AFRICAN REVOLUTION

  It is a shame that Africans are still aiding the Europeans in the  demonization of our  Spirituality, culture, ways of worshipping, pantheon and traditional heritage.  Our ancestors knew God and understood nature and the universe before Rome and Mecca began to spread their religions through violence, forceful conversion and unnecessary waste of human lives. It is well recorded that the Egyptians and all other religions in Africa knew the cosmology of the universe, the stars and other extra terrestrial existences long before Christianity and Islam were formed. This is evident in the Egyptian book of the dead, the Ifa odu verses and creation story, it is evident in most of Africa’s creation stories which depicted Inter-stellar events and descent of Gods and Deities from the sky who created humans and the world at large.  There was a time when the Bishops of Rome and other murderous men of the Roman Empire who were proclaimed  ‘Saints’  launched gruesom...

    At the Berlin conference of 1884/1885 all European ruling houses and elites laid down their arms to dialogue amongst themselves on how best to rule, conquer and subjugate their  overseas colonies and investments in Africa. Prior to the Conference of 1884 and before the era of contacts with the European slave traders, Africa used to be a continent with diverse empires, kingdoms and societies, with each developing at their own pace. Never was it thought or conceived that members of the different Nations and ethnic nationalities across the continent will become countries in the future forcefully married together.  In Nigeria's case, it seemed absurd that Nations and races like the Yoruba, Igbos, Hausas, the Bini People, the Nupe Nation, The Kanem-Bornu Empire were all forced to merge under a single country. These peoples with diverse cultures could not have survived together, neither could they have settled amongst themselves, these peoples who were forced to become...