Wanna know real fact? The real King Solomon/Suryavarnman was a brown Asiatic Asian man who lived in Se-Asia where the real Solomon/suryavarnman Temple (Vat in Khmer matching Vat-ican meaning Holy ground??) stand facing West mention in scriptures....... biblehub.com/1_kings/7-21.htm
Johnny Johnson you don’t know what ur talking about our king has Oromo blood so. Look up the definition of colonization if you are the same person how are you supposed to do that
@Johnny Johnson Colonization has always been a part of african history, the abyssinians were not the only africans who colonized other africans. This has been done by multiple african leaders, so there have been several black colonizers in Africa and outside. Liberia was colonized by african americans. Slavery has also been a part of african history generally. So this doesn't exclude the rest of Africa
Just a quick input Ethiopia was already a Christian state by the 4th century So as an Ethiopian finding out later on that some people think Christianity was brought to Africa is just laughable
@@robertjohns6701 I'm not too sure how Micheal Angelo depicted this but I am Orthodox Christian (as most of Ethiopia is) if this in any way answers your question
Helena Zelle, How was god/Jesus depicted then, when Christianity started in Ethiopia?....obviously this was before printing and photography....I guess my question is, what image the Ethiopian Christian churches showed as god’s image when printing and photography became possible?...I’ve been to Ethiopia and attended church, one maybe, but it had a white Jesus....never saw a black Jesus...
Jan Pearson : that the image presented may not be the correct depiction of this god; that if nobody surely knows, then the whole Christian thing was designed or created for a purpose, cause nobody worships a god that’s not in their own colour....
What's so interesting is .. Christianity "came" to Africa, What was there before it came? Now I did not come to take anybody's Jesus from them, because black folks fight for that one, I am just asking "if it came to Africa, what was there before it came?
The God of Abram Issac and Jacob was always present. The continents were joined together and there was Tower of Babel. Then things broke off and the Babylonian mysteries began to mix with what the ancestors and their descendants did. This is why looking at ALL demographics you can see some similarities in the unclean rituals vs the godly ones. Jesus was Jewish when on Earth and belief in His Way only became known as Christianity later which is why it "came" and "went" different places. Jesus was a Palestinian Jew- a middle eastern. And nothing can be taken away from someone when they know the truth. When they see people delivered from demons. When they see people healed in Jesus' name. When they come to the truth and freedom of repentance. Jesus if Lord. And In the beginning the was the Word who still is. I AM was there.
land, gold, diamond etc "When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible" - Jomo Kenyatta
This video clearly has some major discrepancies, 1. Israel apart of the content of Africa. 2. How do you qualify the Bible as a Christian book when the term Christian comes from the Greek nation, provide a precept to prove your position. 3. What tenets of Christianity did Yahshuah aka Jesus preach and practice. 4. Why was the Ethiopian Eunuch coming from Jerusalem and are you saying the literature concerning the prophecy out of Isaiah is Christianity you need to produce precept for that position also. 5. Also do you know the difference between Descendants of ham and descendants of Shem? For the record a lot of African tribes where practitioners of the Torah due to Solomon marrying the Ethiopian queen, Ethiopians always had affinity with the Israelite nation. Might want to do more research on this.
J.I.K “He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.” Psalms 147:19-20 KJV This is why we know it to be true.
What does proud to be Congolese mean to you? Does it mean that you are proud that King Alfonso the first joined with the Jesuits in order to oust the Jews that lived in the Kongo empire during the Portuguese Inquisition? Does it mean that you are proud that the went to areas outside of the kingdom to enslave people? Do you say that you are proud to be kind of days because your king thought it was okay to sell Africans during the Inquisition in Europe? I am curious to know what your product. I am triangle is also from the diaspora are the Jewish people who lives under the kingdom. And yet, I too am a proud Congolese.
The first christian empire in Afrika was Ethiopia. But the first was the Roman empire. Ethiopia became a Christian nation many years after it began in Rome.
Princess Menen that does not mean much because Christianity was still foreign to the people of the continent of Africa. And Africans had already had their own spirituality. As the original human race and were the only race for hundreds of years if not millions. We had developed the oldest spiritual system which is undoubtedly the source of all major religions. We were the first to come up with the very concept of a God or a Supreme Being. African spirituality is where you find the very first concept of trinity, "Sun" of God, death and resurrection, laws/commandments, judgment ect...All that stuff was recorded on paper, and that was at least 3,000 years before Christianity. Christianity is nothing, but a plagiarized form of African spirituality, designed by the white man to conquer, and control. Africans don't need Christianity to know or be in harmony with the Supreme Being. We had known the Creator way before the idea of Christianity even came up.
Thank you for another OBJECTIVE and Non-Bias Video. Unfortunately, to many people in the comments have Already made up their mind before watching the video smh.... Black people can be Christian, Muslim , Atheist, or even follow ancient African Spirituality. That’s all cool . However let’s be historically accurate with our statements. Don’t call my beliefs the “White man’s” Religion, because evidently it isn’t. Jesus wasn’t white, and *some* of the first Christian Kingdoms were African and became so without force and of their own accord....
Yoyo Bae There’s no “white man’s” or “Black man’s” way of Practicing. Christianity knows know Colour. Christ said make disciples of all Nations. I follow what’s in the gospel, not what race obsessed individuals suggest..
Samuel Appiah a raceless persona has damaging consequences. 🍉 you might end up in a situation where you have to choose between your race and religion. Christianity is not really 1 thing, this was something rediscovered by the majority during the reformation, a personal faith is the result, giving people a personal spirituality without fear of that being a condemable choice. this was something found in earlier writings were people felt free to think of creative ways in which God relates to us. this was however thwarted by a desire for solidarity amongst believing people, which some rejected causing political enmity against the power gaining Rome; which would define Christianity in interlectual terms communal terms, which undermine the individual spirituality of people. 😄 ok but anyway the thing is, your race is something much more personal and meaningful in a measurable way. I doubt that Christianity can fulfil black people or liberate them
Harmony Well Again, I’ll never have to choose between Christianity and my race, I might have to choose between the *Church* and my race, but never between the doctrine and my race....
That Ethiopian man was definitely reading the old testament and on his way to Jerusalem to "worship" and was converted according to the Bible. It only makes sense for him to return to Ethiopia taking what he had received with him and sharing it with everyone including the Queen and other devout, noble, and important Ethiopians. This would be the oldest evidence that not only the knowledge of Jesus Christ was in at the very least Ethiopia but also there were Jews or Jewish converts in Ethiopia too. Also in the book of Acts chapter 2 it says there were Devout Jews in Jerusalem from Egypt, Libya, and Cyrene.
We still got black Jews in Ethiopia Amhara region of Gonder & Gojam . We are also the source of Nile Ghion in which it is mentioned in the Genesis among one of the rivers which floods through heaven!
Eric Lane 100% facts ...Judaism has always been in the Horn of Africa .. the Ethiopian was reading the Old Testament and most likely he was practicing Judaism and couldn’t decipher the scriptures in regards to Christ and therefore he converted from Judaism to Christianity or one can call him a Messianic Jew because to my knowledge the label “Christian” wasn’t giving to Christ followers yet during that time and that label came later. Pagans that converted to Christianity are called Christian but if one was already practicing Judaism and believe in Christ therefore he or she will be call a messianic Jew but labels don’t mean nothing.. messianic Jew or Christian is all the same but different ways of observing and practicing their believe.
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@@ginseng7 Ethiopia and Sudan ARE NOT part of the horn of Africa! Ethiopia's ancient history is along the Nile and the deserts of Sudan to Egypt, her sister. The people even look alike! Abyssinians are Semitic and Cushitic; meaning, they are related to the same Ethiopians in the book of Acts! To the haters - don't think your hate and jealousy for Abyssinians will change that!
Coptic Christians in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been there before colonialism. Protestants and Catholics became so through colonialism. Every case of african Christianity outside of this is a very small negligible percentage.
quote me something, don't just claim it. "When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible" - Jomo Kenyatta
The story about Phillip baptizing the Ethiopian official can be found in the book called Kebra Negus (The glory of the Kings). It details how he went back to Ethiopia and told the story to Queen Candice who then gets baptized and also baptized her entire family and household and thus Christianity started around 60-100 AD. So my friend African was following Christ long before the European ever considered it. Love and light
This is an important but forgotten part of Christian history. Thank you for sharing. It is also worth noting that Zipporah the wife of Moses was a Cushite.
@@familyslove7036 ....spare us the afrocentric rants. So who created white people? didn't he want them to attain salvation? The bible was written by mostly Eastern/southern euroeans and converted Jews. It has so many distortions that it ridiculously contradicts itself. The reason you are inclined to think "blacks" must understand the bible because "they" wrote it, proves how the biblical notion of Jews as chosen people has affected your brain, only that you've seen substituted it with afrocentrism! Christianity is a joke 🤣🤣🤣
Mkali Kwanza What an ignorant comment. People like you are the first people to complain about the white man is hiding our history. Yet when one takes an interest you attack them. He's clearly not a white supremacist troll so what is your issue?
@@WilliamGarrow .... I didn't mean to cause racial strife. My issue is that Africa was tricked by Western colonists-cum-missionaries to adopt Christianity. But today, many westerners have seen the discrepancies in the bible and rejected Christianity. So I'm wondering why are westerners so concerned about Christianity in Africa. It's because they want to lord over them as it is the only strong market for Christian lies.
