With this knowledge the conscious african educates himself relevantly, within the context of solving his problems , fully knowing his enemies. The women your people raped the men they murdered simply because they were rebellious. They perpetuated slavery, especially the Catholic Church. My friend, I fear your bitterness is clouding your reason, short-sighting your descernment and stopping your ears. You will do better service to afrikans by exposing european hypocrisy than preaching the “good” your missionaries didnt do. And yes! 177 Bravington Road, London W9 3AR One thing brother Bunmi you are forgetting, a simple sorry cam heal the mind. Freedom is not just action, it is attitude. And, truly, All of us are slaves in some form or fashion physically. You know the weakness and the hurt, the pain and the sorrow already so you don’t look back at the symptoms but the root issues, then you build in the present for future advantage. That is how a people must build every Relation(ship), every friend(ship) every community, family and individual life. @lancehostetter.you are actually over supporting the role of missionaries…revisit your tin of knowledge & come up with better response,you are naive. Btw. All proof is not Truth and all Truth is not yet proven. Exceept for the 10 commandments and some others explicitly goven by God, or the prophecies, nothing is not subject to examination and interpretation, especially in the light of the Lord’s words you reproduce. As we are playing the “us” and “them” game, my understanding is you will never understand what colonization has done to “us” because you are one of “them.”. Introduce new methods of farming? I repeat “2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” So if he lives in you then you are FREE! Whether we are cognizant, which is the desireable condition, or oblivious of it, which destroys us and is the reason africa and africans are in the condition we are today. Rather, you will be the overcomer! Tribal warfare, genocide, and human sacrifices plagued African for generations. He knew a better WAY. Who told you that we were not racist. Pingback: Religion privileges – Word of Princess. Missionaries came with the attitude that all things European were superior to all things African. The effect of Europeans on the Continent of Africa is felt till this day. In the end everyone forgave everyone over time, But come on it has been like over a hundred years since slavery. If He is your strong foundation, of whom are you afraid? In Uganda for instance Dr. Adam N. Kimala noted in his book “Buganda Gye twasubwa”, literally the The land called Buganda that we missed”; that our great Ancestors were forced to collect all African “plug and heal” medicine, which they cooked and taken in Europe for further distilling. You argue a bit like King Saul who saved the sheep and cattle and Agag for a big offering to God when Hod had required their utter destruction. We do not forget that the europeans printed a bible specificalky for the slaves: “the slaves bible by David Mills”. These feminists are always trying to make it all about them? Missionary work in Africa has taken place since the late 1800s. Matthew 19:1-8. began work in many parts of Africa. Translation: Thank GOD for white people for saving us from ourselves. Where did God legalised slavery God did not write the bible remember he wrote the ten commandments only and they do not say that all of them or anything similar to that { is the bible the word of God } and how do you prove it ? Reading these comments here, i see very brilliant minds, critical thinkers and people much smarter than an average white person, why cant we channel this energy to something truly productive and make Africa great? Or of Australia and America? Funny enough those “europeans” you blame for indoctrination are long since dead but their offspring, it seems, to you they deserve the full force of your antagonistic views. Even Zacchaeus restored all that he forcibly took away. It was the missionaries that built the first hospitals, brought better farming techniques, introduced better hygiene and taught people to read and write. While poor negro hands were being amputated or backs were being horsewhipped for not producing enough sugarcane, the missionaries didnt not reject their sugar sweetened tea nor the clothes produced from cotton of the sweat and blood of the african slaves. Missions to Africa and South America Although Christianity had existed in Ethiopia since the 4th century, much of Africa remained a mission field into the 20th century. If the israelites had been inedient where would the slaves had come from? We no longer need to refer to babylon or assyria as examples of wickedness. Or is the answer to have all white people leave Africa? Missionary agenda was more colonialist than humanitarian and whatever ”positive”‘ things they brought were by mistake rather than intentional.Remember J.S.Moffat,C.D.Helm and other missionaries who congratulated Rhodes for defeating the Ndebele?How can people of God support a war which led to so much destruction? to the history of zimbabwe….revisit your sources as well & come up with better argument. Alright you.. Doesn’t it astonish you to hear who the father of your forefather was? Most missionaries like David Livingstone and Fabri of the German Missionary Society in Namibia believed that once Africans were colonized by European countries they would be more likely to seek after Western Education and Christianity which the missionaries controlled. It is amazing how ungrateful some people are. development is good but as a people we are identified by our culture and not the color of our skin. If missionaries were so good to afrocans then how about extending their goodness to campaign for the government to pay back what they stole or took forcibly? How come they preached that “Ham was cursed”? I also stated why dwell on the past? It is quite worthy of notice that after “abolishment” of slavery the same europeans started colonialism which resulted in the senseless slaughter of over 20million congolese and hererro. And you know the waves that come: the craftiness,schemes and plots of men. are they looted? While missionaries could sometimes clash with colonial governments, for the most part missions