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 Emily Breithaupt

Harris 

ENGL 2016-44378

11/16/22

Throughout the course of the class, we have read texts about African spirituality and Christianity. Many Africans were persuaded very heavily or forced to be converted to Christianity. This most likely caused them or others around them to feel they were betraying what they had been taught their whole lives. This is shown in the novel Homegoing when Effia, married to a white man, was told that her beliefs were “black magic” and would have to be hidden. Although the things she did, like putting the roots under the bed to help with fertility, were something she believed would help and were innocent, they were not what the white men believed it was different and scary. When the white settlers were in Africa, that would teach the Africans they had to believe in Christianity, or they would not have a god afterlife. This is something that is sad to think that some people could come and change the beliefs of people who have had a belief system that had been around longer than Christianity. These people feared something they did not believe in, and instead of learning the belief, they chose to be ignorant to it and force people to be something different. The spiritual things the Africans believed in were something that helped them to get through tough times. For example, in the Afro-Atlantic Flight, the Igbo people believed Mami Wata would carry them home from the horror of the slave ships, and they threw themselves off the boat. The way the Christian people taught the Africans about Christianity was wrong. Instead of being so aggressive and using scare tactics to scare them into believing this way, they should have taught in a more loving way to show them that this new religion could be another way of having hope for the future or their afterlife. 

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