Great video, I'm a Zambian living abroad, and Afrikan Christianity 1st came to my country via my tribe the bemba (a royal clan from the kingdom of Kongo) in 1328 after our long relationship with Portugal in the Kongo. It is important to understand that original Afrikan Christianity is completely different from the European Christianity brought through missionaries before, during and after colonisation of 90% of the continent. Afrikan Christianity was well accepted as one of many forms of spirituality amongst the many other older forms of Afrikan spirituality. Pre colonisation Christianity was brought in by Europeans and was written off the templates of Roman Catholic and Anglican Christianity to mention a few, which of course the Vatican still hold ultimate power in our modern-day. This was because Christianity was turned into one of the earliest forms of organised religion in Europe itself, and was used to wipe out all other non-Christian (pagan) faiths in Britain to be specific and vilified all their worshippers for centuries to come. This was and still is the current form of Christianity that was used in pre-colonisation, during colonisation and now in neo-colonialism. It vilifies all other indigenous African faiths and it is globally evident that geographical regions that have held on to there indigenous faiths have had a direct correlation with there cultural success and have then fostered successful independent globally recognised economies, (the great Chinese dynasty in China, the Nordic religions in Sweden and other European countries, the Celtic faiths of Scotland just to mention a few). So, should an African be born into or even be forced into being a Christian such as my own country Zambia "Christian nation" expects? To then embrace European Christianity and therefore undermine or even negate our own indigenous faiths? I and many Pan-African believe not, our education system was and still is from the west and does not even teach our true history yet alone at the very least, promote our indigenous faiths.
You speak truth, am from zambia too and i attest to this, it was imposed on my ancestors and therefore its not for me. My great grandpa was not a Christian, i believe he is one of the few who refused it.
Christianity was imposed on colonial africa , Christianity in Ethiopia which is very close to middle east, might be voluntarily praticed and therefore more vigilant. First rule about Christianity in colonial africa is :Blessed are the poor, the weak shall inherit the earth. All new testament nonsense originating from Paul. gtfo here with your morality of the slave... the weakling.
Before Christianity it was called manifesting, strong believers of kingdom unity by using dance and gatherings, Giving to the forest as it gave back, eating none man made foods, belief in many Gods, such as Isis goddess of fertility, Ra the Sun God ECT, strong believers in themselves*spiritual people who believe in the Supreme Being called the Universe* erb doctors who healed but were called withes by Europeans* and after death it was reincarnation not a hell and heaven* That was African religion culture and traditions before Christianity* it terrified the Europeans* the African strength was strong* they needed to soften their mind with quotes such as if u get hit on one cheek turn so I can hit the other or u will get ur glory in Heaven* this way they could colonize them* take away their power and they will be easier to manipulate* and thats what happened, queen Revelonia saw this and tried to do away with missionaries bringing Christianity and still till this day they call her barbaric for her trying to save her people from Christianity. P.S ur Christian Jesus was not black he was Arabian
"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible" - Jomo Kenyatta
Then what did Kenyatta do after independence? The same thing, plundered the Highlands and productive lands of Kenya for himself Up to this moment Kenya is feeling the effect of this theft Look for truth Don't be biased just because you have a negative view of Christianity
Please add some references / links on your videos to see where you got your information so that we can learn more . Thank you for the good work that you are doing.
You should do more of these videos bro. It’s very informative. Most people think the only reason any black people believe is because of slavery. That’s simply not true.
Jezre3L That is why most black people believe in it. I knew Ethiopians were Christians but most of Africa was not Christians. In the 16th century the Portuguese made the Kingdom of Kongo convert. It was suppose to be to prevent them from slavery.
AnonBelieverOfGovLiez how do I not know what I talking about when it’s clearly documented that the spaces that came to America were from West africa and all spoke different language and had their own folk religion and spirituality. Don’t try and gaslight me to make me seem like I’m crazy
Great video man but I still think it would be a bit better if you could link your information in sources for us to do further digging from a good starting point. also just helps keep the haters away.
Christianity came to Africa (Ethiopia) and was established there many years before it reached Europe - see 'Acts of the Apostles' chapter 8. About a quarter of the Bishops who formed the Council of Nicea in 325 AD which defined Christianity as it is today were AFRICANS.
First of all Christians originated for the Middle East that’s where all of this start, and just a fun fact Rome was transitioning for pegan to Christian from 305ad to 335ad and it was rough transition it wasn’t until 380ad every Roman was christan
@@Okay-pr9fppoint is the 1800s justification of "we bring Christianity to Africa" is a total sham, and prior to Ethiopia there also was the Coptic Christians of Egypt also in Africa.
FACT: The first mention of African converts to Christianity is in Acts Chapter 1:5,10 on the day of Pentecost. The book of Acts specifically mentions the Africans that were present of that day.
The Acts 1- 2 people were all ethnically Jewish but had travelled to Jerusalem for Jewish festival of Shavout which is also known as Pentecost. So the Africans mentioned in Acts 1- 2 were nationally Africans but ethnically Jewish. So the Ethiopian in Acts 2 is the first non Jewish convert to Christianity. Also before the Roman converts in Acts 10. So even convert wise Africans embraced Christianity before Europeans. Same with whole nations being Christian. Ethiopia became a Christian nation in 3rd century. Roman empire only in 4th century. 😬🙌🏼
Just like how Christianity was forced on everyone Egyptians, Greeks, Asians, and Celts but there were a lot of groups who willingly converted to Christianity.
Highly useful. I've spent a lot of time with my students discussing how Islam entered the West African Empires but we haven't talked much about Christianity.
*When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.* Desmond Tutu
@Helen Hovhannisyan Armenians wee killed because the ottomon's no longer trusted you not because you were christian the young turks did not like islam themselves.
This was an interesting video and it cleared up some of my misconceptions on Christianity in Africa. You should do videos on the history of Islam and jewdism as well and again thank you for clearing up my misconceptions also I suggest doing a video on the African people’s outside of Africa like the Siddi people in India
As a black atheist, I certainly understand the need of these ancient religions over ancient peoples before an understanding of science. Most people needed some way to try and understand the world they lived in and without the modern day science through geology, biology, chemistry, astronomy, genetics, and modern medicine, this was a scary world to live in. So we filled it with several deities in an attempt to understand it. We are beginning to move out of these ancient religions of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religions into a true age of enlightenment through science and we will be better for it as we truly embrace our shared humanity as the surviving hominid species from the continent of Africa where all races came according to science.
Sgtbigmike Well as a Black Christian, i’ll thank-you for your polite and intelligent comment. However with that being said I wouldn’t agree with you entirely. I mean the fathers of modern day Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy and Practically all Modern day Sciences and Scientific theories were Christians. Bacon , Galleleio , Newton , Darwin who popularized the theory of evolution, and the man that created the big bang theory was a Catholic Priest. I feel like Science explains how our world works, however as many of these Scientists explained and realized, Religion details how to work in this world....
The father of biology Aristotle, was not a Christian. The father of evolution was not a Christian. Albert Einstein was only born Jewish but himself had a shaky opinion of his own faith. The problem with many religions was that they were indoctrinated on the masses and therefore, you were born with little choice in the matter. Also, in many cases, the penalty for denial of faith was harsh to include incarceration or even burning alive at the stake. Galileo himself was convicted for his findings in science that went against the scripture and was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. It's under these pretenses that it's very difficult to judge scientists of the past off of their regions of the past. It's only been in the 20th and now 21st centuries that you will continue to see an increase in scientists who of course, are completely willing to announce their findings in lack of scientific evidence to back both Biblical and Quran scriptures. Modern day science is evidence based, it can be changed based on the evidence at hand. Religion is not evidenced based, it does not change regardless of what the evidence presents, it works out no details unless by mere coincidence and without evidence it would not explain them.
Sgtbigmike Darwin the father of Evolution was a Christian theist.... Furthermore I never said *Every* famous scientists was a Christian, I was trying to say most of the founding fathers of modern day Science, I.e the Scientific revolution were Christian. Which would therefore not include Aristotle since he was pre-Scientific revolution. And yes it’s absolutely horrible what the church in the history has done to those who’ve challenged their interpretations, however that doesn’t make the theological documents itself wrong, nor the scientists relationship with Jesus Christ either. Science will always change because it’s evidence based, and because the evidence of how the natural world operates will change of course. However Religion is not a description of how the Natural world works, it’s how we operate in this world, It’s how we live our lives, treat others, it’s what is greater than us, in my humble opinion of course. At the end of the day I respect your beliefs, and I’m glad to see another educated brother with knowledge about the history of Science as we definitely could use some more brothers like you lool . Peace ✌🏿
Samuel Appiah There were people who came up with the evolution hypothesis prior Darwin. For example, Al-Jahiz, a Black Arab scholar in the 8th century who elucidated on the concept of food chains and basic evolution.
Samuel Appiah You are on everyone’s comment threads with the same cult member brand of logic. Prove your god exists and stop spewing what a bunch of European liars said and wrote. Are you a Black man for real? I can’t tell..💯
Well done ! This is a subject that interests me, many of the early church fathers were born in Africa like Saint Augustine he was born in Algeria and is one of the most important figures in Christianity, the Nubian Church was an important part of early Christianity and even took part in the crusades, anyway love your page
FANTASTIC VIDEO! But, I see the devils are out in the comments section to contradict the video with their lies and nonsense. Typical and expected. I hope you do more of these African Christian videos! New subscriber!
