BLOG #11

             
     Traditional African religion after viewing the video "Traditional African Religions", I am convinced that the Europeans were the blueprint of how Africans would worship. The Europeans had their own way of belief of how they worshiped' so upon arriving to Africa their way of worshiping was forced upon the Africans as another form of control. The way that the Africans worshipped came from their ancestors became somewhat null and void in the eyes of the Europeans.  The environment and nature are infused in every aspect of traditional African religions and culture. This is largely because cosmology and beliefs are intricately intertwined with the natural phenomena and environment. All aspects of weather, thunder, lightning, rain, day, moon, sun, stars, and so on may become amenable to control through the cosmology of African people. Natural phenomena are responsible for providing people with their daily needs.The strong arming and intimidation of the Africans by the Europeans to change they way they would worship, was convincing enough to allow the Africans to go along with the change in the open but this was not a strong enough hold that would remove their learned way of worshipping. In other words it made the Africans hide their rituals that they were comfortable with, this proved also that they were still in some control of their fate.
    In Africa the sport of choice if Futbol a sport that has proven to be most important in their country,
one that all many to become unified among all in Africa. The players of the game futbol proved to be quite the obedient to rituals before games to show that were traditional practices. The organization of religion in Africa today has provided a path as to how they believe they will be blessed. The religions Islam and Christianity are the top religions among Africans today.  The difference in the religions and why some choose one over the other would prove to be irrelevant, because sole purpose for all is to reach the promise land. Even though there may some tension between those that choose Islam and those that choose Christianity, it still remain that traditional still plays a major part.