The Journey About African Religions Was Not Easy
The journey about African religions was not an easy one. It took many years before Africans could embrace it. They observed it as a foreign ideology that had come to interfere with their quiet and calm life. Before civilization the Africans worshipped God in different ways and each tribe did it by their own way. There was no Bible but religious matters were decided by priests chosen from among the community.
Religion was introduced by the colonialists to help convince Africans to turn from their uncivilized ways that the colonialists themselves disgraced. To trick the Africans to fall for this they sent missionaries who finally managed to convince them by offering them shelter, education and clothing. This acted as a catalyst and the Africans embraced this religion fully.
Most of the missionaries, didn’t not survive for a very long time because they were attacked by tropical diseases and also suffered bites from mosquitoes that resulted in severe malaria. African would survive because their bodies had adopted. Dickson is the Chief Tour Guide and one of the Directors of Adventure Africa Expedition, he has traveled in many countries in Africa where he built the spirit of adventure and discovered nature hidden wonders in especially tailored walking trails like in Kisoro in Rwanda and Bwindi in Uganda both for Gorilla tracking.
However most of the missionaries did not leave left handed. At least they left two dominant religions; Catholics and Protestants others like DR. Ludwig Krapf who built a mausoleum at the coast of Kenya. He is also the first white man to see MT. Kenya and a name which gave birth to the name of that country. In those days the missionaries could not penetrate too much into the interior because of constant fear of being attacked by wildlife and hostile communities.
What Are The Curses In Mysterious African Religions
I always think that Afica is a very mysterious place on the earth, and the African religions are also very mysterious. I can’t understand why someone would want to intentionally corrupt files. However, people do it everyday in the spiritual world. They do it through the power of intention. Of course there are 101 thousand books on display about intention and how it’s great to attract abundance, love, and peace into your life. But, the power of intention has a “dark side” that’s crueler than Darth Vader. People think that a curse starts and ends with the mind. This is only partly true. A curse begins with the exchange of energy. It is best to think of a curse like an airborn virus, for it works to tear down your immune system and weaken your defenses. When a curse is not properly treated, it grows to infect all parts of the mind, body, and soul. The best way to combat a curse is through prayer and meditation.
Do you know about curse? You may think that it is very terrible, curses can come from other people or they can come from other realms. In many cases, they come from people’s auric fields. Every living being on earth has an aura that vibrates at a different frequency. These auras have individual bands of energy that pulsates much like a heart beat. When we interact with other people, our auras merge, and we began to exchange energy (information). The energy could be good, or it could be bad. Bad energy can be transferred in forms of a curse and it works in two ways. It can either take your energy and or dump bad energy into your auric fields.
Just think of negative energy like a virus. You pick it up from surfing the Internet, opening an email, or an attachment. Your computer starts to act funny. You began to lose files; you get millions of pop-ups, and spammers trying to sell you pills. You get frustrated because you need to use your computer for work, school, and socialization. At this point, you are either going to do one of two things. You are going to get the virus removed, or you are going to continue to work on your computer with the virus on it.
Just imagine a curse being like a leech that latches onto your body and sucks on your blood. Or a fly that lands on you and regurgitates on your skin. Curses can be exchanged unintentionally and intentionally. People who are well versed in the dark arts, such as brujeria and witchcraft are able to work with this kind of energy. However, most people are unaware that they are carrying a curse, or that they are spreading it to other people. Curses can be exchanged from person to person, from group to group, to family to family. The energy is malignant and so strong, that it binds people together in the worse way.
We can see this with spousal abuse and relationships that are completely chaotic. Couples cannot pull away from one another; no matter how hard they try. Curses work in other ways where it causes interference and you can’t discern your own thoughts and emotions from others. We see this happening a lot in cults and in families that are highly dysfunctional. In these cases, the curses are so strong that people no longer have contact with their true self. Their sense of intuition is gone and they are exposed to corrupt “crazy” leaders who force them to drink the poison kool-aid. Curses cause us to abuse ourselves. Curses are commonly inflicted during times of trauma and many people cannot heal, because the curse forces them to relive and suffer from the traumatic event over and over again. Others carry a curse of unworthiness and invite themselves to be abused and mistreated by others.
Boko Haram And US Plans In Africa
ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan. 9 (UPI) — Oil-rich Nigeria is gripped by an escalating uprising by Islamist militants that has triggered massacres of Christians, including a Christmas Day suicide bombing blitz, which the federal government seems unable to contain.
Amid deepening suspicions the Islamists are aided by al-Qaida’s North African wing, which has been extending its operations southward of late, there are fears the bloodletting could plunge Africa’s most populous state into a sectarian civil war.Nigeria is a major oil producer that provides 8 percent of U.S. crude imports and there are signs that Washington is growing concerned about the swelling crisis there.
In October, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed to take action against the main Nigerian Islamist group, Boko Haram, which until a few months ago was widely seen as a northeastern Nigerian sect primarily concerned with domestic issues.But as the group, whose name translates as “Western education is a sin,” has escalated its religious war from drive-by shootings and killing Christians to more sophisticated operations and suicide bombings, it has evolved into a serious threat to Nigeria’s stability.
Formed in the 1990s, the group demanded Islamic Sharia law to be introduced into northern Nigeria, which is predominantly Muslim. But in recent years it has repeatedly clashed with Nigeria’s Christians in the central region where the two religions collide.Nigeria’s population of 150 million is roughly split evenly between the two faiths.
But the country’s oil wealth is in the Christian-dominated south and little has reached the long-neglected north, which has fanned regional resentment.Boko Haram’s growing expertise in terrorist attacks, in which hundreds of people have been killed, has deepened suspicions it has developed links with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the jihadists’ North African arm.
In November, it was disclosed that the U.S. Army has sent 100 Special Forces soldiers to Nigeria to provide counter-insurgency training for national troops engaged against Boko Haram, the country’s largest military deployment since the 1967-70 Biafra war.This opened up a new front in the U.S. administration’s shadow war in Africa, where U.S. Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency are engaged in countering jihadist groups in the north and east, particularly Somalia.
On Nov. 30, the U.S. House of Representatives’ subcommittee on counter-terrorism and intelligence identified Boko Haram as an “emerging threat” to the United States and its interests and called for greater interaction with Nigerian security forces.
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