I really appreciate this. I've gotten into so many arguments over this topic. As an African American who happens to be a Christian, the "woke" community constantly tells me that I'm a traitor and a sellout for partaking in the "White man's religion." I always mention what you just explained so well in this video, but to no avail. Maybe next time I'll share this link. Thanks.
They have such a deep hate for anything that reminds them of white people that they blindly believe that Christianity belongs to white people. Keep believing in Christianity if you want.
Anton Takashima ..u r you just need some for justification to support your argument Christianity is not a native tongue or religion or spirituality he's talking about everything after ad what about civilization religion spirituality and BC and BCE there wasn't no Christianity in BC or BCE my brother
The West Africans were originally the North Africans, but escaped to the west when the muslim/arab invasion happen. Also Christianity survived for 100 years before the colonisation of the Europeans. When the Portuguese first came, they built hospitals, schools etc. So they were also traces of Christianity in the west before slavery.
@@peripheralhandshakerwhat are you yapping about? West Africans are not originally North Africans.many of them are just southern and East Africans that immigrated west Africa. they are not originally North Africans.
And before the Roman empore occupied Egypt helping in the spread of Christianity they held their own indigenous African beliefs too. That's the way of the world
Christianity was never brought to Africa, maybe only to some parts of Africa. I don't understand why people are acting like west Africa (which is where the translantic-slave trade was taking place mostly) is the representation for the whole continent. Christianity existed in Ethiopia and north Africa way before it spread to Europe and other parts of Africa.
Thank you for this video. I am a student studying Christianity in Africa. This video was very helpful and educational. Several points I did not know. Thanks again.
Charles/Marilyn Billington, exactly that what happened, so the entry point must be the recovery point,kongo Kingdom holds such key. Carefully read below:Please READ: Exodus 12:40. Also do your own research, King John I or Nzinga NKUWU from the Kongo Kingdom received baptism in 1491, the official entry of Christianity into Africa, because the brand of Christianity which entered Ethiopia and Egypt had not spread throughout the continent as such had no spiritual impact on us as Africans. After King Nzinga Nkuwu's baptism, which meant that Africa had lost its spiritual powers, the start of paying back for our forefathers sins in ancient Egypt. In 1706, Kimpa Vita preached and prophesied the return to our ancestral spirituality, is burnt alive together with her child and husband by Catholic priests, before getting into the fire, she promised the return of her son to reveal to Africans and blacks in general, the lies of Christianity. In 1921, Mfumu Kimbangu Mvuluzi denounced Christianity and started preaching our African ancestral religion,during the 3 months performed greater miracles never seen or heard by any prophet on this planet, from Jesus to Muhammad, three months later was arrested and spent 30 years in prison; his crime was he had misinterpreted the Bible. To conclude: 1491-1706, we have 215, which is half of 430 yrs(this means Africa should have been free along time ago, but our brothers participated in burning Kimpa Vita , when she begged them not to do so), From 1491-1921, we have 430 years, the total of years the time when the Israelites stayed and were mistreated by our Egyptian ancestors. So, Mfumu Kimbangu Mvuluzi is the saviour of Africa and of the black race, it is time to recognise him and leave all those oppressive and imported Religions, thus to please God and our ancestors. Any questions, please ask. INGETA, Hotep
Ethiopia has some of the oldest Christian communities, churches and villages in the world. Arguably some of them dating back less than a century after Christs death.
Christianity, islam and Judaism have nothing to do with black ppl. Our ppl were spiritual ppl who channelled the god within and praised their ancestors
I really appriciate your videos. Great and educational content! Sometimes though i feel you mix historical facts: When you say Ethiopia do you mean what was then known as the Aksumite Empire? That means what in our modern day is known as Eritrea, Djibouti and Ethiopia. Remember Ethiopia under Menelik II turned even more to a settler state. Pretty much up to now (Oromo, Ogaden...etc). Any reflection on that?
sufism preaches a lot of things that are not part of Islam. some sufis dance around graves and some worship saints. this is all wrong and against Islam.
Excellent video and a wealth of information. Finally! You've save the best for last, there's still more to this subject on christianity's long standing relationship with Africa. PEACE.
Thank for this video brother. I am sure you have included this in other content but Africa and mostly Kush is prominently mentioned in the Old Testament starting in Genesis. Bible scholars mention that the people of Kush spread all across Africa into and throughout Asia. This is perhaps why you find dark-skinned people with African Features in Ancient China, Japan, Cambodia, Laos, The Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. I am sure you know that Moses wife was an Ethiopian woman and there were Ethiopians that were among the original Hebrew People. Jewish believers came from the Middle East and Africa to Jerusalem for the Passover each year. This is why we have reason to believe that African were among the 150 gathered in the Upper Room in Acts 2.
I dont agree with the "idea" where they said.. black ppl only originate in africa and if tgey are found in other area or continents They must've been brought as slaves or migrated .. i feel as tho black-dark skinned ppl are originated where they are in asia/middle east/natives in australia america
@@rediettadesse2828 I agree with you not all black skinned people throughout the world were “slaves.” Indeed many of them did indeed migrate. Some were indigenous. Thank you for mentioning the Aboriginal people of Australia.
this was really interesting, it'd be dope if you dropped sources in the description though because I can't take anything as it is on RUclips without proof. I can't tell if anything is well researched because I don't know much about Christianity or the African diaspora.
It was really good. And you have to know one of the worlds ancient religious(Christianity ) icons are in Africa in Ethiopia and Egypt before many years earlier than the Europeans.
Ethiopiar mentioned more than 40 times in the bible Not only ethiopians(blacks) knew the bible before europeans .. Even the bible knew ethiopia before n after jesus😄😄😊 The second oldest church IN THE WORLD
My question is though: If the first Europeans arrived in Africa for the first time in 1471; how did they have a bible that included stories of Christ who was born in Africa, centuries before their arrival in Africa?
Ethiopians were Christians 500 years before the Vatican ever existed. Ethiopians Have the oldest Bible in the world containing all 81 books! The Book of Creation Genesis in the Old Testament only mentions African countries Using their ancient or modern names, eg Abssynia/Ethiopia being the first country mentioned in the Bible...what Iam saying is the Old Testament is an African book Stolen by Rome!
Your first part is true. Ethiopians were indeed among the first christian kingdom (although to be exact the first christian kingdom was Armenia) but your ending make no sense. Rome stole the book of Old testament? You mean they invaded Ethiopia, took all the copies of the old testament, burned them all and returned back to Rome to make a new version?
Mathew is a book that is dated to the first century. When you quote it, your quoting people from the time period. All he was showing is that there was trade and relations with Africans dated to the time period. YOu dont have to believe Jesus or the bible is the word of God to see that point.
@@southbend76 No ancient books have dates in them. There is a method historians use called "Textual Criticism" that gives them a rough estimate of when a texts was written. They do this with ALL ancient texts. Not just the bible.
The Garden of Eden is where Africa was first mentioned. Genisis 2:10i14 KJV And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. Ethiopia was a part of the Garden of Eden.
From my study, Christianity spread to west Africa through the trade and migration of Berber tribes first across North Africa to subsaharan Africa. This video was really disappointing scholarship. The bible is not a reliable reference for a historical study.
uncolonizedmind He never used the Bible to discuss Afro-Christian history, he simply used the Bible to prove the *presence* of Africans in the Bible....
He didn't use the Bible. The fact that you say he did is evidence of two things. 1. You obviously haven't read the Bible. 2. You haven't done any proper study on the history. Because if you read the Bible you would know. And if you had studied the historical accounts outside the Bible you would know.
Analytical Process Yeah I agree, I laugh whenever people say the Bible isn’t Historically accurate, or you can’t use the Bible as a history book, like I guess the Kingdoms Israel, Judah, the Babylonian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Jewish/Hebrew peoples, etc are all fake or not real Bc the Bible mentions them?
He never explains in any detail how Christianity came to be know or spread in Africa. He talks about an Ethiopian being converted then says a Nubian was the first know then points to 3 Christian kingdoms. He brings up the trade routes but doesn't acknowledge that's white people bringing their religion with them. The Roman empire was the first country to declare Christianity as its religion (380 AD) and it owned everything that touched the Mediterranean Sea. Including Africa. The religion came to Africa via the Roman empire. Who were the original colonizers..
