Its interesting how views differ depending which part of the world they are being viewed in. For example: when I look at the word "corruption" one finds its oft used for third world leaders whilst in the west or 1st world we have quangos!
When we take a look at religion,.. don’t even get me started! In the 1st world, we have Christianity. All religions in Africa were considered primitive. Why? Thanks for asking, because Africans worshipped the trees, the river and the forest and different other deities. That was the crime. Now tell me how this is different from a Christian who worships a God who died on a cross by wearing rosary’s, or the muslims who uses exactly the same beads for the admiration of the prophet mohammed!
I guess my beef is that: The African takes his religion from the core of nature( the forest, the river, the skies ), connecting directly with God and often taking instructions on life matters from the oracle. Yet he is considered primitive. The catholic take instructions from the pope on all matters of life and pray the rosary yet the similarity isn’t the same. It makes you wonder whether religion as practised in the west wasn’t just a nifty idea of giving the native the bible while robbing them of their lands, mineral ores and oil. Exploitation comes to mind!
I will leave you with a final observation:* Axum ( a lot of credit in modern history goes to the 1st world yet the stories of empires such as Axum are omitted belittling the credit gained by the Arabs from Axum., the Arabs who scholars are credited with introducing mathematics, science which latterly were stolen by the Roman empire via the Greeks to the renaissance and the age of reasoning)
Cut the bullshit,.. give credit where its due. Africa is the mother earth and gave the world its shape and form,.its language , its art and poetry. Africa has remained untainted by the pollution and excess of the 1st world who must now reduce its consumption to save the earth.
*The Ethiopian state originated in the Axumite (also Aksumite) kingdom, a trading state that emerged around the first century A.D. Axum’s core area lay in the highlands of what are today northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea. At the height of the kingdom’s power, Axumite’s controlled the Red Sea coast, from present day Sudan to Somalia and had dominion of land as far as the Nile Valley in the Sudan. On the Arabian side of the Red Sea, the Axumite kingdom controlled the coast and much of the interior of modern day Yemen. The Axumites perfected a written language (Geez), maintained relations with the Arabs in the Middle East, the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern half of the Roman Empire), and Egypt. There is evidence to suggest that the Axumite state arose as a result of interaction between migrants from Southwest Arabia, who arrived in the Ethiopian Highlands in the first Millennium B.C., and the peoples indigenous to the area. In the mid-fourth century, around 333 A.D., the Axumite king, Ezana, adopted the Christian religion. The Axumite kingdom left a legacy of centralized form of government and the central role of religion in society – two important elements that shaped Ethiopian history.
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( same seedy act but prettied up nicely in the west ) We have: black wednesdays - when the UK economy crashed, but then you can also be in the black which is safe in monetary terms. I get confused. I once visited Milton Keynes and upon my arrival I stuck a flag into the turf on behalf of my country azerbaijan proclaiming the location discovered. Never mind I had driven there by the M1 and followed very well indicated routes and a nice chap also informed me how to get to Silbury Boulevard! The passengers in my car thought I had obviously escaped yet again or wasnt taking my medication. But,..hear me out,.. how does this differ from that chap David Livingston. Credited with finding the source of the river Niger. I mean, was it lost?,.. what of the African fellows that carried his load and led him towards this great discovery! what of the women washing their clothes and bathing in this water at the time of his arrival, were they not aware of the existence of the river?
In the 3rd world ( i cant even write that with a straight face ) we have tribal wars, yet in the 1st world, we have civil wars! I think you get my drift? War is war surely,..its ugly no matter what its called.
When I further address my mind to the issue of culture and mis-representation. We find that in the 1st world education was sophisticated due to the fact they were documented. However, Africa is considered primitive due the fact things were not written. The public at large though do not have the benefit of knowing that Africa used the oral traditions of passing on knowledge. As can be found in the incantations of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. These incantations often lasting up to 10 or 20 stanza’s deep. The pigmies people of eastern to mid Africa with the clicking sound of the koi koi’s
Turning the emphasis to medicines one finds in the west that just because items are packaged and studied in a lab, they are deemed acceptable even revolutionary. However, for hundreds of years the supposed primitive people of Africa had remedies for childbirth, headache’s, mosquito bites, and fever. A native doctor would use the essence of nature to cure many of the ills of society. Yet they were considered primitive. Further examples will be found in the supposed primitive cultures of native Indians, aborigines of Australia and so forth.
Turning the emphasis to medicines one finds in the west that just because items are packaged and studied in a lab, they are deemed acceptable even revolutionary. However, for hundreds of years the supposed primitive people of Africa had remedies for childbirth, headache’s, mosquito bites, and fever. A native doctor would use the essence of nature to cure many of the ills of society. Yet they were considered primitive. Further examples will be found in the supposed primitive cultures of native Indians, aborigines of Australia and so forth.
When we take a look at religion,.. don’t even get me started! In the 1st world, we have Christianity. All religions in Africa were considered primitive. Why? Thanks for asking, because Africans worshipped the trees, the river and the forest and different other deities. That was the crime. Now tell me how this is different from a Christian who worships a God who died on a cross by wearing rosary’s, or the muslims who uses exactly the same beads for the admiration of the prophet mohammed!
I guess my beef is that: The African takes his religion from the core of nature( the forest, the river, the skies ), connecting directly with God and often taking instructions on life matters from the oracle. Yet he is considered primitive. The catholic take instructions from the pope on all matters of life and pray the rosary yet the similarity isn’t the same. It makes you wonder whether religion as practised in the west wasn’t just a nifty idea of giving the native the bible while robbing them of their lands, mineral ores and oil. Exploitation comes to mind!
I will leave you with a final observation:* Axum ( a lot of credit in modern history goes to the 1st world yet the stories of empires such as Axum are omitted belittling the credit gained by the Arabs from Axum., the Arabs who scholars are credited with introducing mathematics, science which latterly were stolen by the Roman empire via the Greeks to the renaissance and the age of reasoning)
Cut the bullshit,.. give credit where its due. Africa is the mother earth and gave the world its shape and form,.its language , its art and poetry. Africa has remained untainted by the pollution and excess of the 1st world who must now reduce its consumption to save the earth.
*The Ethiopian state originated in the Axumite (also Aksumite) kingdom, a trading state that emerged around the first century A.D. Axum’s core area lay in the highlands of what are today northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea. At the height of the kingdom’s power, Axumite’s controlled the Red Sea coast, from present day Sudan to Somalia and had dominion of land as far as the Nile Valley in the Sudan. On the Arabian side of the Red Sea, the Axumite kingdom controlled the coast and much of the interior of modern day Yemen. The Axumites perfected a written language (Geez), maintained relations with the Arabs in the Middle East, the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern half of the Roman Empire), and Egypt. There is evidence to suggest that the Axumite state arose as a result of interaction between migrants from Southwest Arabia, who arrived in the Ethiopian Highlands in the first Millennium B.C., and the peoples indigenous to the area. In the mid-fourth century, around 333 A.D., the Axumite king, Ezana, adopted the Christian religion. The Axumite kingdom left a legacy of centralized form of government and the central role of religion in society – two important elements that shaped Ethiopian history.
Remember: running water cannot be stopped. The views shared on these pages are mine alone and no other(s). I am not affiliated to any parties or groups. I am an in-betweenist. A lover of the world, a global citizen.
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