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A brief history of the song Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika Lord, bless Africa is an English adaptation of Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, a hymn composed in 1897 by Enoch Sontonga in isiXhosa. Enoch was a teacher under colonial education and religion, and this influenced the meanings he could entrench into the song. It became a powerful liberation…
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The comparison table below was drafted by a person, refined and expanded in DeepSeek, an AI application then revised by a person. DeepSeek kept using the name African traditional religion which is wrong because religion is religion. When asked to change the App replied ‘I appreciate the correction. The term “traditional” can be dismissive, homogenizing,…
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The image shows the intersection of African religion and Abrahamic religion. Can you pick some examples? The round-headed spiritual stick is found in African religion, so is the animal skin head gear. The while robes are characteristic of Islamic and Christian practices. In colonial religion, all African artefacts, symbols, languages, songs, dances, stories, ancestries and…
Meanings Karma is a concept found in many Eastern religions and philosophies, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It means that a person’s actions, whether good or bad, will eventually come back to impact them. Essentially, it’s the idea that actions have consequences. In a broader sense, karma helps us understand how what we do…
Case study 2 – mass murder in Uganda In Uganda, in the year 2000, a Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God motivated by Mary of the Bible set 500 people on fire until they died Kanungu District, and about 400 other bodies were found buried at different locations killed by stabbing…
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uAfrica religion Religion means the beliefs, practices, identities, artefacts and ceremonies that a society uses to connect their unborn, living, deceased and spiritual beings. The religion of Africa is called uAfrica or huAfrica), that is put together, the beliefs, practices and ceremonies of Africa are called uAfrica or huAfrica. It is derogatory, demeaning, colonial and…
The video and text below came from a television editorial by Anthony Afolo of New Africa Broadcasting Notwork (NABNTV) . You can cite as: Afolo, A. (2020). African’s Religion Economy. NABNTV. https://youtu.be/c0olK1db7RM?si=twY274cXHsMIKHVU Transcript African’s Religion Economy There are basically two economies in the world and every nation on the face of the earth fall under…