My brother you are very selective with your historical review on Christianity in Africa. First off Jesus was not a Christian so the fact that he was taken to Egypt as a child has no meaning in relation to Christianity. The fact that he met a man Simon has nothing to do with Christianity because there was no such movement as Christianity at that time. Simon was more that likely a Jew from Cyrene which was located in northern Africa in eastern Libya. It was at the time a Greek city in the province of Cyrenaica, which had a Jewish community where 100,000 Judean Jews had been forced to settle during the reign of Ptolemy Soter (323-285 BC). Also, your presentation gives the impression that Christianity naturally spread through Africa just like it did elsewhere. But this is not a fact. Christianity was mostly spread by colonization. The Kongo king you mentioned was influenced by trading possibilities with Portugal and that influenced him becoming a Catholic convert. The Portuguese were interested in exploiting Africa and as history shows the outcome was indeed exploitation that lasted for centuries. Why did you faile to mention the history of missionaries in Africa? "At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were practising Christians, apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire (modern Congo Brazzaville and western DR Congo)." "In the 1800's, Catholic missionary expeditions were launched with new vigour to the West, in Senegal and Gabon. Protestant missionaries took up work in Sierra Leone in 1804. The missionaries represented a big spectrum of denominations or churches: Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, many of them in competition and conflict with each other" (BBC 19th Century White Missionaries). Furthermore, check the history of the Society for Missions to Africa and the East (as the society was first called) was founded on 12 April 1799. If we tell the history we should tell all of it so that we can really be freed from misconception. Replacing one misconception with another is not the way to go. Thank you
Yes I agree with you. Simon of Cyrene was most likely Greek as Cyrene was a Greek city even though it was in Present day Libya. Yes Jesus did live in Egypt, yet that doesn’t mean that Christianity was spread as there was no Christianity at the time. What I can say however is that people in Ethiopia could have been Jews because after the Queen of Sheba returned to her kingdom after visiting Solomon, she might have converted after seeing the wealth and wisdom God had given to Solomon. Christianity did spread to north Eastern Africa during the time of Jesus and the apostles, but inner Africa was untouched by this. And last but not the least I don’t know why people say that Christianity is a White man’s religion as Jesus wasn’t white. I am not claiming that he was black either, but he would have looked like however Israelites looked like. After all the Israelites couldn’t marry foreign people as God had instructed so there is no way that Jesus had European blood in him.
@@manakamuhammad6936 congo was ethiopia ? WHAT THE FAUQE ? WHO TOLD YOU THAT ? ethiopia used both names interchangeably with abysinnia for centuries (1 million proves)
hi admin forgive me if i'm out of context but if you have any knowledge of what i'm about to ask could you please elaborate on the first white pharaoh "Constantine" relation to Christianity. Thank you
I think it’s interesting that people will use the Bible as proof. If we are debating whether Christianity is original to Africa, it would be more helpful to refer to references that don’t have to do with the Bible.
No. That would be foolish. But to assume that my own people had no spirituality, no philosophy, no morality and we needed outsiders to teach us these things? NO! The thing about our traditions is we had no concept of exclusivity. We had no problem with learning from other traditions and incorporating things we found useful on our own terms. We didn't need to be saved and we were never immoral and ignorant and it's the latter assumptions that I disagree with. Having said all that, I think it's obvious that there is no reason why Africans couldn't borrow new technologies and adapt them just as every other society has done.
I can see that you do your research but how can you look at the Congo and say and a North African empire and say how Christianity entered the WHOLE continent of Africa? Are you implying that all of west Africa is the Congo?
Review Walter William's The Historical Origins of Islam and Christianity. You tube. As a man you should not be so gullible to another man. Anyone can create a video and say whatever. This video will perpetrate your ignorance.
Hotspurs247 only North Africa was in a conquest and those people were already Arabs how ever west Africa became Muslim they trade same with east Africa which converted while the prophet was still alive due to the fact that when Muslims were percecuted they went to absynia and Islam spread into Somalia and the Swahili coast and as far as Mozambique
That is correct. Christianity began in Northern Africa. Kemet is in Northern Africa. There is no such place as the middle east. The first Christian church is the Hagia Sophia. The teachers were African Kemetics. The Church was eventually moved to Rome. Christianity became the official state religion of the Greco roman world by an ecumenical Council called the council of Chalcedom 451. You must go to the Nile Valley for the source. The Historical Origin of Christianity, Walter Williams The Africa n Origins of the Three Major World Religions, Dr. Ben Josef The Black Man and the Nile, Dr Ben Christianity Before the Christ, John G. Jackson Dr. John Henrik Clarke Stolen Legacy, The Sixteen Crucified Saviors, Kelsey Graves Egypt the Light of the World, Gerald Massey The Instructions of the Negroes in the United States, 1849, Charles Jones David Walker's Appeal 1820, David Walker
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Some people will still never accept these facts as it does not match their agenda.
Read the Torah.
Wanna know real fact? The real King Solomon/Suryavarnman was a brown Asiatic Asian man who lived in Se-Asia where the real Solomon/suryavarnman Temple (Vat in Khmer matching Vat-ican meaning Holy ground??) stand facing West mention in scriptures.......
biblehub.com/1_kings/7-21.htm
@@DJCole34 Torah teaches whiteman are Japheth offsprings.....
@@solomonking5097 Oh shut up! King Solomon was a Son of David and was 100% Jewish
@@solomonking5097 read Zephaniah 3:10
Crazy how some of the oldest churches can be found in Ethiopia yet, Ethiopia was never colonized by a European power.
Johnny Johnson you don’t know what ur talking about our king has Oromo blood so. Look up the definition of colonization if you are the same person how are you supposed to do that
@Johnny Johnson Colonization has always been a part of african history, the abyssinians were not the only africans who colonized other africans. This has been done by multiple african leaders, so there have been several black colonizers in Africa and outside. Liberia was colonized by african americans. Slavery has also been a part of african history generally. So this doesn't exclude the rest of Africa
@Johnny Johnson But ok, if Eritrea never was a part of Ethiopia/abyssinia then that means that yall weren't a part of the aksum kingdom right?
@Johnny Johnson Preacher from hell!
This is true %100 percent
Ethiopia was the first Christian Empire👍
and the only country to never have been colonized. They did suffer because they refused to be ruled by Elizabeth and her father. However they remain.
Abbi Williams Liberia also was in colonized so it wasn't the only country
Nubian Obadiah Eritrean Are rebellious anyway
The Flagged RUclipsr II it was an american colony
anonymous Ethiopia
How many of y'all do a African like shoulder bounce. When the drums come on.
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I'm guilty😂😂😂
Khallid Muhammed
Hey! How did you know I do that?😋
thought it was only me haha
Khallid Muhammed - It's the melanin.
Just a quick input
Ethiopia was already a Christian state by the 4th century
So as an Ethiopian finding out later on that some people think Christianity was brought to Africa is just laughable
Helena Zelle, I don’t suppose you worshiped the Jesus as depicted by Micheal Angelo?
@@robertjohns6701 I'm not too sure how Micheal Angelo depicted this but I am Orthodox Christian (as most of Ethiopia is) if this in any way answers your question
Helena Zelle, How was god/Jesus depicted then, when Christianity started in Ethiopia?....obviously this was before printing and photography....I guess my question is, what image the Ethiopian Christian churches showed as god’s image when printing and photography became possible?...I’ve been to Ethiopia and attended church, one maybe, but it had a white Jesus....never saw a black Jesus...
Jan Pearson : that the image presented may not be the correct depiction of this god; that if nobody surely knows, then the whole Christian thing was designed or created for a purpose, cause nobody worships a god that’s not in their own colour....
Jan Pearson and unfortunately I don’t relate that description with Africa.....he was never a Africa god....
What's so interesting is .. Christianity "came" to Africa, What was there before it came? Now I did not come to take anybody's Jesus from them, because black folks fight for that one, I am just asking "if it came to Africa, what was there before it came?
The God of Abram Issac and Jacob was always present. The continents were joined together and there was Tower of Babel. Then things broke off and the Babylonian mysteries began to mix with what the ancestors and their descendants did. This is why looking at ALL demographics you can see some similarities in the unclean rituals vs the godly ones. Jesus was Jewish when on Earth and belief in His Way only became known as Christianity later which is why it "came" and "went" different places. Jesus was a Palestinian Jew- a middle eastern. And nothing can be taken away from someone when they know the truth. When they see people delivered from demons. When they see people healed in Jesus' name. When they come to the truth and freedom of repentance. Jesus if Lord. And In the beginning the was the Word who still is. I AM was there.
paganism
I thought I was the only one... makes u think
land, gold, diamond etc
"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible"
- Jomo Kenyatta
@@Rizal12061986 was the bible in ethopia befor the catholics came
Christanity in Africa pre-dates Christanity in europe.
Surprising nobody as africa was right next door to the Levant
@Alethia 21 amen
This video clearly has some major discrepancies, 1. Israel apart of the content of Africa. 2. How do you qualify the Bible as a Christian book when the term Christian comes from the Greek nation, provide a precept to prove your position. 3. What tenets of Christianity did Yahshuah aka Jesus preach and practice. 4. Why was the Ethiopian Eunuch coming from Jerusalem and are you saying the literature concerning the prophecy out of Isaiah is Christianity you need to produce precept for that position also. 5. Also do you know the difference between Descendants of ham and descendants of Shem?
For the record a lot of African tribes where practitioners of the Torah due to Solomon marrying the Ethiopian queen, Ethiopians always had affinity with the Israelite nation. Might want to do more research on this.
J.I.K “And he said, 👉🏿Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; 👈🏿and Canaan shall be his servant.”
Genesis 9:26 KJV it’s based off covenant.
J.I.K “He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.”
Psalms 147:19-20 KJV
This is why we know it to be true.
Videos like these are the reason why I am subscribed to this channel. Proud to be Congolese!
What does proud to be Congolese mean to you?
Does it mean that you are proud that King Alfonso the first joined with the Jesuits in order to oust the Jews that lived in the Kongo empire during the Portuguese Inquisition? Does it mean that you are proud that the went to areas outside of the kingdom to enslave people? Do you say that you are proud to be kind of days because your king thought it was okay to sell Africans during the Inquisition in Europe?
I am curious to know what your product. I am triangle is also from the diaspora are the Jewish people who lives under the kingdom. And yet, I too am a proud Congolese.
