Christianity was present in Africa long before the imposition of colonial rule; however, it remained only one of several religious traditions, and despite centuries of sustained contact with Christian societies, its influence across the continent was relatively limited.
Isaac Samuel is among the senior faculty at our homeschool. Only 2 students - one is 13, the other almost 80. Lifelong learning in action, pre-colonial West Africa a current multi-year focus. Thank you, Isaac Samuel.
Your access to early Arab accounts is especially appreciated. Early colonial accounts in Portuguese & French we can handle but Arabic was a shuttered window until we found Prof. Samuel!
It's interesting to observe that the Christianity in Nubia has flourished by the same political motivation that Mohammed has started a monotheistic religion in Arabic Peninsula and then founded the Islan Religion and, on the other side of Red Sea, Abyssinian Empire has converted to Christianity too: the convention of Roman Empire in Christianity has show that this new spiritual paradigm has arrived and empowered the civilizations. The tragic of all this millennial history is that Ethiopia has became a powerful empire, but Nubians has declined and submitted to a vassall relationship with Meca. The Tragedy of Kongo is just a revival of this assimetric relationship between the colonizer's and the colonizer's cristianities. Thanks for the instigator text
Isaac Samuel is among the senior faculty at our homeschool. Only 2 students - one is 13, the other almost 80. Lifelong learning in action, pre-colonial West Africa a current multi-year focus. Thank you, Isaac Samuel.
Grateful!
Your access to early Arab accounts is especially appreciated. Early colonial accounts in Portuguese & French we can handle but Arabic was a shuttered window until we found Prof. Samuel!
https://substack.com/home/post/p-184938874
It's interesting to observe that the Christianity in Nubia has flourished by the same political motivation that Mohammed has started a monotheistic religion in Arabic Peninsula and then founded the Islan Religion and, on the other side of Red Sea, Abyssinian Empire has converted to Christianity too: the convention of Roman Empire in Christianity has show that this new spiritual paradigm has arrived and empowered the civilizations. The tragic of all this millennial history is that Ethiopia has became a powerful empire, but Nubians has declined and submitted to a vassall relationship with Meca. The Tragedy of Kongo is just a revival of this assimetric relationship between the colonizer's and the colonizer's cristianities. Thanks for the instigator text