This is how African identity has taken away from us by the missionaries of Europe (people who taught people about Christianity). Ultimately the success of the missionaries in southern Africa appears to have hinged upon their ability to provide viable agricultural land for indigenous settlement at a time when Black-owned land was being increasingly alienated for white usufruct. Residence on mission lands however had its price. Tyler (1891) reported in 1891 that the church at Nqumba, Natal, had adopted, among several others, the following rules: No polygamist shall be allowed to become a member of this church. He who sells his daughter or sister treats her like a cow, and cannot be received into this church. No member of this church shall be permitted to attend a wedding if beer is drunk there, although he may have been invited to it. No member of this church is allowed to go where there is slaughtering for the departed spirits.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:02:57 +0000
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