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Religion: Africa’s Oldest Weapon of Enslavement and the Forgotten Truth
Religion: Africa’s Oldest Weapon of Enslavement and the Forgotten Truth.
By George Omagbemi Sylvester | Published by SaharaWeeklyNG.com
The day Africans stop worshipping their OPPRESSORS’ gods is the day true freedom begins.
Introduction: Chains Broken, But Minds Still Bound.
The history of Africa is incomplete without acknowledging the dual weapons that tore through its body and soul: the physical chains of slavery and the psychological shackles of religion. While the chains of iron rusted and fell off, the chains of the mind (enforced through CHRISTIANITY and ISLAM) remain deeply embedded in the African consciousness. Africans today reject the brutality of slavery, yet cling to the very tools that justified and sustained their oppression.
Religion in Africa, particularly Islam and Christianity, did not arrive as benevolent gifts of spiritual enlightenment. They were imposed, force-fed and institutionalized through violence, coercion and cultural destruction. The Trans-Saharan slave trade spread Islam across North, East and West Africa, while the Transatlantic slave trade embedded Christianity in Central and Southern Africa. Both were instruments of conquest, designed to dismantle African identity, demonize indigenous spirituality and create a submissive, divided people.
The Forgotten Prophets of Africa.
Before the arrival of Arab slave traders and European colonizers, Africa was not without its spiritual compass. The continent was rich with systems of belief rooted in ancestral reverence, herbal medicine, astronomy and moral codes handed down from sages and seers. These men and women were CUSTODIANS of TRUTH; the true prophets and visionaries of Africa.
When the foreign religions came, these prophets were branded as witches, pagans and devil worshippers. They were hunted, imprisoned and executed. Temples of knowledge (the schools of Kemet – ancient Egypt- and Kush) were either destroyed or appropriated. The herbalists who understood the earth’s healing were demonized; the diviners who read the stars were silenced. In their place came the holy books of the slave masters, which demanded blind faith, obedience and loyalty not to the ancestors but to foreign gods.
As the Kenyan scholar John S. Mbiti observed, “Religion was not brought into Africa; it was found in Africa. Africans were religious before the Europeans and Arabs came.” Yet the narrative taught today erases that truth, convincing Africans that their salvation must come from outsiders.
Religion as a Tool of Slavery.
To understand how religion was weaponized, one must confront the history:
Islam and the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade:
From the 7th century onward, Arab traders exported millions of Africans across the Sahara and Indian Ocean. Islam became the cloak under which Africans were told slavery was divinely sanctioned. Quranic justifications were twisted to brand black Africans as “FIT FOR SERVITUDE.” This trade persisted for over 1,000 years; longer than the Atlantic trade.
Christianity and the Transatlantic Slave Trade:
By the 15th century, European powers (Portugal, Spain, Britain, France) embarked on a mass kidnapping campaign that displaced over 12 million Africans. The Bible was the silent whip. Slaveholders cited verses like “Servants, obey your masters” (Ephesians 6:5) to sanctify brutality. Churches were not just silent bystanders; they owned plantations, profited from slavery and baptized captives before shipping them to death across the ocean.
Professor Chinweizu, the Nigerian critic of neo-colonialism, warned: “The white man’s God was never your God. He was invented to enslave you.”
King James and the Bible of Chains.
The King James Bible, often treated as holy scripture in African churches, has its own dark origins. King James I of England was a monarch deeply enmeshed in the politics of empire and colonization. His version of the Bible (1611) was commissioned not as a neutral spiritual text but as a political instrument to unify his kingdom and justify authority.
King James granted the Royal African Company its charter, enabling English merchants to dominate the Atlantic slave trade. This made him not only a ruler but a slave trader. As historian Edward Rugemer notes, the Bible under King James was deployed to discipline slaves, teaching them that obedience was a Christian duty. Africans who glorify this text without scrutiny fail to see the blood-soaked ink in its pages.
Jesus: The White Man’s Idol or the Black Messiah?
Perhaps the deepest deception lies in the image of Jesus. The “white boy with blue eyes” worshipped in Africa today was the creation of European Renaissance art, modeled on Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI. This image became propaganda, replacing the historical Jesus; a dark-skinned, woolly-haired man from the line of David.
The Book of Revelation 1:14-15 describes him plainly: “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace.” This is not the image of a pale European, but of a Black man.
As Marcus Garvey thundered: “We Negroes believe in the God of Ethiopia, the everlasting God. God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, the one God of all ages. That is the God in whom we believe, but we shall worship Him through the spectacles of Ethiopia.”
The Book Jesus Spoke About.
When Jesus asked his disciples, “Have you not read? Is it not written?” he was referring not to the King James Bible, which did not exist, but to the ANCIENT SCROLLS of the TORAH, the PSALMS, and PROPHETIC WRITINGS. Africans must ask themselves: why are we handed a colonial compilation of texts while our own sacred writings (the PAPYRUS SCROLLS of KEMET, the ORAL TRADITIONS of IFA, the HIEROGLYPHIC WISDOM of NUBIA) are discarded as “pagan”?
Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan, the eminent Egyptologist, said: “The Bible is a rewritten book of African spiritual writings. What was stolen in Kemet became holy in Europe.”
The Psychological War: Why Africans Still Cling to Religion.
If religion was a weapon, why then do Africans still cling to it? The answer lies in psychology. After centuries of enslavement, colonial education and missionary indoctrination, religion became synonymous with morality, civilization and hope. To reject it feels like rejecting identity itself.
This is the illusion. As Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o warns in Decolonising the Mind: “The most important area of domination is the mental universe of the colonized.” The colonizers may have left physically, but they left behind a spiritual operating system designed to keep Africa submissive.
The Call for African Awakening.
True liberation for Africa begins not in politics or economics, but in spirituality. Until Africans restore respect for their ancestral wisdom, the continent will remain trapped in foreign systems of thought. The task is not to erase faith but to redefine it, to honor the AFRICAN PROPHETS, HERBALISTS and SAGES who were silenced and to reclaim the spiritual traditions demonized by slave masters.
As Cheikh Anta Diop, the Senegalese historian, put it: “The African who loses his culture loses himself.”
Africa’s Last Awakening: Breaking the Final Chain.
The chains of slavery were visible; the chains of religion are invisible; but both are real. Africa cannot rise while bowing to the idols of its oppressors. To pray to the image of a white Christ while rejecting the wisdom of our ancestors is to spit on their struggle.
The day Africans wake up and realize that their dignity lies not in imported religions but in the reclamation of their own divine heritage, that day the continent will stand tall again.
The final battle is not fought with guns or protests, but with the awakening of the African mind.
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How Tinubu’s Government Is Suffering For Ignoring Primate Ayodele’s Early Prophecies On Insecurity
*How Tinubu’s Government Is Suffering For Ignoring Primate Ayodele’s Early Prophecies On Insecurity
After swearing-in on May 29, 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu received goodwill messages from renowned men of God, with many prophesying that his administration would be better, especially in terms of security.
Many of these messages were based on the earlier promise of the All Progressive Congress that the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, would tackle insecurity adequately for the country.
However, in the midst of these praises and goodwill messages, renowned prophet, Primate Elijah Ayodele, who is known for always revealing the future of any new administration, spoke in a prophetic message that went viral, that insecurity will be used as a great tool against Tinubu’s administration.
The prophet had been talking about another APC government since 2022, noting that Nigerians will face several economic hardships, and he was detested by the ruling party and its supporters because of this. They saw him as an opposition party when they were supposed to listen to his prophetic warnings. However, it happened; the major indices of the economy are energy and currency. The exchange rate and price of petrol have never been so much like it has been for the past three years now.
The prophet warned repeatedly that insecurity and the economy would be the major issues President Tinubu would face in his administration, but did they listen? Absolutely not, because if they did, some of the issues being faced in the country would have disappeared.
Beyond his statement before the election, Primate Ayodele continued to warn the government against insecurity, even as far as warning against an impending coup. The prophet had revealed that some powerful Nigerians are angry with the president and have planned to remove him unconstitutionally. Of course, they never believed this till it happened. If not for the prophetic security alert issued by the prophet, the president may have been removed when the coup came to light.
These were his warnings regarding the coup:
“There will be an attempt to unseat Tinubu unconstitutionally; the NSA, DSS, and Chief of Army Staff must be careful about this. There are some gangs planning between November to January to unseat him.”
https://tribuneonlineng.com/some-powerful-nigerians-plotting-to-remove-tinubu-through-coup-primate-ayodele/
Thankfully, they were arrested, and some of them have been detained.
More recently, there were attacks on some states on Easter Sunday, leading to the death of some Christians. This happened as a result of obstinacy on the part of security operatives because just days before it, Primate Ayodele specifically warned that some states would be attacked from Easter Sunday, and it did happen, with security operatives having nothing to do to stop the incident.
These were Primate Ayodele’s warnings.
“Our security operatives must watch Easter Sunday well because plans have been concluded to carry out attacks in seven states starting from that day.
“The states to watch out for include Kogi, Kwara, Ondo, Ogun, Nasarawa, Kebbi, and Kaduna.
“The security operatives must be extra vigilant in these states starting from Easter Sunday.”
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/easter-sunday-primate-ayodele-warns-seven-states-of-terrorist-attacks/
Yesterday, there was an internal memo released by the Nigerian Customs Service that Boko Haram are planning to attack some prisons and airports in the country.
This corroborated the prophetic warning of Primate Ayodele, which he shared some weeks ago, regarding some prisons, specifically mentioning Kuje prison.
These were his words:
“Break jail is imminent, Kuje prison or they send a bomb into Kuje prison, it’s a midnight work…..”
Meanwhile, Primate Ayodele had warned that there are people sponsoring insecurity in President Tinubu’s government. He also urged him to name some of them in order to curb it, but this has yet to be done.
President Tinubu’s government would have been one of the best, but insecurity has tarnished it greatly, and the country is gradually returning to the days of daily killings; even Nigerian high-ranking soldiers are not spared. This insecurity has given the administration a bad record internationally, with the US naming Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).