What do you mean when you say that you are proud to be Congolese?
Jesus is a fictitious character.
If you really love Congo, then you need to accept the truth and start concentrating on making the world a better place.
@@adeamujale who's your savior?
The first Christian empire was Ethiopia the first Christian emperor is king/emperor Ezana
The first christian empire in Afrika was Ethiopia. But the first was the Roman empire. Ethiopia became a Christian nation many years after it began in Rome.
Butcher murderer
We’re not all Ethiopians you moron. West Africans weren’t Christians until Europeans colonized us
I though Armenia was 1st
Princess Menen that does not mean much because Christianity was still foreign to the people of the continent of Africa. And Africans had already had their own spirituality. As the original human race and were the only race for hundreds of years if not millions. We had developed the oldest spiritual system which is undoubtedly the source of all major religions. We were the first to come up with the very concept of a God or a Supreme Being. African spirituality is where you find the very first concept of trinity, "Sun" of God, death and resurrection, laws/commandments, judgment ect...All that stuff was recorded on paper, and that was at least 3,000 years before Christianity. Christianity is nothing, but a plagiarized form of African spirituality, designed by the white man to conquer, and control. Africans don't need Christianity to know or be in harmony with the Supreme Being. We had known the Creator way before the idea of Christianity even came up.
Thank you for another OBJECTIVE and Non-Bias Video. Unfortunately, to many people in the comments have Already made up their mind before watching the video smh.... Black people can be Christian, Muslim , Atheist, or even follow ancient African Spirituality. That’s all cool . However let’s be historically accurate with our statements. Don’t call my beliefs the “White man’s” Religion, because evidently it isn’t. Jesus wasn’t white, and *some* of the first Christian Kingdoms were African and became so without force and of their own accord....
Johnny Wright Lmfao that was nearly unintelligible. Please re-phrase
Yoyo Bae There’s no “white man’s” or “Black man’s” way of Practicing. Christianity knows know Colour. Christ said make disciples of all Nations. I follow what’s in the gospel, not what race obsessed individuals suggest..
Yoyo Bae a lot of Christians don’t even practise Christianity the white mans way.. like Nigerians and Ethiopians. Ethiopians especially.
Samuel Appiah a raceless persona has damaging consequences. 🍉 you might end up in a situation where you have to choose between your race and religion. Christianity is not really 1 thing, this was something rediscovered by the majority during the reformation, a personal faith is the result, giving people a personal spirituality without fear of that being a condemable choice. this was something found in earlier writings were people felt free to think of creative ways in which God relates to us. this was however thwarted by a desire for solidarity amongst believing people, which some rejected causing political enmity against the power gaining Rome; which would define Christianity in interlectual terms communal terms, which undermine the individual spirituality of people. 😄 ok but anyway the thing is, your race is something much more personal and meaningful in a measurable way. I doubt that Christianity can fulfil black people or liberate them
Harmony Well Again, I’ll never have to choose between Christianity and my race, I might have to choose between the *Church* and my race, but never between the doctrine and my race....
That Ethiopian man was definitely reading the old testament and on his way to Jerusalem to "worship" and was converted according to the Bible. It only makes sense for him to return to Ethiopia taking what he had received with him and sharing it with everyone including the Queen and other devout, noble, and important Ethiopians. This would be the oldest evidence that not only the knowledge of Jesus Christ was in at the very least Ethiopia but also there were Jews or Jewish converts in Ethiopia too. Also in the book of Acts chapter 2 it says there were Devout Jews in Jerusalem from Egypt, Libya, and Cyrene.
We still got black Jews in Ethiopia Amhara region of Gonder & Gojam . We are also the source of Nile Ghion in which it is mentioned in the Genesis among one of the rivers which floods through heaven!
The man wasn't from modern Ethiopia he was a kushite from the Sudan that's where Kantakes ruled not Abyssinia
Eric Lane 100% facts ...Judaism has always been in the Horn of Africa .. the Ethiopian was reading the Old Testament and most likely he was practicing Judaism and couldn’t decipher the scriptures in regards to Christ and therefore he converted from Judaism to Christianity or one can call him a Messianic Jew because to my knowledge the label “Christian” wasn’t giving to Christ followers yet during that time and that label came later. Pagans that converted to Christianity are called Christian but if one was already practicing Judaism and believe in Christ therefore he or she will be call a messianic Jew but labels don’t mean nothing.. messianic Jew or Christian is all the same but different ways of observing and practicing their believe.
@@ginseng7 Ethiopia and Sudan ARE NOT part of the horn of Africa! Ethiopia's ancient history is along the Nile and the deserts of Sudan to Egypt, her sister. The people even look alike! Abyssinians are Semitic and Cushitic; meaning, they are related to the same Ethiopians in the book of Acts! To the haters - don't think your hate and jealousy for Abyssinians will change that!
OG Yoda ' that use to be Ethiopia too once upon a time
Coptic Christians in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been there before colonialism. Protestants and Catholics became so through colonialism. Every case of african Christianity outside of this is a very small negligible percentage.
In the Bible. Some of the first people and places that were touched by the disciples of Christ were Africans/Africa.
Jezre3L Not Armenians ? ? Wut?
Nantz Stein "some" he might have typed... Maybe you read all ion kno
quote me something, don't just claim it.
"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible"
- Jomo Kenyatta
So what about Haussar
It was the Americas where all this started..
The story about Phillip baptizing the Ethiopian official can be found in the book called Kebra Negus (The glory of the Kings). It details how he went back to Ethiopia and told the story to Queen Candice who then gets baptized and also baptized her entire family and household and thus Christianity started around 60-100 AD. So my friend African was following Christ long before the European ever considered it. Love and light
True!
Never!!Who is Christ tell me?
Wow amazing I need to read that book
Thank you
The story of the Ethiopia Eunuch meeting with Philip is also found in the book of Acts in the new testament.
This is an important but forgotten part of Christian history. Thank you for sharing. It is also worth noting that Zipporah the wife of Moses was a Cushite.
Because Moses wad a black man. No white man written any Bible.
Do know how its hard for white to understand the Bible ?
@@familyslove7036 ....spare us the afrocentric rants. So who created white people? didn't he want them to attain salvation? The bible was written by mostly Eastern/southern euroeans and converted Jews. It has so many distortions that it ridiculously contradicts itself. The reason you are inclined to think "blacks" must understand the bible because "they" wrote it, proves how the biblical notion of Jews as chosen people has affected your brain, only that you've seen substituted it with afrocentrism! Christianity is a joke 🤣🤣🤣
Mkali Kwanza What an ignorant comment. People like you are the first people to complain about the white man is hiding our history. Yet when one takes an interest you attack them. He's clearly not a white supremacist troll so what is your issue?
@@WilliamGarrow .... I didn't mean to cause racial strife. My issue is that Africa was tricked by Western colonists-cum-missionaries to adopt Christianity. But today, many westerners have seen the discrepancies in the bible and rejected Christianity. So I'm wondering why are westerners so concerned about Christianity in Africa. It's because they want to lord over them as it is the only strong market for Christian lies.
Great video, I'm a Zambian living abroad, and Afrikan Christianity 1st came to my country via my tribe the bemba (a royal clan from the kingdom of Kongo) in 1328 after our long relationship with Portugal in the Kongo. It is important to understand that original Afrikan Christianity is completely different from the European Christianity brought through missionaries before, during and after colonisation of 90% of the continent. Afrikan Christianity was well accepted as one of many forms of spirituality amongst the many other older forms of Afrikan spirituality. Pre colonisation Christianity was brought in by Europeans and was written off the templates of Roman Catholic and Anglican Christianity to mention a few, which of course the Vatican still hold ultimate power in our modern-day. This was because Christianity was turned into one of the earliest forms of organised religion in Europe itself, and was used to wipe out all other non-Christian (pagan) faiths in Britain to be specific and vilified all their worshippers for centuries to come. This was and still is the current form of Christianity that was used in pre-colonisation, during colonisation and now in neo-colonialism. It vilifies all other indigenous African faiths and it is globally evident that geographical regions that have held on to there indigenous faiths have had a direct correlation with there cultural success and have then fostered successful independent globally recognised economies, (the great Chinese dynasty in China, the Nordic religions in Sweden and other European countries, the Celtic faiths of Scotland just to mention a few). So, should an African be born into or even be forced into being a Christian such as my own country Zambia "Christian nation" expects? To then embrace European Christianity and therefore undermine or even negate our own indigenous faiths? I and many Pan-African believe not, our education system was and still is from the west and does not even teach our true history yet alone at the very least, promote our indigenous faiths.
You speak truth, am from zambia too and i attest to this, it was imposed on my ancestors and therefore its not for me.
My great grandpa was not a Christian, i believe he is one of the few who refused it.
Christianity was imposed on colonial africa , Christianity in Ethiopia which is very close to middle east, might be voluntarily praticed and therefore more vigilant. First rule about Christianity in colonial africa is :Blessed are the poor, the weak shall inherit the earth. All new testament nonsense originating from Paul. gtfo here with your morality of the slave... the weakling.
What was it called before christianity?
