Learn If African Culture Is Evil Today!
4th December 2023
In this article, we are going to answer the question above such as what do people mean when they ask, “Is African Culture Evil?” how do we know if it’s evil or good, why it is important for us to know if African Culture is evil or not and who says so, and finally, what you think about this, personally. Because we young Africans don’t fully understand our African beliefs, worldviews, and culture, we might think and act otherwise. Read this article for more information about the African culture.
Is African Culture Evil?
This question is not baseless or ridiculous as I first thought. If you listen to how African Christians and Muslims think, revealed in how they talk and act, it seems everything African is only evil and must be shunned as evil. The only impression we get is that African culture, which simply means the African ways of life, is all evil and therefore is not good to use it.
If that impression is based on a reality, a belief system, a foreign system, then we have to look at it properly. Is it true that all African people think, say, and do are evil? Is there nothing good in the African thought, saying, and deeds? In other words, was Satan the only God of Africa? Did God, the heavenly King, the God of the Bible and Quran, not revealed Himself to Africans through His own ways and means?
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Those are questions instead. They don’t answer the question: is African Culture Evil? But I hope you are getting to understand the question better now than when you first started reading. This is because language itself is culture. The more we know, the more we think and speak in a language, the more we behave ourselves into those ideologies that come with that language.
In this case, the more we use English, the more we become English. The more we use Arabic, the more we become Arab and so on. These are just examples. This is how we begin to misunderstand our very own cultures, our ways of life, the way our ancestors thought, spoke, and acted. This was the way they lived their lives in this hostile world.
However, when I don’t understand something, does it mean what I don’t know or understand is bad or evil? If at all I just don’t understand it because of my lack of knowledge of it, then I am the issue, not what I don’t know or understand. For example, because we young Africans study in either English or Arabic these modern days, we don’t know that the science we are studying was known to our ancestors in their language. I mean, things like the classification of birds, animals, plants, and much more. This means science is not a new concept. Science is not English. Science, which means knowledge, is not Arabic, Swahili, or French.
How Do We Know African Culture Is Evil?
We seem to suggest that the African culture is evil as explained above, but is it true? It’s true that every human culture is not perfect, just as humans themselves are not perfect, but that doesn’t mean only African culture suffers from human weakness and evil. As you might already know, a culture is a big word. It simply means the way people live.
Our cultures are the results of experience, good and bad. They have been changing. They are changing, and they will continue to change until the world comes to an end when the sun exhausts its own energy maybe billions of years away from now. For this reason, the African culture is not the same today as it was in 1990s.
However, this means our culture should evolve and improve, but that doesn’t mean it is evil. There is something evil in it just as there is something good. There is something wicked in it just as there is something holy in it as well. We should be able to know which parts are good and which parts are evil. Yet, no matter how much we know, life is evil, neutral, and good.
If you look at neutrons, electrons and photons, you will understand that the very basic building blocks of life are positive, negative and neutral. That means something, isn’t it? That alone answers the question. It means even our African culture cannot be described as either evil or good because it’s dynamic. There seems to be a spectrum for everything in this life. Even people are uniquely different even if they are identical twins.
Is It Important To Know If African Culture Evil?
I think it is important for us to understand our African culture from our own perspective, because only then will we understand it as it is. Think about number six (6). Depending on where you stand, you might think it is number nine (9). If this illustration serves the purpose, then you don’t have to ask a foreigner to define your culture for you.
This is because you must know better about your culture. A culture as mentioned earlier includes everything else: religion, moral, social, and much more. Our people in Africa used to live fully, for each other. They never mind about time because a time spent with a loved one or friend is not a time wasted. Today, we rush and we don’t have enough time even without ourselves when we need to.
In Africa, especially in my Nuer and Dinka context, life has been defined and classified. There is no confusion about it. Even the abstract is part of the whole—the living dead are still around—but we can’t see them. Life is a whole think, not fragmented. This means something.
For example, men go with boys and women go with girls. That’s natural. There are things men like talking about and we don’t have to ignore this. Ignoring this is pure ignorance in my culture’s eyes. But is it true in a European view? Is it true in the Mideast or Asia? Do people there see the difference between men and women, boys and girls as I see it?
It’s important if we understand our cultures. We can then try to eliminate things that are not helpful but maintain the things that are beneficial to the societies. In this way, we can even reject foreign cultural elements that don’t help us while we incorporate elements that are good for us. However, as mentioned earlier, we better live in peace in a conflicting world or else.
What Do You Think About This Article?
What do you now think about this topic after reading my views above? Do you agree with me? Why do you agree or disagree with me? Did you know anything about this topic before? Have you ever feel the same way as I do that we are misunderstanding culture? What do you think we can do to correct things?
I am asking you so that we can join forces in this fight. It’s not a one man’s war. It’s not a one man’s business. We both need to think about it because it’s already affecting us directly and indirectly. People wish they were born American instead of Sudanese, Ugandan, Kenyan, or South African. This is because they think everything about their Africa-ness is all evil. Are they always right?
I am here to tell you that you can’t change your very own nature let alone that of the other African people. You can only discover and then improve your true self, if at all you want to live in peace with yourself and with others in your world. You can then discover and improve on your life career. I hope I am inspiring you to be a better version of you.
Conclusion
In summary, we have said a lot about whether an African culture is all evil or not, how we know if an African culture is good or evil, why we need to know and study our African cultures, and finally, what you think about this topic, personally. At this juncture, allow me to hear from you finally. What do you think about this article? I need your honest feedback. I am sure my 1.6k readers (and counting) will also love to hear from you. This will help me write better articles in the future.
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Further Readings
- Black Christians, don’t demonize African spirituality—religionews.com
- Culture of Africa—wikipedia.org
- The strange power of the evil eye—BBC.co.uk
- What each culture and country believe about the evil eye—svanadesign.com