If the president had listened, Nigerians, and even the government, wouldn’t have suffered this much. However, it’s not too late for them to turn a new leaf.
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Nigerian Navy Deepens Ties With Ogun Community
Nigerian Navy Deepens Ties With Ogun Community
In a deliberate effort to strengthen civil–military relations, the Nigerian Navy School of Music on Wednesday hosted youths from the Lemode Community Development Committee at its premises, in an engagement designed to foster trust and cooperation between the military and the civilian population.
The initiative, aligned with the civil–military cooperation drive under the leadership of the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Idi Abbas, reflects a growing recognition within the armed forces that national security is reinforced not only through operations but also through meaningful connections with civilians, particularly the youth.
The visiting youths from Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State were received with warmth and professionalism, as naval personnel ensured seamless coordination, adherence to security protocols, and a welcoming atmosphere.
Central to the engagement was a security orientation session aimed at deepening mutual understanding and encouraging intelligence sharing. This was complemented by cultural and social interactions that helped demystify military life, presenting naval personnel as partners in community development. The exercise underscored the Navy’s commitment to openness and sustained engagement with host communities.
Addressing participants, the Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Adelaja Sanni, described the visit as a strategic platform for strengthening ties between the Navy and the civilian population. He emphasised that such initiatives help to build trust, promote unity, and foster a shared sense of responsibility for national development.
“The safety of our collective space relies on the information we share. Security awareness means making the youth our primary partners in intelligence. You understand your environment better than anyone, and we rely on your vigilance to keep our communities safe,” he said.
He commended the discipline and conduct of the participants, noting that while activities of the day may pass, the lessons on cooperation and security consciousness would endure.
Sanni also acknowledged the role of Captain Abiodun Folorunsho, Director of Naval Information, describing him as the key link that made the engagement possible. According to him, Folorunsho’s consistent drive for open communication, and strategic public engagement has been central to bridging the gap.
A highlight of the visit was a novelty football match between personnel of the Nigerian Navy School of Music and the visiting official football team, popularly known as Met Boys. The encounter was lively and competitive, ending 2–1 in favour of the community side. OSBD Hunsa MM scored for the Navy, while Abubakar Onifade netted a brace to secure victory for the visitors in a game defined by skill, energy, and sportsmanship. Officials, however, stressed that the significance of the event extended far beyond the scoreline.
Speaking on behalf of the visiting community, Lateef Owodunni expressed appreciation for the warm reception, noting that the initiative had significantly bridged the gap between the military and the youth.
“The security orientation was enlightening. We now understand that intelligence sharing is not about targeting our own people, but about protecting our communities from criminal elements. We are taking this message of vigilance and cooperation back home,” he said.
Owodunni commended the Nigerian Navy, led by Vice Admiral Idi Abbas, particularly Captain Folorunsho, for promoting a people-centred approach to security communication. He described him as instrumental in fostering inclusive engagement within the Nigerian Navy.
He also applauded the leadership of the institution under Lieutenant Commander Sanni, noting that the Commanding Officer demonstrated that lasting peace and mutual understanding are achievable through consultation, dialogue, and engagement rather than confrontation or exclusion.
The engagement was received by other top officers of the Nigerian Navy School of Music, including the Chief Instructor, Lieutenant Onaolapo Onabolu, senior departmental heads, and other key personnel of the establishment.
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Ijebu Muslim Professionals advocate Okubadejo for Deputy Governorship Candidate for 2027
Ijebu Muslim Professionals advocate Okubadejo for Deputy Governorship Candidate for 2027
Ijebu Muslim professionals have thrown their weight behind Hon. Dapo Okubadejo, advocating him for the deputy governorship candidate position of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2027 general elections in Ogun State.
The endorsement was made public by the President of the association, Sherik Abdulazeez Malik Odumosun, who addressed members of the media on the group’s position and reasons for backing Okubadejo.
According to Odumosun, Hon. Okubadejo has demonstrated exceptional leadership capacity and commitment to grassroots development through his role as a commissioner, particularly in the area of infrastructure development across Ijebu land.
He noted that several road projects executed under Okubadejo’s influence have significantly improved connectivity and boosted economic activities within the region, earning him widespread commendation from residents.
Odumosun further highlighted Okubadejo’s contributions to youth empowerment, stressing that his initiatives in skills acquisition, ICT training, financial support, and job creation have positively impacted many young people in the area.
On security, the association praised Okubadejo for strengthening safety measures by supporting security agencies with operational vehicles, thereby enhancing their capacity to tackle emerging security challenges in Ijebu communities.
The group also acknowledged his role in facilitating access to government opportunities at the federal, state, and local government levels, describing him as a bridge between the people and the government.
He described the commissioner as one of the most accessible public office holders, noting that his leadership style has translated into tangible and positive achievements across Ogun State.
While urging party stakeholders and the general public to support the call, Odumosun emphasized that pairing Okubadejo with Senator Solomon Adeola (Yayi) as governorship candidate would ensure balanced representation and sustained development in Ogun State ahead of the 2027 elections.
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