Before Christianity it was called manifesting, strong believers of kingdom unity by using dance and gatherings, Giving to the forest as it gave back, eating none man made foods, belief in many Gods, such as Isis goddess of fertility, Ra the Sun God ECT, strong believers in themselves*spiritual people who believe in the Supreme Being called the Universe* erb doctors who healed but were called withes by Europeans* and after death it was reincarnation not a hell and heaven* That was African religion culture and traditions before Christianity* it terrified the Europeans* the African strength was strong* they needed to soften their mind with quotes such as if u get hit on one cheek turn so I can hit the other or u will get ur glory in Heaven* this way they could colonize them* take away their power and they will be easier to manipulate* and thats what happened, queen Revelonia saw this and tried to do away with missionaries bringing Christianity and still till this day they call her barbaric for her trying to save her people from Christianity.
P.S ur Christian Jesus was not black he was Arabian
"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible"
- Jomo Kenyatta
Are you saying,
Black people are stupid ?
Like MAC DRE said "LETS GET STUPID DOO DOO HYPHY DUMB..."
Then what did Kenyatta do after independence?
The same thing, plundered the Highlands and productive lands of Kenya for himself
Up to this moment Kenya is feeling the effect of this theft
Look for truth
Don't be biased just because you have a negative view of Christianity
Yes sir
Yep Tru and they did it every where they went
Thanks bro.
Great job.
I love you and your vedio it's so much 🤩🤩🤩
From Ethiopia 🇪🇹
What a beautiful name you have 😍😍
Please add some references / links on your videos to see where you got your information so that we can learn more . Thank you for the good work that you are doing.
I wonder if he started doing this cuz I would love it.
You should do more of these videos bro. It’s very informative. Most people think the only reason any black people believe is because of slavery. That’s simply not true.
Jezre3L Lol you should subscribe
Jezre3L That is why most black people believe in it. I knew Ethiopians were Christians but most of Africa was not Christians. In the 16th century the Portuguese made the Kingdom of Kongo convert. It was suppose to be to prevent them from slavery.
Jezre3L most slaves were not Christian before slavery tho. Christianity wasn’t even a thing in West africa
Jackie Montrose You dont know what in the world you're talking about. Lol
AnonBelieverOfGovLiez how do I not know what I talking about when it’s clearly documented that the spaces that came to America were from West africa and all spoke different language and had their own folk religion and spirituality. Don’t try and gaslight me to make me seem like I’m crazy
Binge watching all of your videos. I will not be left behind!💪🏾🏃🏾♂️
Great video man but I still think it would be a bit better if you could link your information in sources for us to do further digging from a good starting point. also just helps keep the haters away.
Christianity came to Africa (Ethiopia) and was established there many years before it reached Europe - see 'Acts of the Apostles' chapter 8.
About a quarter of the Bishops who formed the Council of Nicea in 325 AD which defined Christianity as it is today were AFRICANS.
First of all Christians originated for the Middle East that’s where all of this start, and just a fun fact Rome was transitioning for pegan to Christian from 305ad to 335ad and it was rough transition it wasn’t until 380ad every Roman was christan
miss martha ur ancestors were slaves for ther white man and u love a white god lol
@@Okay-pr9fppoint is the 1800s justification of "we bring Christianity to Africa" is a total sham, and prior to Ethiopia there also was the Coptic Christians of Egypt also in Africa.
FACT: The first mention of African converts to Christianity is in Acts Chapter 1:5,10 on the day of Pentecost. The book of Acts specifically mentions the Africans that were present of that day.
The Acts 1- 2 people were all ethnically Jewish but had travelled to Jerusalem for Jewish festival of Shavout which is also known as Pentecost.
So the Africans mentioned in Acts 1- 2 were nationally Africans but ethnically Jewish.
So the Ethiopian in Acts 2 is the first non Jewish convert to Christianity. Also before the Roman converts in Acts 10.
So even convert wise Africans embraced Christianity before Europeans.
Same with whole nations being Christian. Ethiopia became a Christian nation in 3rd century. Roman empire only in 4th century.
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CHRISTIANITY didn't exist back then
Yes, Congo converted voluntarily. And look what it got them. Nuff said.
yep their greatest empire collapsed after conversion the Portuguese knew what they were doing
Absolutely. Compare that to the Japanese who handed them their asses. Whose better ahead today?
Just like how Christianity was forced on everyone Egyptians, Greeks, Asians, and Celts but there were a lot of groups who willingly converted to Christianity.
There were some Native Americans who willingly converted to Christianity but it was also forced on the other tribes.
Let me put it this way, I got more issues than the New York Times with all of the Abrahamic traditions.
Ethiopia. They're Biblical people after all.
Amaka Olachi nne, one of the oldest bibles and churches can be found in Ethiopia.
Yes but it was an export to Ethiopia from the Levant
Through conversion not conquest.
Negus 97 they dont wanna hear that thought. As long as they feel that they have some connection to them the history and origin dont matter.
+MAMA AFRICA Yes I know, I did research on that. I wish to see them! 😀
Brother, everytime you drop that drum beat, I am dancing to my feet, idk about the rest of y'all, I feel at home when that comes on...
The sound of those drums sends an indescribable energy through my whole body!!
Next talk about Leopold and the Belgian kongo.
Waffle waffle waffle
I came to this video before I got the notification. Anyone else?
Isaac Diakité same lol.
I did
Highly useful. I've spent a lot of time with my students discussing how Islam entered the West African Empires but we haven't talked much about Christianity.
And ironically, it was Islam that did the colonizing and killing.
You should as Jesus Christ is the way, truth and the life.
Arab is not a race like Hispanic a nationality.
*When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.*
Desmond Tutu
Quran For U, Jomo Kenyatta is the originator of this quote
Hahaha
@Helen Hovhannisyan Armenians wee killed because the ottomon's no longer trusted you not because you were christian the young turks did not like islam themselves.
Look at the liers, who think muslims attacked them
Both Christianity and Islam are fake.
Love your work and research - please keep up the good work.
I appreciate this video and the research you do
He said WHEN Europeans embraced Christianity, when means they did not start it. They later embraced it.
This was an interesting video and it cleared up some of my misconceptions on Christianity in Africa. You should do videos on the history of Islam and jewdism as well and again thank you for clearing up my misconceptions also I suggest doing a video on the African people’s outside of Africa like the Siddi people in India
As a black atheist, I certainly understand the need of these ancient religions over ancient peoples before an understanding of science. Most people needed some way to try and understand the world they lived in and without the modern day science through geology, biology, chemistry, astronomy, genetics, and modern medicine, this was a scary world to live in. So we filled it with several deities in an attempt to understand it. We are beginning to move out of these ancient religions of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religions into a true age of enlightenment through science and we will be better for it as we truly embrace our shared humanity as the surviving hominid species from the continent of Africa where all races came according to science.
Sgtbigmike Well as a Black Christian, i’ll thank-you for your polite and intelligent comment. However with that being said I wouldn’t agree with you entirely. I mean the fathers of modern day Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy and Practically all Modern day Sciences and Scientific theories were Christians. Bacon , Galleleio , Newton , Darwin who popularized the theory of evolution, and the man that created the big bang theory was a Catholic Priest. I feel like Science explains how our world works, however as many of these Scientists explained and realized, Religion details how to work in this world....
The father of biology Aristotle, was not a Christian. The father of evolution was not a Christian. Albert Einstein was only born Jewish but himself had a shaky opinion of his own faith. The problem with many religions was that they were indoctrinated on the masses and therefore, you were born with little choice in the matter. Also, in many cases, the penalty for denial of faith was harsh to include incarceration or even burning alive at the stake. Galileo himself was convicted for his findings in science that went against the scripture and was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. It's under these pretenses that it's very difficult to judge scientists of the past off of their regions of the past. It's only been in the 20th and now 21st centuries that you will continue to see an increase in scientists who of course, are completely willing to announce their findings in lack of scientific evidence to back both Biblical and Quran scriptures. Modern day science is evidence based, it can be changed based on the evidence at hand. Religion is not evidenced based, it does not change regardless of what the evidence presents, it works out no details unless by mere coincidence and without evidence it would not explain them.
Sgtbigmike Darwin the father of Evolution was a Christian theist.... Furthermore I never said *Every* famous scientists was a Christian, I was trying to say most of the founding fathers of modern day Science, I.e the Scientific revolution were Christian. Which would therefore not include Aristotle since he was pre-Scientific revolution. And yes it’s absolutely horrible what the church in the history has done to those who’ve challenged their interpretations, however that doesn’t make the theological documents itself wrong, nor the scientists relationship with Jesus Christ either. Science will always change because it’s evidence based, and because the evidence of how the natural world operates will change of course. However Religion is not a description of how the Natural world works, it’s how we operate in this world, It’s how we live our lives, treat others, it’s what is greater than us, in my humble opinion of course. At the end of the day I respect your beliefs, and I’m glad to see another educated brother with knowledge about the history of Science as we definitely could use some more brothers like you lool . Peace ✌🏿
Samuel Appiah
There were people who came up with the evolution hypothesis prior Darwin. For example, Al-Jahiz, a Black Arab scholar in the 8th century who elucidated on the concept of food chains and basic evolution.
Samuel Appiah You are on everyone’s comment threads with the same cult member brand of logic. Prove your god exists and stop spewing what a bunch of European liars said and wrote. Are you a Black man for real? I can’t tell..💯
Well done ! This is a subject that interests me, many of the early church fathers were born in Africa like Saint Augustine he was born in Algeria and is one of the most important figures in Christianity, the Nubian Church was an important part of early Christianity and even took part in the crusades, anyway love your page
FANTASTIC VIDEO! But, I see the devils are out in the comments section to contradict the video with their lies and nonsense. Typical and expected. I hope you do more of these African Christian videos! New subscriber!
