Page 16 - A People Called Afrika

Anything outside of that, for us, is just another waste of time.

Many who have written about Afrika from an Afrikan per-
spective tend to do so with some form of disdain for God
and dishonor for Christ, terming both of them as the creation
of the white man and tools for the deception and manipu-
lation of the unsuspecting black man to relinquish his land
to foreign oppressors. Others have written that Afrika was a
dark and hopeless place, wallowing in filth, ignorance, back-
wardness and the practice of the dark arts, before the white
man came to redeem her. We appreciate every person’s per-
sonal opinions about Afrika and her spirituality, but to write
about an Afrika whose spirituality is outside of God, for us, is
nothing but mindlessness, and to claim that Afrika never had
God before the white man came makes a lie of the absolute
Truth that is God. For the questions will be, how do you talk
about the spirituality of Afrika, or that of any other society,
outside of God who is both Spirit and the creator of spirits?

How do you talk of a God Who brought Abraham, Joseph,
Jacob (Israel), Jesus, to Afrika and the redemption story to the
Ethiopian Eunuch to the Afrikan Kandake, long before the
white man understood what civilization meant, and then still
claim there existed an Afrika outside of God? Such an attempt
would either be a strong indicator that we are not thinking, or
that we are so caught up in our pride that we cannot look be-
yond our veils of personal opinions to see that an Afrika without
God is simply not possible. We can give Him whatever name
or concept we want to give Him or even try to make Him look
like a creation of man, which He isn’t, but the fact remains that
Afrika does not exist without Him and is going nowhere with-
out Him. God for us is not a concept that is written in the Bi-

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