Dedegist

 Introduction It is widely believed that a teeming population of Africans are Christians. This is because the missionaries converted many Africans to Christianity during the colonial era coupled with the ugly incidence of Slave trade which accompanied it. In this article I only wish to question a question which is the possibility of one accepting a faith under duress and yet keeping to it. Advent of Christianity in Africa. It is a well known fact that after the departmentalisation and disection of Africa in the Berlin Conference in 1885 which can also be called the scramble for Africa, different countries went into Africa for their selfish interests. Topmost of all interests was the financial and material gain from Africa. Though prior to this period, Africa was utilised during the first and second world wars.  Gaining entrance to Africa was not a baby task as there was a need for not just political colonization but a need for mental colonization. This mental colonization made...

 EXTRACT: Since the advent of Christianity in Igbo land, a host of names have been used as either a direct translation or transliteration of what the indigenes were presented with as God. Cheching these names, topmost among them is Chineke but following the Igbo cosmology one will come to believe that neither Chineke nor Chukwu comes close to the the Christian concept of God hence an urgent need for a new search for a name for the Christian God in Igbo language. Follow us as we go through this presenting reasons for our position. CHINEKE IN IGBO SPIRITUALISM: The Igbo word Chineke came to be as a combination of two divine forces in Igbo spiritual world. These entities are CHI and EKE. In Igbo cosmology, CHI is the life force and the reincarnating force of a human being. Each person in Igbo land has his own personal CHI. The Chi is the person who reincarnated in a human being. The Igbos believe that each has reincarnated several times and in each of the reincarnation pays a karmic d...