The Africa that was / Arrested Development

All these masks, totems, paintings, amulets, and many more are taken far away from the people who believed in them, are numbered, classified and are stored in ethnological museums. Worse, the people who once believed in them believe now in other things. Bibles, Korans, USD and BMW’s. The worst trick done to Africans, was made them believe that they are decolonized. A people, whose religious and ethical system is robbed and replaced by something foreign will never be truly independent. If one wonders why Africa is there where it is, the loss of genuine African religion and ethics is definitely one of the reasons, if not THE reason. If there was a message which all these loaded artifacts are communicating, then it is definitely