When did God come according to geographies now? This dividing is problematic cos God is not about division, God has little regard for where one is but what matters is you praise and do good. Now Africa, well there are so many different kinds of beliefs you can't say Africans have no God - that's ignorant and ill-informed. The Shona of Zimbabwe praised God through fire and through rain making ceremonies and this is still practiced today, in South Africa the Zulu, the Xhosa, the Pedi, the Tswana all have their own specific cultural ways of praising God. Just because Christianity might be dominant in Afrca, people have still kept to their ways and they will still recognise the different Gods within their cultures such as the many Gods of Akan culture or Yoruba culture in West Africa that are called upon daily. Even in some Churches people sing songs but its an African fashion with drums, hosho and other traditional instruments so that religion (NOTE RELIGION NOT GOD) brought by the Europeans has been "Africanised"
...I don't think Jesus can be put above Sellasie as the I say, its a matter of perspective and world-positionings that have made it such that Jesus is the dominant figure. But for I n I there are no such heirarchies, those seek to politicise faith.
And there is no fear of letting go of Christianity, that is the doctrine, Christ is the figure and this figure really is historically linked to Sellasie I, so what's to let go when this is fact, you want Rastas to deny Christ and yet you quest for overing of an African God. Sellasie I is HIM. And even more Sellasie recognises Christ, and I don't think Rasta seeks to carve out a space that is exclusivley Rasta cos its an open movement one that touches all faiths; Islam, traditional African beliefs, Buddhism too, so this day of solely Rasta prophets and Sellasie has to be with that meditation (not to say that such a vision is not a positive one but Rasta as I say is not a divisive movement.)
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