TRIBAL GODS OF AFRICA ETHNICITY, RACISM, TRIBALISM.. & – Paperback

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TRIBAL GODS OF AFRICA – Paperback – ETHNICITY, RACISM, TRIBALISM AND THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST Revised Edition 2019 by Yusufu Turaki

An African once gave a stern warning to a Christian missionary from Europe in the early 1990s, saying, “do nothing to arouse the anger of Tribal Gods. For if you did, they could destroy both you and the entire humanity.’’ As a child growing up in Africa, I have come across several of such warning not to disturb the peace and tranquility of Africa. But as one looks at the contemporary Africa scene and its condition, one may ask, “Is this a prophetic fulfillment of such warnings?” What one sees around today is the prevailing destructions of Africans as a people, their humanity, society/communities and states. These are quite alarming, frightening and this pogrom increase in intensity and magnitude every passing day. Can this be the manifestation of wrath of ‘Tribal Gods of Africa’ or of something else? Whether this assertion is true or not, the question is, ‘by what means can this obnoxious phenomenon in Africa be explained and resolved’? ‘What lies beneath ethnic, racial, tribal and cultural tensions, violence and conflicts in Africa’? Are there some hidden, wicked, perennial and intransigent forces at work in Africa?

The disintegration of African state, societies and social values and the dehumanization of man in Africa call to question ‘African leadership’. African leadership has failed to stop the dearth and stem the tide of social crisis and chaos. It has also failed to grand man a stable government. There is some thing, which is fundamentally wrong with leadership in Africa. African leadership has of itself suffered terribly under the cruel hands of ethnocentrism, racism and tribalism.

African leadership is important in the face of Africa’s contemporary problems. It stands and stares at them hopelessly and helplessly. The lack of moral will and ethical strength by leadership in Africa has been identified as the most serious issue and problem facing Africa today. This problem has its roots in African ethnicity, racism and tribalism.

In spite of the fact that Africans are indeed a religious people and have even embraced universal, such as, Christianity, Islam, and western modernity in addition to their own tradition religions and cultural values, yet the “visions of man and freedom” as contained in these traditions have left man mostly in chains in Africa. The visions of humanity and its potentials