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EP #5 — Africans Don’t Need Religion. We Need Memory |

   May 6, 2025  42 Comments
EP #5 — Africans Don’t Need Religion. We Need Memory |



Join Sir Max and Great Bishop Joshua Maponga in a fearless conversation that tears down the walls of organized religion and colonial mindsets to reveal a path back to authentic African living. Maponga unpacks why “direction is more important than speed,” how the church “is threatened by genius,” and why “we don’t need a new Africa, we need new Africans.” From the playful yet profound “affection, erection, direction” metaphor to his pilgrimage across real African soil, this episode challenges you to awaken from psychological slumber, reclaim ancestral wisdom, and build communities steeped in indigenous values. A wake-up call you can’t afford to miss.

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42 thoughts on “EP #5 — Africans Don’t Need Religion. We Need Memory |”

  3. Maponga believe in Jesus Christ as your saviour before it's too late….because whether you like it or not it is written that every kneel shall bow….bow before it's too late because immediately u die,you will go & see for your self but it will be too late when u did not accept Jesus & refrained from sin & worldliness…..without Jesus you are nothing says the bible

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  4. Jesus, God, and the Spirit of God were always with humanity. Europe's idea of it is not defining or redefining what was first known to Adam and Eve. They say we as Africans were the first humans. If that is true what I am choosing to believe is that we strayed from what we were told–as the scripture details. It also means Africans were the first Jewish people or the first to know God–directly without any intervening people or separation. The relationship with God is not about race or nation-states. As a Jamaican, I struggle to understand why people are unable to think for themselves. We are people. And because we have a brain, we were intended to win in life. Winning is defined wrong in America and other nations seeking to live their lives as animals. Africa failed in one way: It did not believe in itself. It now is clearly saying it does. Jamaica and all non-Europeans failed to believe in themselves. I may believe the God who created all things is in fact Jewish but I do not believe that everyone was making up their own ideas but ended up with the same thing–family, community, morals, land being sacred, animals having a special place in life, etc. Jewish ideas are literally not new. Meaning all of us know some of it. Some cultures are extremely Jewish without a Bible because the oral tradition of how to live on earth was always spoken and remembered. So yes, we need memory. Perhaps what I am willing to explain is how to test God the right way. Meaning…if God is real…He speaks for Himself. Not one country, race, or people can speak on His behalf. In my short 41 years on earth, I know this to be true. God is not a man…and He never needs to repent. I hope Africa embraces itself. I have longed for it for 18 years and have enjoyed hearing Lumumba and Maponga. It makes me see I was right…I do not belong with cultures that disrespect Africa or its children. I never will.

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  5. Africans were the first Jewish people (people who were instructed in the ways of God) or the first to know God–directly without any intervening people or separation. I had to add that into my comment below but want to make clear why I believe Maponga is right. I just think that Europe made God about themselves. And because they "believed" in themselves…not God…God became white and being white became a worldwide idol. Maponga is ending that idea. Their idea was always anti-Christ or anti-God as revealed in Genesis. They go so far as to say NO GOD created the world. It was an accident and white people became the top of the food chain via natural selection. All of Africa must have lost its collective mind when it heard that for the first time and understood these "white people" assumed themselves to be the "best." Africa was not defining itself as such throughout its history. Even the worse African dictators were led by a god. That "god" made them relevant. And the spirituality of Africa–good and bad–was never doubted. As for Europe, they went to Satan and said yes. No one wants to say it but it is obvious. All of AFrica did not do that. But all of Europe did. They could not stop killing each other because of that choice and for centuries all I see in their history is wars to kill other white people–at first. Satan took over Europe and wants the world. I love the few teachings online that I have listened to from Maponga. I am grateful you interviewed him. I hope that the central idea he states will NOT be lost–Africans understand God in ways no one else does. What I personally do is not for Africa to concern itself with as it relates to God but Africa needs to BELIEVE in what it was given. I believe Africa needs space to do so and should separate itself on that journey to finding itself again–as God's first humans and therefore, a key piece in returning us to being whole–worldwide.

