The ManicaPost
Maxwell T. Freddy Mlambo
PEACE, honour, respect and satiety are forever contingent with what we all are as the perpetual perfection that is the force of life, the universal flow of electro-magnetic energy-the CREATOR as all.
Prior to the forced and brutal imposition upon the people of this country of Christianity and all of colonialism’s inherited institutions, our ancestors knew they were an integral part of nature and did not in any way whatsoever seek to or attempt to assume a suzerainity over what clearly was a larger part of their existence and in this paid homage to the soil as a living, breathing, feeling, compassionate and empathetic being to which all on it belonged and would return to continue as the ancestors of all things.
Yes, dear children of the earth, not only did colonialism’s slavery, rape, brutality and corruption of our nature and more fundamentally morality, disrupt Africans’ symbiotic relationship with the soil as a larger component of ourselves, colonialism made out of existing Africans ancestors trapped by ‘modernity’s vices, thus far removed from the true knowledge of our natural position in the universal scheme of things.
The KhoiKhoi people of the southern tip of Africa in what we still call South Africa knew prior to the arrival of Europeans their true position in the universe as the CREATOR. They called this CREATOR who lived as and existed in all Tsui/goab, the controller of the rains; therefore life, and guardian of health. The Portuguese’s attempt to impose the doctrine of Christianity on the peoples of the Mwene Mutapa Empire were astounded to discover that unlike Europeans of the same epoch in time, the indigenous people of pre-colonial Zimbabwe did not believe in divine kingship, but rather a Supreme Being-Mwari, Musikavanhu that was perceivable as the life in all they lived as.
The Buganda people of modern day Uganda believed in Katonda who was responsible for every article of creation and harboured the ancestors. The Nguni, Xhosa, Zulu, abaThembu, Bomvana, Mpondo and Mpondomise believed in this CREATOR to whom all ancestors went to dwell in continuous perpetuity as all and was responsible for good health, rains and bountiful harvests.
Continuing along this trajectory of revelation, the Sotho peoples called this CREATOR, Modimo and approached Him through the spirits of one’s ancestors as Modimo was ever present as all living matter. The Bambara people of the Mande Group in West Africa (circa. Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal) called this CREATOR Bemba or Ngala who was the creator of all things.
To the Bambara, the CREATOR was a quaternary consisting of Bemba, Mousso Koroni Koundye (or Nyale), Faro and Ndomadyiri-the last three correspond to the four elements of air, fire, water and earth. So as can be clearly adduced and demonstrably determined pre-colonial Africa had a homogenous religious belief system that was founded on humanity’s acceptance of itself as nature and the perfect perpetual universal flow of electro-magnetic energy that is the CREATOR as all.
Our “modern” African nations in their continued mode of operation still play a covert (layered beneath administrative, economic and artificial territorial modalities) subservience to neo-colonialism and this is clearly demonstrable in the manner in which the skewed global political socio-economic order is maintained to forever keep us Africans particularly, entrapped in a particular position of dependency upon Europeans, from which position our thrust to development and advancement towards that of the west is governed, controlled and manipulated depending on underpinned European interests determined and disrupted through the introduction of ill-winds (mamhepo) of chaos, anarchy, conflicts, and wars. Bear in mind dear Gentle Readers that prior to colonialism and all its inherited institutions’ imposition upon our African way of Life as the perfection we knew were a part of as nature, there were no hospitals, prisons or clinics in Africa.
What this reveals to us living in this current constancy of forever progressing Time is that our ancestors as us were morally upright peoples, severely hygienic when compared and juxtaposed against the prevalent sordid state of European towns and cities of the same era in time which were a hot bed of diseases such as tuberculosis, dysentery, cholera, scurvy, measles and smallpox to name but a few; which were unheard of and unknown in all of Africa prior to the arrival of our “civilisers”.
We led a life that was based upon the inalienable right to collectively accessible prosperity that was the abundance of ourselves as nature.
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