IS RELIGION HOLDING BACK AFRICA?
The oft-quoted Jomo Kenyatta saying goes something like, ‘When the white man came, he had the Bible. We had the land. He told us to shut our eyes and pray. When we opened them, he had the land. We had the Bible.’
Pan-African scholar PLO Lumumba used the first Kenyan president’s line as a response to a question in this clip about whether religion is holding back Africa.
While we cannot dismiss the ancient grassroots history of Christianity in Africa, the European version of the cross came before the flag, with missionaries paving the way for European settlers to permeate the continent. Initiatives like missionary education for the natives supported the colonial project and created a class of African elites to govern us after ‘flag independence’ in the mid-20th century.
What do you make of Lumumba's remarks?
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