What is blacks first religion?

[OD-MELA]

I almost sure this is Nigeria.


Either post some facts to refute the claims or shut the fukk up. No one gives a flying fukk about your personal opinions regarding the coli.

Boring

 

[Blackqueergenius]

No doubt. Benin, Togo, and Ivory Coast are well known for their Voodo. They have entire markets dedicated to the selling of voodo worship artifacts:

interesting how crackas can always find the worst in africa, very interesting and yet
Akon Launches Academy To Help Provide Electricity To 600 Million People In Africa

wheres this documentary, NOT short mention BUT ACTUAL FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTARY

 

[Sccit]

Islam is Judaism perfected

U CAN NOT PERFECT AN ORIGINAL CLASSIC

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Doesn't look like a peer-reviwed source. Most peer-reviewed studies on African-American studies I read show them coming from Nigeria. Plus slaves were later banned from Angola due to constant rebellion.

the biggest singular slave stock of Aframs is

1.Angola
2.Senegambia

I've read books on the subject which say Angola/Congo is the source of most African American slaves. Additionally, books are cited on the webpage.

Where's your source on slaves from Angola being banned?

Singular source, not overall source

 

[IllmaticDelta]

No such thing breh. Different tribes had different rituals and way of life

this is the correct answer

 

[KOohbt]

Fact 1:
Some slaves taken over were Muslim but most were not. Highest proportion of African Americans are from Angola.Then Senegambia is next, I believe.

yeah only maybe 30% were muslim. a lot of people get confused and think we were mostly muslim. but a lot of our ancestors were fleeing those areas because of islam which is why they went to the forest regions from the sahel heavy between 900 - 1400.

 

[KOohbt]

https://www.nps.gov/ethnography/research/docs/ggsrs_book.pdf

II think that people think that because Nigeria exported a lot of slaves then those slaves must have ended up in America. What people fail to realize is that the USA did not import that many slaves. Nigerian slaves went mostly to the Caribbean nations and South America and we know this because the Yoruba people still practice Santeria in those areas.

The only Nigerian slaves brought to the USA in any significant numbers were Igbo people. That is misleading too, because a lot of times it was not Igbo people being exported out of the Bight of Biafra; but it was Tikar people (Bamoun and Bamilke) of Cameroon and Kaba people of Chad.

The largest block of slaves brought to the USA were from the Kingdom of Mali (modern countries of Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, etc.). That is why people always joked that African Americans were big Mandingos; because most African Americas are descended from the Mandinka people. That is who Alex Haley traced his roots back to in Roots.

The other large group that African Americans come from is the Kingdom of Kongo (Angola, Republic of Congo, Cabinda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Gabon). Another large group of slaves came from the Akan people of the central and southern region of Ghana and the Ivory Coast. This group was traded due to the rise of Ashanti. The Ashanti forced tribes around them to pay tribute. Tribes could either pay in gold, which is what the Ashanti wanted; or the tribute paying states could pay in slaves. Some tribes paid in slaves, which meant that they had to raid neighboring Akan people like the Brong in Central Ghana and Baoule people of the Ivory Coast. The Ashanti sold the slaves to the English. The English acknowledge that the Ashanti were not slave traders and the Ashanti were clearly not trying to sell other captured Akan people. The Ashanti used the slaves to work in the Gold mines, which is what the Bonoman Empire (Ashanti, Brong, Baoule etc) was all about; but later when the English asked to buy some of the slaves the Ashanti sold them. Btw, Ghana apologized for Ghana's role in the slave trade.

GHANA APOLOGIZES FOR ITS ROLE IN SLAVE TRADE: Countrys 50th anniversary includes tourism campaign

good info, breh

west african history is deep.

so much history in those areas we haven't even scratched the surface of

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Funny how over time Islam has become the black man's religion and Christianity the white man's yet neither is true. They both originated from the same place. Why people continue to spew this nonsense is beyond me

truth

 

[Concerning VIolence]

Absolutely hilarious and sad but not shocking that people in here are arguing over 2 religions that their slave ancestors didn't give no fukks about because it didn't exist to them and their only contact with was through slavery, conquest, and missionaries (colonialists). Maybe slight probability for Islam, but your west African slave ancestors 9/10 didn't follow no abrahamic bullshyt.


I can say without a doubt my ancestors were followers of Vodun.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Observation of the natural world is our 1st and should be our only religion

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

People have been worshipping the Nature and their Ancestors before Christianity even existed as a concept.

Paganism, Animism, and Ancestor worship precede Christianity/Islam.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

This.

And other non-Abrahamic religions.

 

[Neuromancer]

This.

And other non-Abrahamic religions.

Yep.