were important tools for colonial governments. it was not because she wanted to free the Africans but it was no longer profitable to her since there was stiff competition from other countries. Aged just 28, she sailed to West Africa in August 1876 and was assigned to the Calabar region. Introduce new methods of farming? View list of houses of the Missionaries of Charity Active Sisters. The conscious african knows his past throughly and takes it with him. Your uninspired interpretation of scripture is profane and contrary to scripture just like your profane “white jesus”, for God explicitly said you shall not make an image because you saw no form or likeness. Did Lazarus not say if I have defrauded any I restore fourfold? If the european miossinary was so good how come he left such a very horrendous lingering taste? The original intent was to maintain order,justice and equality of resources among men. No… they actually learnt from their abusers and perfected the techniques so l dont know if you want us to pity the “poor bastards”. A little review of the world’s history will reveal that even the colonial nations were once colonised. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Most of these men died in their fight for African freedom and Biblical Truth. The extent was only exagarated and it is only that the fact that the shona also raided the Ndebele was not established. | Separation of Church and State, Pingback: "Radical" review: 61-84 – Samantha Field, Pingback: What do we really know about Africa? The Monarch, the lords and the “church” were only conscerned with the “obedience” of the slaves to British laws and regulations. How will you feed your people? For almost 100 years, Divine Word Missionaries were repeatedly denied re-entry to this … Capitalism has become so dominant a force that almost no one can claim their birthright of living off of nature and moving freely across the land. What has feminism got to do with colonialism. Africans were slaughtered and it seems as if the missionaries stood back and watched. The population in “Africa” was over a hundred million before colonization so how bad was our healthcare if our population was so great? Your portrayal of past leaders give the impression that they were insipid and feeble minded- it doesn’t do us good. Leo it sounds to me like you are a part of the missionaries who came with the intent to help preach but they saw an opportunity and used it a loop hole they entered. Yet, regardless of scripture, you hold up a western european image as His Son and preach by hymns that God sent you to conquer and enslave the world. I believe that the outstrectched arm of the missionaries was sabotaged by the greed of Colonial powers and this influenced by both political and economic means. We do not forget that is was the same.european missionary who taught that “africans were descended from.cursed Ham!” We do not forget that whiles africans suffered under colonialsm and slavery european ministers sang “rule britannia” and were pandering to empire! The second type of slave was based on war, if a group of people lost the war then they would become slaves.The idea of enslaving people perpetually based on phenotype is a EuroAmerican invention and should not be confused with the teachings of Christianity. Amen I say, Amen. So the master would provide for his slave, just as if he/she were a son or daughter of his house. That whiles in africa they were doing “good”, in america they did nothing during jim crow up to the civil rights movement? They do.have lies, death and machines of warfare. | 101.3 Faith FM, it’s been a long time and etc. These 15 Examples Will Leave No Doubt — Everyday Feminism. 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. I am ZWIDE Mzilikazi KaMdlungwana And where exactly is that verse? Missionaries in disguise still show that they are superior to the local Chinese people, I am a witness and do testify to this. That is my belief which I hold utmost. I was intrigued by your sence of humour thats all. Pages in category "Christian missionaries in Africa" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. They cannot even distinguish between one subject of discussion from another. Where were your abolitionists then you hypocrite? Christian missions were organized efforts to spread the Christian faith for the purpose of extending religious teaching at home or abroad. The white minority will never be happy until.the colored majority in the world is dead. Do you really believe that men who risked their lives , families, businesses and comfort of well-off and good living would turn around and stab the people they intended to help in the first place in their back? Churches alone in the U.S. give more - much, much more than that every year to programs in Africa. Seems europe aand the whole world still grapping land left and right from our hapless african leaders. Every boat has a rudder and so must every relationship, friendship,family,community,and individual(country) be steered and guided by a hidden system of unaffected integrity,ability and truth. Europe For England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Ireland, Iceland: Missionaries of Charity. There are many things the Israelites should have known but unfortunately did not; just like you dont when you say God Almighty approves of slavery. Look at it, All institutions in society have laws that command man’s behaviour and most are established by man himself! WE seem to miss the fact that as resources shrink because of OUR abuse, there is the need to share and ally with one’s “enemies”. The WAY of Love and taught it through tedious examples of commitment and longevity in passionate constructing and reconstructing of missionary stations and hospitals. Did I mention that I am not white? There was deep abuse, as you say… but not always from greed and theft. Besides it’s part of learning. Substituting hard work for prayer services and intelligent investments and businesses for special offerings to already rich clergies sucking out their poor flocks. This institution would be payed and supported by the very Monarch because it was expected to conform to his or her wishes. If freedom was a mental thing how come your christian pilgrims fled europe for a better life in the new world? The message preached by Missionaries encouraged Africans to rebel against everything that formed the foundation of African family and society. That to me is quite unreasonable and wrong. Some of them stuck to their mission others however, aided in the colonization of Africans by Europeans. However, this is a matter of faith. 