In this episode Zeinab Badawi examines religion in Africa. First the enduring presence of Africa’s indigenous religions, to which millions of people on the continent still adhere.
She travels to Zimbabwe to find out more about a remote community that follows traditional African religion. In Senegal she meets a Muslim man who, like so many others in the continent, blends Islamic beliefs with his ancestral ones and enjoys talking to trees!
She also charts the impact of Judaism and early Christianity in Africa and how Africans in particular made significant contributions to Christian thinking and practice through influential figures such as St Augustine who lived in what is today Algeria.
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great history
No idea
thank you
The Pharaonic religion of ancient Egyptians is overlooked, yet the Kemetic faith sustained the Africans of the Nile Valley for thousands of years longer than Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. Egypt and most of the rest of Africa collapsed under the weight of these invader religions that brought exploitation and poverty to the black masses. The depictions of saints and icons with dead-white skin help instill inferiority among the beautiful darker-complected people.
Thanks for giving me a good insight about the Nubians. It proves religion is a belief that makes up a precession of history, just as we’re the impending part of the history of our planet earth.
Religion in Africa? Come on!!! And for that, bye!
Why does Christianity get shitted on ALL THE TIME ? 🤦
CHRISTIANITY PRE-DATES ALL JESUS CHRIST ALWAYS EXISTED
I truly pray my ppl can come back to ancestors, spiritual we will find peace.
Sanatan dharm is eternal and everywhere. Each thing was relatable to me as a Hindu
I get so sick of you all trying to make the edomites Israelites. Teach the truth.
The guy on the right to the Rasta man, ask him what he learnt.
It's spiritually before religion.. BBC lost me at "Africa's indigenous religions". BBC needs to be banned from all corners of Africa
AFRICA, I LOVE YOU! ❤💚 🖤
Greatest king mR Nyathi
I can't believe that a State Owned media outlet in the West would spend taxpayer dollars to disparage St. Augustine that way. The documentary makers should be ashamed, they totally misrepresent St. Augustine's youth. He was a sinner but by his own admission, and by the grace of god, through Jesus's death and resurrection he was forgiven despite his shortcomings.
Typical sunni bullshitters .
They are not true Muslims,
They are Apostates.
They take from Islam what they like and they don't accept what they dont like .
How is this documentory about African spirituality? It's all about Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Why would anyone expect to hear genuine info about traditional African spirituality from the BBC?
igbo shrug
Thay say that Islam is a loving religion, but look at history all terrorist comes out of the muslim religion, so what does that tell you that muslim religion is not loving religion, but religion of hate, wake up world the arabs want to conquer the whole world, thay say it publicly many timed that if you not muslim and dont wann convert to Islam that you deserve then to die.
Wake up its time for world to wake up take care of this evil evil religious people of Islam!!!!! Before thay come to your front door!!!!!! Thay dont care about rest of world, evidance show it throughout history, thay only care about taking over world even if it means killing you and your family, wake up its time to deal with this sick evil Islamic people!!!!!!!😐😐😐😐
Here we have the original and the corrupted original coming from the land of corruption to talk about religion and not spirituality, on BBC it is like National geography or the Smithonian a charade of racist albino.
Yeshua-Jesus is the only way to heaven.
Plz africans protect your traditional religion ☯️ not cristianity and islam
Even in India in Hinduism we have ancestors worship and the parmatama worship, ancestor as Hanuman ji and Parmatam as nirakar shiv ling with aadi shakti.
Voodoo I Do !
This is the most superior person amongst the Flunkies dummies flunkies dummies thanking Allah me as their God daily as a feisty to learn from me. Wow if I wasn't in y'all residents presence. Y'all dumb Flunkies dummies thanking for me entertaining y'all
Well! Well!! Well!!! I can say that this was a very documented history of Africa, well prepared with Zeinab Bedawi at the steering. The whole fact that the Western world was controlling Africa as its own courtyard is still going on until now! Belgium, France, Britain and USA have sat their feet firmly on Africa, if you like or not. For the example, Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso is in dangerous position with France because his stand against any foreign interference in his country! The Europe will never give up. Africa should wake up and fight back. Follow the steps of Ibrahim Traore. Don’t give up! Congratulations to Zeinab and also congratulations to Burkina Faso. Long live AFRICA!
This presentation is intellectually and emotionally moving. Finally, our history is told to the world by one of own.
Africa is so huge. Which part of the African continent are you explaining religion from?
Disappointed with this episode, too heavily focused on Abrahamic religions, and not enough indigenous spiritually. Very disappointed.
They not talking to three's we talking to our grannies connected with God, and we are different kinds(nyanga,sangoma and those ones special )we not doing the same thing.
Will someone please explain why the African God(s) did not protect their people from chattel slavery? What was going on in the spiritual realm that allowed such an atrocity?
Such a weird pattern. Wherever is colonization there will be Christianity Judaism and Islam . They are joined by the hips with colonization
Africans.
Are so powerful and they know that
It irks me that it’s so disingenuous in describing why and how these African people turned away from their native beliefs 💔 it was that or death a lot of the time
21:44 What. Is. This?? Israelites could NEVER have been Caucasian lol. They’ll steal anything and everything, they have no shame 😂😂😂
24:34 😢😢😢😢 imagine turning Egypt Christian!? Doesn’t get much worse than that. Even the Ancient Greeks would think that an abomination. That’s terrible.
Also Jews in Zimbabwe southern Africa – the Lemba Jews.
You should have focused on solely African spirituality as the title of your video suggests but also when you were talking about Morocco you spoke about it as if it’s some Arabic country lol
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