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  6. I may not need any religion but i do have a connection to my NKWUM Great Primeval Force. NKWUM-NKWUM, NKWUM-Ruah, NKWUM-Shakhina, NKWUM-Amun, NKWUM-Hayah, NKWUM-Nyum, NKWUM-ELYON, NKWUM-ABBA.
    -Aabid-NKWUM
    BYUBI Asafwa

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  12. If we could all ready and listen to the teachings of pastor Joshua Maponga, we would be wise enough to understand that we Africans are lost and driven to the duck systematically by colonialism. You came as light and Africa will see through it. Thank you pastor Maponga
    From South Africa

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  21. Metatron was with Enoch, Metatron was with Muhammad (Abraham-Hagar)Metatron is with Shiloh (Abraham-Sarah)Black Hebrew Messiah. Tribe of Ephraim House of Joseph. Isiah 53 alive and observing. King. SAMARIAN not Samaritan. Born under an apple tree (tropical)Caribbean. Not in a smelly manger with animals .Who shall believe our report and to whom is the arm of the ALMIGHTY revealed.

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  22. Great lecture.what is your view regarding Indians n chinese??mine is that indians are no saints at all.instead they are worse.check how the from/use blacks when they go for tenders.once got it,blacks are shadowed out the scene only to given maximum 0.01% of billion turnover.Idi Amin was way ahead regarding the cruelty of indians against africans.if african goes to indian,will he ever called indian???not under this sun.why indians n chinese are nicknamed africans when gong for BBBEE tenders?

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  30. AFRICA IS THE HOLY. LAND. and the. Negroes. Are. YAH,,s. Chosem people. Africans. And the diaspora. Pf the slave trade,,,😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

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  32. Watching from america such a handsome educated man of power , knowledge and wisdom thank you so much listening has me thinking and making it all makes sense of what I've been questioning I'm glad I'm not alone here

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  35. I use to hear this a lot from black religious crackheads before Covid-19…that the color of Jesus does not matter. Well, Covid-19 challenged all the religion nonsense when it was declared none essential…they all got more than one year to get their brains 🧠 together and think. Black people finally woke up.

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  38. To the Elephant Clan, Children of the Matriarch, Keepers of Memory,

    I write this with dust on my feet and the old songs in my chest 🐘

    Elephants don’t forget. That is our blood. So I’m calling us back to what we carried before ships, before borders, before they told us our memory was “savage”.

    Remember the faith we held.
    Like elephants at the waterhole, we gathered in circles to give thanks. We prayed to the Creator through rain on dry earth, through the rumble in the ground, through the breath of the forest. We didn’t need stone walls — the whole world was our temple, and we knew every path by heart.

    Remember our spirituality.
    We honored the ancestors the way elephants honor their dead. We returned to the bones. We touched the tusks of those who came before. We listened. Their names were blessings, not curses. Their footprints in the soil meant this land knew us, and we knew it.
    Our elders were matriarchs. Our healers knew the plants. Our storytellers kept the maps in their minds. Wisdom passed trunk to trunk, generation to generation.

    Then they came. And they used the Bible as a colonizing tool.
    They carried it in one hand and chains in the other. They read “love thy neighbor” while fencing off our grazing lands. They taught “forget not the Lord” while beating us for speaking the names of our own fathers and mothers.
    They called our ancestors “demons” because they feared our memory. They called their conquerors “saints” because they wanted us to forget who really protected us.
    They tried to cut our tusks. They tried to break the herd. They tried to make elephants forget.

    What was stolen: our languages of prayer, our rites of passage, our medicine, our paths tied to the seasons and the stars.
    What was changed: they flipped the meaning. The matriarchs who guided us became monsters in their stories. Their lies became our history lessons.

    But elephants remember. That is the wound — and that is our power.

    I’m writing so we don’t forget. So our calves don’t grow up thinking their great-grandmothers were evil because a foreign book said so. So we can reclaim what’s ours — not with hate, but with memory. Not by fighting God, but by fighting the colonizer’s version of Him.

    Tell me what you remember, Elder. Tell me the path your grandmother walked to the sacred grove. Tell me the song she hummed when the rains came. Tell me the name of the elephant whose bones we still visit.

    Let’s jot it down now, trunk to hand, before more is lost. Let’s write our truth in the dust and in ink. The Elephant Clan was never lost. We were only made to be quiet.

    We remember. We are still here. 🐘🐘

    With love and thunder in my chest,
    Juliet Joanne Cana child of the herd

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  40. I have sent this to my clan.
    My Funeral Wishes
    When I die, my funeral or memorial must be completely non-religious. No religious songs, hymns, prayers, readings, symbols, or officiants of any faith. If anyone begins a religious song, prayer, or reading, they must be immediately and politely ushered out of the service. I do not wish to be recolonised in my death as I was in life 🧬

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