3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. Or the forcible occupation of Africa by Europe with the free exchange of goods and labour between the two? Yes, God does approve of slavery but made sure to make clear to man that we should treat each other with respect and honour no matter your position. Missionaries established some infrastructural developments in Africa e.g. were we the ones who colonised them? Our quarterly newsletter highlights some of our missionaries work from around Africa as well as other recent developments. There were many africans on the continent and in the americas who fought against slavery whiles the european found justification for slavery in the scriptures. There were many traditions about stoning to death of adulterers but what did The Lord, under whose authority Moses promulgated those laws, say? If you are not european then educate yourself about colonization and slavery not through idealistic european views about their missionaries. I’m still here, can’t even spell an insult right. They continue today to remain faithful to their call to share the life and mission of Jesus, and to give witness to the Gospel in Africa and among Africans wherever they may be. Please note the Sisters do not use e-mail. They even preached that salvation could only be obtained through formal work which meant one had to earn a paycheck. let us view Africa from a wider perspective is it true that the missionaries played the role of imperialists unconsciously? Africa will be by far the beneficiary should europe leave africa and africans vice versa. New missionary societies (the LMS, the CMS, the Holy Ghost Fathers, the White Fathers, etc.) Missionaries used the word of God to get land from the people…most of these historical conflicts concerning the Africans were European caused, whoever says Africans some people are ungrateful because the write the history based on the facts is so narrow minded as they are expressing their emotions towards the facts…the fact is Africans had a unique lively hood which wasn’t backwards . Did the british at the same time they were evangelizing africans not slaughter the tasmanians? The goodness of it is that you just check only what they left in their countries in your own senses you think God found none among Africans to do his Job except Europeans Its God,s mission to reveal himself to each and every human not a white man to a black ,your own book says by their fruits you will see them there are no people on the face of earth racist ,corrupt ,cruel as white christians, And my friend, you’ve misinterpreted. these reasons led them to … Stealing our very freedom of speech and thought and mentally ingraining in us that we have to follow the bible without fail. “Evil men do not understand justice but those who seek the Lord understand it fully!”Proverbs 28:5, God revealed that slavery is not evil? That is reasonable. One thing…the light which the european has seen is unequalled in recent world history, but what have they done? The past is always with us. I applaud your position and conclusion Ebby. Missionaries came to East Africa for various reasons. Mozambique Mozambique. Many missionaries built clinics and brought in medicine that improved infant mortality and immunizations which saved countless millions of black lives. The early Christian missionaries and missionaries worked hand in hand with the colonizers. Promote health? but it is also historically naive to dismiss the fact that the Ndebele raided the shona since the is historical evidence which support that the ndebele raided the shona. They were original “Reinhart Bonke’s”. Every structure in the natural represents the structures we must build in the spiritual realm. In essence colonialism was partly a result of betrayal by missionaries. The gold and diamonds you mined without paying a penny; The lands you forcibly deprived people.off without paying a penny. Born in Aberdeen in 1848, Mary Slessor became missionary to Nigeria under the United Presbyterian Church's Foreign Mission Board. The Spirit of God (His thoughts, attitudes and mannerisms) that makes me like Him, as you stated, In whose image we are made, as I stated earlier, is who makes us free. The early success of the missionaries … I think we Africans need to end the pity party about our colonial past- deal with it as part of our undeniable history and start to build Africa. But you peo0le say sorry is enough but wont even say it. I would also like to draw a distinction between the Church of England and the missionaries. This project is a place to assemble them and to explore their family history. Gods image of the first chosen people was the black woman. He is considered to have laid the foundation for Christian witness in tropical Africa. 2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. To spread love? International website. They introduced tsetse flies that brought sleeping sickness and wiped out whole tribes. It was their mission to do anything necessary to convert Africans who were viewed as uncivilized and barbaric. The model of an earlier era more typically involved Christian groups in Western countries sending people to evangelize in Africa or Asia. So my friend, If you give yourself to the One who “has command over the winds and the waves” what is there to fear? the verses you quote are indeed specific to divorce without cause but for remarriage. Agreeing 100% with your views,I acknowledge the credibility of the Bantu’s point. Missionaries signed treaties which were later used by colonialists to take over colonies e.g. I wonder what theintentions of the midsionaries were in Afrika when the same missionaries in america supported that sub-human slavery, inequality of the negro, and denied afrikan slaves any literacy even to reading God’s scriptres! Schupid!!! The facts are strong. Look at the education. They will die trying. 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