I really appreciate this. I've gotten into so many arguments over this topic. As an African American who happens to be a Christian, the "woke" community constantly tells me that I'm a traitor and a sellout for partaking in the "White man's religion." I always mention what you just explained so well in this video, but to no avail. Maybe next time I'll share this link. Thanks.
Cedric Peterson -Before you refer a derogatory term to Anton Takashima learn to spell. Two words you are are not spelled your.
They have such a deep hate for anything that reminds them of white people that they blindly believe that Christianity belongs to white people. Keep believing in Christianity if you want.
Anton Takashima ..u r you just need some for justification to support your argument Christianity is not a native tongue or religion or spirituality he's talking about everything after ad what about civilization religion spirituality and BC and BCE there wasn't no Christianity in BC or BCE my brother
anton ur black... U pray to a white god lol.. I think christainity was great at making africans the perfect slave back in the day
Well a majority of sub Saharan Africans came into contact with Christianity through Europeans. The exception being East Africans/Ethiopians.
The West Africans were originally the North Africans, but escaped to the west when the muslim/arab invasion happen. Also Christianity survived for 100 years before the colonisation of the Europeans. When the Portuguese first came, they built hospitals, schools etc. So they were also traces of Christianity in the west before slavery.
@@peripheralhandshakerwhat are you yapping about? West Africans are not originally North Africans.many of them are just southern and East Africans that immigrated west Africa. they are not originally North Africans.
@jacquelinewebster9171 It true, the inly group beside sub saharan un Kemet was the amazaih (bad spelling) but blacks use to occupy the North.
Egypt was a Christian nation until the Islamic conquest which islamised the whole of North Africa.
MAMA AFRICA you mean the second wave of Persian's.
And before the Roman empore occupied Egypt helping in the spread of Christianity they held their own indigenous African beliefs too. That's the way of the world
The Copts are still there.
They did right to worship one true God and follow real teachings of Jesus PBUH instead of blapsemy against God by believing in trinity.
@@basharatali927 nahhhhh.
Christianity was never brought to Africa, maybe only to some parts of Africa. I don't understand why people are acting like west Africa (which is where the translantic-slave trade was taking place mostly) is the representation for the whole continent. Christianity existed in Ethiopia and north Africa way before it spread to Europe and other parts of Africa.
This was great. Thanks for this and for all that you do.
Thank you for this video. I am a student studying Christianity in Africa. This video was very helpful and educational. Several points I did not know. Thanks again.
So, it started In Africa??? 🤨
Hometeam university that who u are. Big up Professor Af-rui-ka.
The Kingdom of Ethiopia was the first to make Christianity the official religion.
I can listen to him for hours
His voice is so soothing.
Peace from a Cameroonian in Cape Town
Wonderful video.. But did you put up another video after this one that has been taken down?
They still being the victim and posting memes mocking Jesus and blaming the white man saying he brought Christianity to them. SMH
The devil knocked on the door and Africa let him come in!
Correct and his name was Christianity
Charles/Marilyn Billington, exactly that what happened, so the entry point must be the recovery point,kongo Kingdom holds such key. Carefully read below:Please READ: Exodus 12:40. Also do your own research, King John I or Nzinga NKUWU from the Kongo Kingdom received baptism in 1491, the official entry of Christianity into Africa, because the brand of Christianity which entered Ethiopia and Egypt had not spread throughout the continent as such had no spiritual impact on us as Africans. After King Nzinga Nkuwu's baptism, which meant that Africa had lost its spiritual powers, the start of paying back for our forefathers sins in ancient Egypt. In 1706, Kimpa Vita preached and prophesied the return to our ancestral spirituality, is burnt alive together with her child and husband by Catholic priests, before getting into the fire, she promised the return of her son to reveal to Africans and blacks in general, the lies of Christianity. In 1921, Mfumu Kimbangu Mvuluzi denounced Christianity and started preaching our African ancestral religion,during the 3 months performed greater miracles never seen or heard by any prophet on this planet, from Jesus to Muhammad, three months later was arrested and spent 30 years in prison; his crime was he had misinterpreted the Bible. To conclude: 1491-1706, we have 215, which is half of 430 yrs(this means Africa should have been free along time ago, but our brothers participated in burning Kimpa Vita , when she begged them not to do so), From 1491-1921, we have 430 years, the total of years the time when the Israelites stayed and were mistreated by our Egyptian ancestors. So, Mfumu Kimbangu Mvuluzi is the saviour of Africa and of the black race, it is time to recognise him and leave all those oppressive and imported Religions, thus to please God and our ancestors. Any questions, please ask. INGETA, Hotep
@@lilraisin no Christianity is not evil
@bobbi brown shut up and stop invading our spaces.
And it was called Islam
Once again thank you for being your self and just giving the facts and not your personal opinions.This is what makes your post so interesting.
That was a beautiful summary & testimony brother 🙋🏽♂️ May the Most High who is called Elohim bless you in His Son Immanuel’s name 🙏🏾
Didn't mention how the apostle Mathew (with Andrew sometime) evangelize in ethiopia
Powerful! Serious and solid knowledge! Better for this information!
This was a good video man thank you brotha.
This is very informative.... Where can i go to get further information on this? Any books to recommend?
Ethiopia has some of the oldest Christian communities, churches and villages in the world. Arguably some of them dating back less than a century after Christs death.
In kerala india a church was made in 52 ad
Christianity, islam and Judaism have nothing to do with black ppl. Our ppl were spiritual ppl who channelled the god within and praised their ancestors
What is your intro music? I love it.
wow, Im about to study deeper on this topic! Thank you for sharing!
I really appriciate your videos. Great and educational content! Sometimes though i feel you mix historical facts: When you say Ethiopia do you mean what was then known as the Aksumite Empire? That means what in our modern day is known as Eritrea, Djibouti and Ethiopia. Remember Ethiopia under Menelik II turned even more to a settler state. Pretty much up to now (Oromo, Ogaden...etc). Any reflection on that?
great observation, I'm sure we can research the answer by simply finding out if it was called Ethiopia in 33A.D.
yes if we start to see the region as one whole. we can not simply ignore the fact that they share a common history
@@wcp4jc Ethiopia back then essentially ment any land in africa that wasn't Egypt
I'd like to hear your thoughts, research and perspective on the esoteric aspects of Christianity (Gnosticism), Islam (Sufism) and Judaism (Kabbalism).
So the nutters
sufism preaches a lot of things that are not part of Islam. some sufis dance around graves and some worship saints. this is all wrong and against Islam.
love your voice. It makes me want to watch more of your videos.
Excellent video and a wealth of information.
Finally! You've save the best for last, there's still more to this subject on christianity's long standing relationship with Africa.
PEACE.
Thank for this video brother. I am sure you have included this in other content but Africa and mostly Kush is prominently mentioned in the Old Testament starting in Genesis. Bible scholars mention that the people of Kush spread all across Africa into and throughout Asia. This is perhaps why you find dark-skinned people with African Features in Ancient China, Japan, Cambodia, Laos, The Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. I am sure you know that Moses wife was an Ethiopian woman and there were Ethiopians that were among the original Hebrew People. Jewish believers came from the Middle East and Africa to Jerusalem for the Passover each year. This is why we have reason to believe that African were among the 150 gathered in the Upper Room in Acts 2.
I dont agree with the "idea" where they said.. black ppl only originate in africa and if tgey are found in other area or continents
They must've been brought as slaves or migrated .. i feel as tho black-dark skinned ppl are originated where they are in asia/middle east/natives in australia america
@@rediettadesse2828 I agree with you not all black skinned people throughout the world were “slaves.” Indeed many of them did indeed migrate. Some were indigenous. Thank you for mentioning the Aboriginal people of Australia.
Cristianity came to the west.When the Hebrews left jerusalemThrough religious persecution.
What???!!
HomeTeam History u guys are doing great work I love you guys
this was really interesting, it'd be dope if you dropped sources in the description though because I can't take anything as it is on RUclips without proof. I can't tell if anything is well researched because I don't know much about Christianity or the African diaspora.
It was really good. And you have to know one of the worlds ancient religious(Christianity ) icons are in Africa in Ethiopia and Egypt before many years earlier than the Europeans.
Ethiopiar mentioned more than 40 times in the bible
Not only ethiopians(blacks) knew the bible before europeans .. Even the bible knew ethiopia before n after jesus😄😄😊
The second oldest church IN THE WORLD
Also Eritrea 🇪🇷 but I have huge respects for those nations too ❤️❤️❤️ and we do have the church icons looking like us, ☦️
I am so proud to be Congolese.
Well made videos! We never learn this stuff in schools...
Boy you jus got yoself a subscriber ✊🏽
My question is though: If the first Europeans arrived in Africa for the first time in 1471; how did they have a bible that included stories of Christ who was born in Africa, centuries before their arrival in Africa?
He was born in the Levant not Africa which technichly means jesus was asian
@Jan Pearson the Levant is in the middle east
@Jan Pearson no he was not armenian and you no evidence to prove that however he was a jew
Ethiopians were Christians 500 years before the Vatican ever existed. Ethiopians
Have the oldest Bible in the world containing all 81 books!
The Book of Creation Genesis in the Old Testament only mentions African countries
Using their ancient or modern names, eg Abssynia/Ethiopia being the first country mentioned in the Bible...what Iam saying is the Old Testament is an African book
Stolen by Rome!
