“African humanism recognises the Vital Force or the Supreme Being at the centre of, and integrating, human, animal and plant life and the inanimate elements of the universe. It is a simple faith, free tyranny of theological and intellectual argument. This is the measure of the imaginations invested in the power of oral expression.”
Eskia Mphahlele
Could a people who possess an unshakable belief in a god who orchestrates all human fate and laws of nature be not considered to be suffering a type of collective psychotic experience?
Is there a psycho-chemical mixture brewing in human brains that is breeding staunch faiths in mythological gods such as of the Greeks or Romans, spawning fanatical subservience to recent gods of collective imaginations engineered at the Vatican or Mecca?
Does the “worship instinct” in humanity qualify as a psychological disorder wired into our brains, that eventually engendered chosen races and their imperialist thought systems and their subsequent colonial exploitation and the “Othering” of people of colour?
And from what sinister roots does the contemporary gullibility expressed by masses congregating in mega-churches mean of the Black Mind?
What is this obsessed embrace of pseudo-prophets and the continued derogation of our ancestral spirituality for the promise of paradise in heaven?
How does religion work in the constant suppression projects orchestrated by the coloniser, and how is it that black folk continue to embrace a religion that has demonised them and deemed them inferior to other races?
