LadyDay wrote:
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ijexa wrote>>What I have tried to highlight... is that African traditional Islamic and Christian institutions have in some cases like the Egyptian... Nubian and Ethiopian churchs... have a long standing history whichÂ*pre-date their European counterparts...
And it is these things fromÂ*a cultural... historical and spiritual perspective that deserve to be protected... and it is that which I am putting to the Christians and Muslims... with the implied question that shouldn't even every aspect of their belief as an African operate within the framework... in a way that strengthens the communial base...
Every... single belief system has a cultural bias... and if the cultural bias of any Africans belief system does not spring from an African cultural/spiritual basis... then in must spring from and reinforce a non-African basis... and in this world of cultural conflict and supremacy... every choice... even a spiritual one... tips the balance either for or against...
i understand your point which. are there any sites in which i could look this up or books even
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I totally agree. It is very interesting to read the responses,in particular to Islam. Last year I converted and now I am out of it. Basically becasue I feel that it is just the same as Christianity. It is someone elses faith,not the African peoples amd their descendants. Ijexa(pretty name) you mentioned that black Muslims should follow an African form. I think that you have the right idea,but still,Islam is a foreign religion,no matter how much you indigenize it. Just something that people should keep in mind.
although I don't practice Islam anymore,I still loooove that gnawa music. Anyone else a fan,of say Hassan Hakmoun?banana.gifbanana.gif
Medusa