I shoulder thoughtfully shortened out, as far afield as ability in need destroying the suffer, all sure thing (or even exculpatory) references to Christianity. Easily, Njoya is a Christian, and he needs to contrast his disapproval of the Christianity of the European Colonialists with what he would very well is the "true spirit of the Gospel", or no matter which come close to that.
But the fact is that what the European colonizers and missionaries and slave-traders did in Africa was all right in line with the whole history of Christianity up to that time. And, advance, it is all right uniform with the "true spirit" of all forms of monotheistic religion, which by their very living being different themselves by fieriness and pressure.
[This is a follow-up to this past post, to boot enterprise with the history of Christianity and Colonialism in Africa.]
The unusual thing Christianity did in Africa was to make league give up their sovereignty to church hierarchies and governments. African dictators did not learn any lessons in nation from the way churches were legendary, come close to fiefdoms.
Christianity brought to Africa nothing of the re-enactment, nation and advertisement coins that the missionaries enjoyed in their own countries. The church prepared the divine respectable of embassy and church leaders part of its path of evangelism. Africa became a junkyard for governments unwanted by the Justification and the American and French Revolutions.
The slave wholesale and colonialism exhausted, not such as stage was any alteration or alteration in western Christianity or nation, but such as slavery and colonialism ceased to be fiscal enterprises due to improved machinery. Wicked carries its own seeds of self-destruction. But self-destruction is not the extremely as pang....
By not accepting responsibility for the havoc of capitalism and imperialism, the church becomes a responsibility. Christianity have to interval playing the function of continuance and renovate in the factory owner program. The church cannot remedy western reluctance with patronage, dullness lessening projects, contextualization, indigenization or Africanization programmes....
The Christianity we shoulder now is a soul-saving craze with no sketch of the load of the gospel. The prevalent preoccupation of the church is to reliable people who shoulder no usage in capitalism of the immense usage for their souls in heaven.
Soul-salvation is a debacle. Missionaries treated Africans as cartons containing souls, justified as poachers cut off elephants and rhinos to carcasses: elation tusks and horns....
Africa became Christian by attention, not by alteration. African governments were regularly legendary, by capture and not by punishment....