Your first part is true. Ethiopians were indeed among the first christian kingdom (although to be exact the first christian kingdom was Armenia) but your ending make no sense. Rome stole the book of Old testament? You mean they invaded Ethiopia, took all the copies of the old testament, burned them all and returned back to Rome to make a new version?
Christianity was taught to ethiopians by middle easterners, when ethiopia(aksum) became christian, the head of the church was a Syrian.
JP B where is Armenia mentioned in the Bible? There is zero evidence that Christianity was adopted there first. Many historians have long proven this
Amaanreer stop this nonsense to Arab ever taught an Ethiopian Christianity.
Hi 👋🏽 Can I get references to everything you said in this video besides the scriptures?
Thanks for breaking down this knowledge. Very insightful
Been there since Ancient Ethiopia
I watched the whole video but you lost me once you started quoting the Bible like that's actual history. C'mon Son.
Mathew is a book that is dated to the first century. When you quote it, your quoting people from the time period. All he was showing is that there was trade and relations with Africans dated to the time period. YOu dont have to believe Jesus or the bible is the word of God to see that point.
@@ScholarVisual Didn't know the Bible or Mathew had dates in it.
Nat Turner76
The book of Matthew doesn’t have dates in it. We know when it was written, that’s what “it was dated” means.
@@southbend76
No ancient books have dates in them. There is a method historians use called "Textual Criticism" that gives them a rough estimate of when a texts was written. They do this with ALL ancient texts. Not just the bible.
Christianity is fake.
Where did the name come from ? Can you pin point that please?
The first church in Sub Saharan Africa is in Eritrea actually, the monastery is still there and its called Mariam Debre Sina
Ertrea was known as ancient ethiopia and yes we are tge oldest christians in the world accepting in 330 AD
The Garden of Eden is where Africa was first mentioned. Genisis 2:10i14 KJV And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. Ethiopia was a part of the Garden of Eden.
😆garden of aden was spotted you were cannibalist from africa
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From my study, Christianity spread to west Africa through the trade and migration of Berber tribes first across North Africa to subsaharan Africa. This video was really disappointing scholarship. The bible is not a reliable reference for a historical study.
uncolonizedmind He never used the Bible to discuss Afro-Christian history, he simply used the Bible to prove the *presence* of Africans in the Bible....
why is the bible not reliable?
uncolonizedmind Really bc Historical scholars, would disagree with you.
He didn't use the Bible. The fact that you say he did is evidence of two things. 1. You obviously haven't read the Bible.
2. You haven't done any proper study on the history.
Because if you read the Bible you would know. And if you had studied the historical accounts outside the Bible you would know.
Analytical Process Yeah I agree, I laugh whenever people say the Bible isn’t Historically accurate, or you can’t use the Bible as a history book, like I guess the Kingdoms Israel, Judah, the Babylonian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Jewish/Hebrew peoples, etc are all fake or not real Bc the Bible mentions them?
He never explains in any detail how Christianity came to be know or spread in Africa. He talks about an Ethiopian being converted then says a Nubian was the first know then points to 3 Christian kingdoms. He brings up the trade routes but doesn't acknowledge that's white people bringing their religion with them. The Roman empire was the first country to declare Christianity as its religion (380 AD) and it owned everything that touched the Mediterranean Sea. Including Africa. The religion came to Africa via the Roman empire. Who were the original colonizers..
You know exactly what you be doing with the music because you be having me shook
My brother you are very selective with your historical review on Christianity in Africa.
First off Jesus was not a Christian so the fact that he was taken to Egypt as a child has no meaning in relation to Christianity. The fact that he met a man Simon has nothing to do with Christianity because there was no such movement as Christianity at that time. Simon was more that likely a Jew from Cyrene which was located in northern Africa in eastern Libya. It was at the time a Greek city in the province of Cyrenaica, which had a Jewish community where 100,000 Judean Jews had been forced to settle during the reign of Ptolemy Soter (323-285 BC).
Also, your presentation gives the impression that Christianity naturally spread through Africa just like it did elsewhere. But this is not a fact. Christianity was mostly spread by colonization. The Kongo king you mentioned was influenced by trading possibilities with Portugal and that influenced him becoming a Catholic convert. The Portuguese were interested in exploiting Africa and as history shows the outcome was indeed exploitation that lasted for centuries.
Why did you faile to mention the history of missionaries in Africa?
"At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were practising Christians, apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire (modern Congo Brazzaville and western DR Congo)."
"In the 1800's, Catholic missionary expeditions were launched with new vigour to the West, in Senegal and Gabon. Protestant missionaries took up work in Sierra Leone in 1804. The missionaries represented a big spectrum of denominations or churches: Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, many of them in competition and conflict with each other" (BBC 19th Century White Missionaries).
Furthermore, check the history of the Society for Missions to Africa and the East (as the society was first called) was founded on 12 April 1799.
If we tell the history we should tell all of it so that we can really be freed from misconception. Replacing one misconception with another is not the way to go.
Thank you
Yes I agree with you. Simon of Cyrene was most likely Greek as Cyrene was a Greek city even though it was in Present day Libya. Yes Jesus did live in Egypt, yet that doesn’t mean that Christianity was spread as there was no Christianity at the time. What I can say however is that people in Ethiopia could have been Jews because after the Queen of Sheba returned to her kingdom after visiting Solomon, she might have converted after seeing the wealth and wisdom God had given to Solomon. Christianity did spread to north Eastern Africa during the time of Jesus and the apostles, but inner Africa was untouched by this. And last but not the least I don’t know why people say that Christianity is a White man’s religion as Jesus wasn’t white. I am not claiming that he was black either, but he would have looked like however Israelites looked like. After all the Israelites couldn’t marry foreign people as God had instructed so there is no way that Jesus had European blood in him.
Bruh thank you! I literally took an African Studies course and they only talked about Ethiopia. No one even talked about the Congo.
Congo was Ethiopian current Ethiopia was Abyssinian.
@@manakamuhammad6936 congo was ethiopia ?
WHAT THE FAUQE ? WHO TOLD YOU THAT ?
ethiopia used both names interchangeably with abysinnia for centuries
(1 million proves)
hi admin forgive me if i'm out of context but if you have any knowledge of what i'm about to ask could you please elaborate on the first white pharaoh "Constantine" relation to Christianity. Thank you
Thank you brother, interesting stuff.
Remember Jesus was black. The European only know jeus in the 4 cenetry
I think it’s interesting that people will use the Bible as proof. If we are debating whether Christianity is original to Africa, it would be more helpful to refer to references that don’t have to do with the Bible.
Great video!
Brutha, would you please provide a book for your information. Bless
The Levant is between Asia and Africa, not Europe and Africa.
Doesn't matter. It ain't Africa.
Correct
TRUTHTEACHER2007 So we should only embrace things from Africa? In that case , why are we using the computer to discuss right now......
No. That would be foolish. But to assume that my own people had no spirituality, no philosophy, no morality and we needed outsiders to teach us these things? NO! The thing about our traditions is we had no concept of exclusivity. We had no problem with learning from other traditions and incorporating things we found useful on our own terms. We didn't need to be saved and we were never immoral and ignorant and it's the latter assumptions that I disagree with.
Having said all that, I think it's obvious that there is no reason why Africans couldn't borrow new technologies and adapt them just as every other society has done.
TRUTHTEACHER2007 exactly.
I can see that you do your research but how can you look at the Congo and say and a North African empire and say how Christianity entered the WHOLE continent of Africa? Are you implying that all of west Africa is the Congo?
Nice to hear a history that is not so Eurocentric. Do you do speaking tours?
are there any books you can recommend on this
You should do a video like this for Islam. It would be interesting to know if Islam was brought to Africa by more than simply Arab conquest.
I think we already know the answer to that question
Review Walter William's The Historical Origins of Islam and Christianity. You tube. As a man you should not be so gullible to another man. Anyone can create a video and say whatever. This video will perpetrate your ignorance.
Only north africa , subsahara accept islam voulntry through trades and scholars visits
@@gamalsaad1545 yes exactly
Hotspurs247 only North Africa was in a conquest and those people were already Arabs how ever west Africa became Muslim they trade same with east Africa which converted while the prophet was still alive due to the fact that when Muslims were percecuted they went to absynia and Islam spread into Somalia and the Swahili coast and as far as Mozambique
Christianity in africa first started in the north east.
anonymous No one denied that...........
Samuel Appiah uh.... I didn't say they did......... dumbass
That is correct. Christianity began in Northern Africa. Kemet is in Northern Africa. There is no such place as the middle east. The first Christian church is the Hagia Sophia. The teachers were African Kemetics. The Church was eventually moved to Rome. Christianity became the official state religion of the Greco roman world by an ecumenical Council called the council of Chalcedom 451.
You must go to the Nile Valley for the source.
The Historical Origin of Christianity, Walter Williams
The Africa n Origins of the Three Major World Religions, Dr. Ben Josef
The Black Man and the Nile, Dr
Ben
Christianity Before the Christ, John G. Jackson
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Stolen Legacy,
The Sixteen Crucified Saviors, Kelsey Graves
Egypt the Light of the World, Gerald Massey
The Instructions of the Negroes in the United States, 1849, Charles Jones
David Walker's Appeal 1820, David Walker
This was mind blowing and revelational!
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