By David Maillu
Published February 26, 2023
This is a noble request for fundraising and for aid, which would enable the African (Neterian) Worship restore African Religion by according it a modern practical platform and recognition on the playing grounds of other world religions. It is a further appeal to all concerned well-wishers in the implementation of that noble cultural reconstruction. Before Africans were compelled to become involved with world religions, they had their own religion which fitted well into their culture. Unfortunately the foundation of that Religion was destroyed by colonial administration and the cultural storm from the colonizers. Those forces subjected African religion to mutilations, misinformation and destruction that swept throughout the continent for generations. As of today, with social damaging consequences, it is a Religion which has been pushed into the backyard of current imported cultural values. It is a dying culture awaiting complete death and burial.
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Considering that religion is a product of people’s culture, there is no way one can talk of peoples’ development without their religion. In traditional Africa religion was an integral element of socio-economic and political stabilization for the people. Religion is the spiritual Mother of Africa and African religion is the foundation of African thought. The uniqueness of African religion is that, in Africa, everything is religion; hence, the way you move, where you sleep, what you eat, your dreams, dream, your birth, growing up, sex, marriage, death, how you perceive life, music, dance, social life, science, art and the host of the others – all have religious connection.
Furthermore African religion is part and parcel of human cultural heritage. African religion belongs to all the peoples of the world too. Its destruction and its present weakness are not only losses only to African victims but also a loss to the universal brotherhood philosophy. Its restoration, therefore, would be an invaluable advantage to the body of universal contributions of cultures. The voice of religion that the African has lost in that destruction can be reclaimed in the restoration of the destroyed foundation.
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For instance, the destruction has been so bad that in the South of the Sahara, the school curriculum has no slot for African religion; but it has slots for Christianity and Islam religions. In order to give the religion the noble position it deserves in the community, it has to be made practical. It must be a registered Religion. It must have physical bases in terms of secretariats and worship places. It must publish its views. It must engage community in solving problems and planning the future for the present and future generations… The extraordinary good part of African Religion is that, after millenniums of oral deliberations, it now has a published Holly Text under the glorious efforts of scientists who compiled that the most-long-awaited manual titled: KA:Holy Book of Neter.
