Royale Exclusive Apartheid; Does Religion divide Africa?

technbizznamibia
Oct 19, 2019
5 min read

Is religion another of the colonizers traps?

Welcome back from the world people, the International break is over and Royale is back. In game week 9 epl kicks off as follows;

Pamozi’s Yard! Who’s yard is it? Certainly Pamozi FC will be feeling like the big dog after 8 gameweeks with a 100% record though they are being closely tailed by the pair of ABCDE FC (460 Opts) and SpaceNamibia On IG (456 Opts) both on 18 points.

Newton FC dropped to 4th on 18 points as well heeding of the on coming challenge from the pair of kehemu United FC and Goady all on 18 points.

Absolute FC heads a positive bunch all but Shooya FC who dropped to 11 after losing in gw8.

mid table

In the lower regions of the Royale Exclusive this is how things stand.

Mwas Bonnie’s Moto Moto are not having a good season. Just one win from 8,can they get lucky twice in gw 9?

Royale Exclusive gw8 Results

Welcome to gw9 in the Royale Exclusive

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#TechnBizzNam Classic Royale

Heading into gw9 Hidden Agenda lead the pack on 476 points in the Classic Royale while a steady run of form has seen the Neptunians leap into 2nd on 456 points 6 points ahead of Newton FC in 3rd.

Wikipedia insights on #african religion.

The majority of Africans are adherents of Christianity or Islam. African people often combine the practice of their traditional belief with the practice of Abrahamic religions. Abrahamic religions are widespread throughout Africa. They have both spread and replaced indigenous African religions, but are often adapted to African cultural contexts and belief systems. The World Book Encyclopedia has estimated that in 2002 Christians formed 40% of the continent’s population, with Muslims forming 45%. It was also estimated in 2002 that Christians form 45% of Africa’s population, with Muslims forming 40.6%.[14]

ChristianityEdit

Main article: Christianity in Africa

The Hanging Church of Cairo, Egypt.

Christianity is now one of the most widely practiced religions in Africa along with Islam and is the largest religion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most adherents outside Egypt, Ethiopia and Eritrea are Roman Catholic or Protestant.[citation needed] Several syncretistic and messianic sects have formed throughout much of the continent, including the Nazareth Baptist Church in South Africa and the Aladura churches in Nigeria.There is also fairly widespread populations of Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The oldest Christian denominations in Africa are the Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (which rose to prominence in the fourth century AD after King Ezana the Great made Ethiopia one of the first Christian nations.[15])

In the first few centuries of Christianity, Africa produced many figures who had a major influence outside the continent, including St Augustine of Hippo, St Maurice, Origen, Tertullian, and three Roman Catholic popes (Victor I, Miltiades and Gelasius I), as well as the Biblical characters Simon of Cyrene and the Ethiopian eunuch baptised by Philip the Evangelist. Christianity existed in Ethiopia before the rule of King Ezana the Great of the Kingdom of Axum, but the religion grasped a strong foothold when it was declared a state religion in 330 AD, becoming one of the first Christian nations.[16] The earliest and best known reference to the introduction of Christianity to Africa is mentioned in the Christian Bible‘s Acts of the Apostles, and pertains to the evangelist Phillip’s conversion of an Ethiopian traveler in the 1st century AD. Although the Bible refers to them as Ethiopians, scholars have argued that Ethiopia was a common term encompassing the area South-Southeast of Egypt.

Other traditions have the convert as a Jew who was a steward in the Queen’s court.[clarification needed] All accounts do agree on the fact that the traveler was a member of the royal court who successfully succeeded in converting the Queen, which in turn caused a church to be built. Tyrannius Rufinus, a noted church historian, also recorded a personal account as do other church historians such as Socrates and Sozemius.[17] Some experts predict the shift of Christianity’s center from the European industrialized nations to Africa and Asia in modern times. Yale University historian Lamin Sanneh stated, that “African Christianity was not just an exotic, curious phenomenon in an obscure part of the world, but that African Christianity might be the shape of things to come.”[18] The statistics from the World Christian Encyclopedia (David Barrett) illustrate the emerging trend of dramatic Christian growth on the continent and supposes, that in 2025 there will be 633 million Christians in Africa.[19]

A 2015 study estimates 2,161,000 Christian believers from a Muslim background in Africa, most of them belonging to some form of Protestantism.[20]

IslamEdit

Main article: Islam in Africa

Further information: History of Islam § Islam in Africa

The Great Mosque of Kairouan, erected in 670 by the Arab general Uqba Ibn Nafi, is the oldest mosque in North Africa.[21] Kairouan, Tunisia.

Abuja National Mosque in Nigeria.

Islam is the other major religion in Africa alongside Christianity,[22] with 47% of the population being Muslim, accounting for 1/4 of the world’s Muslim population.[citation needed] The faith’s historic roots on the continent stem from the time of the Prophet Muhammad, whose early disciples migrated to Abyssinia (hijira) in fear of persecution from the pagan Arabs.

The spread of Islam in North Africa came with the expansion of Arab empire under Caliph Umar, through the Sinai Peninsula. Spread of Islam in West Africa was through Islamic traders and sailors.

Islam is the dominant religion in North Africa and the Horn of Africa. It has also become the predominant religion on the Swahili Coast as well as the West African seaboard and parts of the interior. There have been several Muslim empires in Western Africa which exerted considerable influence, notably the Mali Empire, which flourished for several centuries and the Songhai Empire, under the leadership of Mansa Musa, Sunni Ali and Askia Mohammed.

Africa By Muslim Percentage

The vast majority of Muslims in Africa are Sunni, belonging to either Maliki or Shafi schools of jurisprudence. However, Hanafi school of jurisprudence is also represented, mainly in Egypt.[23] There are also sizeable minorities of Shias, Ahmadis, Ibadi and Sufis.[24]

JudaismEdit

Main article: Judaism in Africa

Adherents of Judaism can be found scattered in a number of countries across Africa; including North Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Southern Africa

Hinduism Hinduism has existed in Africa mainly since the late 19th century. There are an estimated 2-2.5 million adherents of Hinduism in Africa. It is the largest religion in Mauritius,[32] and several other countries have Hindu temples.[citation needed] Hindus came to South Africa as indentured laborers in the 19th century. The young M.K. Gandhi lived and worked among the Indian community in South Africa for twenty years before returning to India to participate in India’s freedom movement.[33