christianity begun. Even the Whites who claim Christianity to be their religion are wrong. It wasn't, isn't.

The Creation story is the most amazing thing in the Bible, according to me. How would we all have come from Adam and Eve when we know how different we are? I personally do not like a Chinese, and neither do I look like a Caucasian. That's because I was born in Africa. We are all very different and I cannot explain where we all came from, but what I can explain is that we are not descendants of Adam and Eve, at least not all of us in the world. The Creation Story is just a story like all Africans had their own. The Maasai of Kenya believe that Enkai (God) dropped them straight out of Heaven with all the cows in the world (they are pastoralists!). In other words, they believe that it is God put them here with all the cows, (beware if you happen to be a non-Maasai with some cattle) and all.

The Kikuyu, also spelt Agikuyu, or Gikuyu, had their own story of Creation. That one dawn Mwenenyaga (God) went down Mt Kenya (Kirinyaga) and decided to fill the land with people. He made Gikuyu, the first man and Mumbi, the first woman. He told them that all the land that they could see from where they were standing was theirs to till (this explains why they are such good farmers). He then gave them nine daughters and who I do not remember what they did next but that is how the Kikuyu came about.

Why then did Africans choose a different story of Creation and decide that it sounded better than their own. The Biblical story of Creation is the Jewish version of the Gikuyu and Mumbi. Simple and Clear. What amazes any sensible human being is that there are two Creation stories, not one, in Genesis. There is that one part where God created man first, and the other where man was created last (read Genesis). In the Maasai story, we do not have a conflicting story. It is one. It is so with the Kikuyu. It is so with all African Creation stories. Why then should you come and tell me that 'you know, you look like you might have come from Eden'.

We need to 'emancipate [our]selves from mental slavery' (Bob Marley) and go back to the beautiful African ways. Should a White read this, he will probably say that I should also leave my beautiful house and car, and this laptop I work with and all (I have nothing against White people). But look: Education and cars are things you can buy, and all come from my sweat, so I have the right to choose what to buy. Religion is deeper than education. It is a thing of the mind, the self. We should not allow ourselves to be lost even in our identity. I can buy a Ford (American) because it does not affect my identity. I can drive a Ford and still remain me. Africans are even more passionate Christians than those who supposedly brought it. And there are still so many sects within Christianity that it amazes you. There are some Christians in Kenya who worship so differently that you would wonder who to follow.

To continue with the point of Identity, we need to adopt African names. Are Western names so sweet as to make you just crave for them? As to drop your own and adopt foreign ones? I heard an African named Washington *******. What the hell does it stand for. Denzel Washington is fine. He knows where he got his name. Africans had their own way of naming and we should not go ahead and name our kids some foreign names that we cannot even pronounce. My neighbour's kid is named Hugh, and what is funny is that his mother calls him 'Huge'. I am calling for all of us to drop foreign names, because according to me, the greatest men had names that were really them: Shakespeare (who knows how he shook spears?), Obama (African as a name gets, ask Chris Rock), Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, and the list is endless. (Note: These personalities are not arranged in any order). What if we decided to name our kids African names? All other parts of the world do. If we do not like names from our grandfathers then we can adopt any African name: Obi, Okonkwo (of Things Fall Apart), Adebayor (West Africa has many wonderful, and nice sounding names) Kofi, Zuma, Oliech, Kimani (this is a universal name, used all over African and in the USA too). A better option is to have all Kenyans use Swahili names on their kids. Swahili is Kenya's lingua-franca and the Swahili have beautiful names: Aisha, Amani, and many more. These may sound Islamic but they are also Swahili. At least if we have to use names that are not ours let us use African names. We have more African names than you could imagine. What would you say if someone suggested you name your kid Chi Hu Wang? The reason we used those names is that the missionaries said you'll not enter Heaven with your African name, that it would give God a hard time to pronounce.

These foreign religions that swept the world by storm are even too deep for any human to understand. This is because they are foreign and those who understand them are those who should follow them. Do you believe in the eternal fire? Eternal life is not hard to get, but eternal fire? Why should I follow a religion that preaches death eternal roasting to anyone who will deviate from that path that is described as narrow and perilous to follow? I'd rather join the one that believes in reincarnation, than one that tells me that I'm going to burn, and that Heaven is not that big so most of the followers will burn forever. Whenever I sit and try to think of me inside that fire, one day, two, a week, two, a month, two, a year, two, forever; I just cannot understand it. We should have religions that teach God's mercy not his sadism. I can't believe that God would let you burn forever without any mercy. May be that is where they misinterpret. May be that fire is not that element but something represented metaphorically. Any how, we should not allow our heads to crack with such thoughts. Let us follow our own religions. In the Kikuyu Traditional religion, there is no eternal fire. The better.

The moral: we have our own religions, names, let us follow them. The foreign ones are way too hard to understand.

P.S.

Christianity and Islam are foreign for they started in the Middle East.