Before the Maafa (the African enslavement process), us Africans were practising our OWN INDIGENOUS spiritual systems. We created names for the Creator such as KATONDA (Uganda), MUSIKI (Zimbabwe) , NZAMBI MPUNGU (Angola), MWIN (Burkina Faso), AUSAR, AUSET, DJEHUTY, PTAH, MA'AT, etc.(ancient Kemet(egypt)), ULIMWENGU (Swahili term), RANGE (Kenya), CHUKWU (Nuer people), OLUDUMARE, OLORUN (Ifa (Yoruba tradition)), KLE (Bambara)... the list goes on ad infinitum. Before the Maafa, we had rituals, ceremonies, holy days which gave reverence to these Creative forces as well as to the ancestral realm and those yet to be born. We were/are a holistic people. Then the savage, barbaric, brutish, hateful, bad-smellin', non-spiritual caucasoids/europeans came and destroyed our NATURAL way of life and continued to do what the hateful arabs had done--continued to give us FOREIGN, ALIEN GODS. And they also laughed at and eventually made us laugh at and hate our Creator, in our image, venerated OUR WAY. WE MUST RETURN TO OUR ORIGINAL WAYS OF VENERATION IF THE POWERS OF THE UNIVERSE ARE EVER TO BE IN OUR FAVOR AGAIN!!!
The traditions of our Ancestors WILL once again be lifted up and we will shout their names aloud as we liberate ourselves and the future so those before us can look upon us and SMILE!!!
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