Africa Defines

Nelson Asienwa: My First Visiting Day. : So the special day had come, the visiting day. It was the first Sunday of the month and everyone but I was prepared to see their parents. I...

So the special day had come, the visiting day. It was the first Sunday of the month and everyone but I was prepared to see their parents. In class seven, my dad had taught me perseverance during such special days by neither turning up nor sending someone to visit me but trust me, I used to eat on this day more than anyone. Baraka was my desk mate and his parents never missed to come. “If my parents fail to come, heaven will break loose,” boasted Baraka whose father was a police officer while the mother was a teacher. For me, my father, a high school teacher knew his son was well, strong and studying hard to achieve his future dreams. Baraka was so kind to me for he always took me along to go and feast on those hot chapattis and kuku. I remember how Baraka had called his mother the previous day commanding her not to forget to bring more chapattis and chicken. Few minutes after church service, parents began arriving. I was on my way to class when I met Linda. Yes, she had captured m...

Africa has been regarded as the darkest  of all  continents yet wealthy in resources. More than two centuries ago, Africans worshiped their own supreme God. But just when African land was invaded by the Europeans and Arabs, Christianity,Hinduism and Islam began to take root. Fear was created by the so called missionaries who later on provided a condition that for one to be a Christian, one had to have a Christian name.  Does religion affect the name or is it one's spiritual endeavor! The African culture has since deteriorated and soon we will be dominated by foreign cultures. Ask a 30 year old African man some important issues in his culture and he won't tell you anything. So was religion created to benefit the few or worship God ?If so, then which is the true religion? Is it Christianity where it is believed Jesus the Son Of God is the way, the truth and life, or the Muslim who worship God through Prophet Mohamed but disregard Jesus as being the son of God, or Hindus w...