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Western-style Christianity is one of the root causes of our cultural, economic, political and social non-development in Africa, as my Lord Cardinal Joseph MALULA said that: “the West has succeeded in Christianizing Africa. It is up to Africans to Africanize Christianity”.

This approach has not been understood by the new generation of African priests, pastors and reverend pastors until today.

Theologians aware of Africa’s intellectual and spiritual alienation such as Dr Jean Marc Ela, Elijibert mveng and Dr Ka mana Godefroid have worked all their lives for a new paradigm of Christianity and theology in Africa, taking into account of the cultural and social realities of the African man. But, unfortunately, their works have neither been publicized nor popularized in the Universities in Africa, more precisely in the Faculty of Theology, in the humanities and social sciences.

This Western-style theology and religion has succeeded in conditioning our way of seeing the world, our way of worshiping the invisible, our way of living and being, by systematically and progressively distancing us from any link with our cultural being. and spiritual African.

Western and Westernized African priests, Arab barbarians and the colonial and neo-colonial administration succeeded in demonizing African medicine, African culture and African religion to train slaves and colonized Africans to properly assimilate the religious and cultural knowledge of Western and Arab man.

African names have been replaced by Bible and Muslim names. Through Western schooling, the settlers succeeded in infantilizing our African languages ​​and sciences to convince an entire people that it is their languages ​​and their sciences that are universal (French, English, Spanish, economics, psychology, Western sociology and political science, etc.).

The African man, despite the 62 years of independence, he is unable to recover with his linguistic and scientific being, even in small festivities the African feels very proud to communicate in the language of the colonizer, to refer to the Western thinkers and authors without realizing its chronic scientific imbecility. (Cfr Yves Mudimbe Vumbi Yoka, in his books the smell of the father and reinventing Africa).

Reading the human history of science, it is confirmed that mathematics has its origins in the DRC with the bone of Ishango in North Kivu in the 1950s. In addition, the humanities and social sciences, philosophy, theology, astronomy, geometry, agronomy, economics were invented and taught in ancient Egypt several centuries before the arrival of Thicidides, Tales, Pythagoras, Plato and other great Greek scholars. (Cfr Egyptologist and historian Cheik Anta Diop, Théophile Obenga, Kalala Omutunde, Prof Bilolo Mubabinge).

We have become beings without essence, incapable of being in transcendental communion with our cosmos, (Cfr Prof. Fabien Ebousi Boulaga, Kama Godefroid, Oscar Bimwenyikushi, Doumbi Fakoly).

Today the African man is considered a spiritual, religious and cultural bat.

It is urgent for the African man to return to his spiritual, religious and cultural sources to assume his destiny and be master of his future. (Cfr Amadou Hapate-ba and Dr Ama Mazama).

Alongside these so-called revealed religions, there are also the sects and lodges that the West has set up to control and dominate the world.

This is the case of the ancient mystic of the rose cross “AMORC”, a philosophical and spiritual movement copied in the magic of ancient Egypt by Westerners, Freemasonry, a structure put in place by the English and the French.

MAIKARI, a spiritual movement that serves to transmit light through the palms of the hands, is a spirituality of Asian origin.

The Eckankar a western religion here from America, “HU”.

Necromancy, a spiritual movement that serves to invoke the dead that has its origins in African and Asian mysticism.

Prima curia (Cfr. the power of Mobutu in the 80s. For more details in this matter) and (Cfr. the scientist Mbombo Bassong, Dr Ama Mazama, Doumbi Fakoly, Kemi Seba).

All these spiritual and religious movements that we have just mentioned have brought Africa to its knees, many African politicians, scientists, artists and businessmen have immersed themselves in these movements but with an extrovert spiritual, cultural and economic purpose that makes Africa can have leaders, intellectuals at the service of the West.

Artists who devalue African culture in their works and fashion of clothing.

Here is Africa today with thousands of thesis doctors and university professors unable to highlight their knowledge for adequate solutions to the problems of Africa, because the latter are for the most part spiritually alienated and they are in Masonic lodges which condition them to be at the service of the West to the detriment of the African continent.

This is one of the great battles that we must lead in Africa and in the DRC, in particular, to save the rising African generation from falling into this trap of religious, cultural and spiritual alienation.

We must relativize that without intangible development (spirituality, culture, values, religion, ethics, education, literature and arts, tradition, etc.) it is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve material development (economic, technological, good governance, democracy , State of rights, security, social, environmental protection, health, agriculture, livestock, basic infrastructure, buildings, etc.)

We must work at all levels for the cultural, religious, intellectual and spiritual Renaissance of the African man in order to hope then for the visible emergence and the concrete and integral development of Africa.

Mapenzi Manyebwa

Researcher in human sciences, specialist in community development, Expert consultant in project planning and management