Christianity is not a Colonial Legacy in Africa. || Apostle Abeiku Okai

 I wonder why we always want to force the argument that Christianity is foreign to Africa and that it is a colonial legacy, which must be avoided in favour of the so-called African Traditional Religion. Can't we still read history for ourselves than remain in the colonial mindset that Christianity came from Europe?

When did Europe receive the gospel and when did Africa receive the gospel? What does the Bible say and what does credible history also say?

Assuming we are right in the argument that Christianity is from Europe. Which European country then sent Christianity to Ethiopia? Haven't we read that Africa received the gospel in Acts 2 where the Bible records people from Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene where part of those who first heard the Apostles spoke in tongues? (Acts 2:10). Is it not highly probable the three thousand souls that became believers that very day and subsequent days included those Africans present?

Now, in Acts 8 the Bible records the salvation of the Finance Minister of Ethiopia receiving the gospel while on his way to Ethiopia. Didn't he return with the gospel he received that day and established the new faith?

Are you even aware that the continent of Africa and the people of Africa were actually known by the name Ethiopia, and therefore the name doesn't refer to the modern country but blacks in general and the land of the black skin people? And so when ancient writers mentioned Ethiopia they mean more than the modern country called Ethiopia? Read this from bbc.co.uk for reference purpose:

"Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was brought from Jerusalem to Alexandria on the Egyptian coast by Mark, one of the four evangelists, in 60 AD. This was around the same time or possibly before Christianity spread to Northern Europe.

Once in North Africa, Christianity spread slowly West from Alexandria and East to Ethiopia. Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's official religion. In 312 Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

In the 7th century Christianity retreated under the advance of Islam. But it remained the chosen religion of the Ethiopian Empire and persisted in pockets in North Africa."

Why have we hidden the fact that before Christianity became official in Europe it had already gained official status on the African continent? When at all did colonialism begin in Africa? Please let's be honest to truth and never twist the fact, pretending to be a better philosopher for the emancipation of Africa. 

Are you even aware the name Africa is very recent and that reference to Ethiopiain ancient writing is reference to black people? Read this excerpt from ( https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/africa-whats-name#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20popular,Afer'%20and%20'Ifir'. )

"All historians agree that it was the Roman use of the term ‘Africa’ for parts of Tunisia and Northern Algeria which ultimately, almost 2000 years later, gave the continent its name. There is, however, no consensus amongst scholars as to why the Romans decided to call these provinces ‘Africa’. Over the years a small number of theories have gained traction...

"It was only in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, with the European age of exploration, that the concept of continents as contiguous landmasses bordered, and separated, by oceans, began to take shape. As European exploration opened up the idea of continents, so cartographers began to give single geographical names to entire continents. By the end of the seventeenth century, the name ‘Africa’ had won out over the others, beating names such as Guinea, Libya or Aethiopia to become the name for the entire continent as we know it today. Why Africa won out over all the other, often more popular, names is unclear, although some historians have argued that it is due to the seventeenth and eighteenth-century preference for latinate terms above all others.

"The word ‘Africa’ has been a marker on the continent for millennia, but its dominance over the continent and its place as the name for all the people who live on it is only a very recent phenomenon."

Anyway, if you still think Christianity is foreign and so must be discarded then do same with the name Africa because it is from the colonisers. Don't call yourself an African.

In my next post I will prove that there is nothing like African traditional religion.

Apst. Abeiku Okai