In Southern Nigeria, the first Church, the Aruosa Church was created in 1506 in Benin, while the first mosque started in Oyo-Ile around 1550.
A casual observer will wonder how the two Oranmiyan power centers embarked, around the same time, the long process that replaced the Original African belief system and robbed the people of their true cultural identity and linkages.
Unfortunately, this question can’t be answered by the linear Western approach to history. It requires an Original African dualistic and systematic approach to understand why they happened around the same time and if lessons could be learnt.
The African Information retrieval system aka Afa-Ifa-Iha-Efa is the world’s first knowledge bank and religion. It spread civilization across the world – intellectual foundations of mathematics, sciences and advanced social organization.
After spreading all the way to South east Asia, it began to encounter resistance and reversal all the way back to its origin in Southern Nigeria.
It has been established that there is a trend of roughly 250yrs that brings global structural changes, culturally, politically and economically.
This trend is spiritually linked to Oya, the Orisha of revolutionary change, in Western astrology it’s called Pluto.
There is also a longer trend, the 2000yr cycle that dictates global consciousness based on a particular philosophy. The last 2000yrs has been an era of religion, known as the era of 2nd horseman, the New Testament, the Age of Olokun or Pisces.
Fitting the 250yr cycle in the larger 2,000yr cycle, you have 8 Oya 250yr cycles of revolutionary change in our sociopolitical evolution.
To start the outgoing 2000yr Olokun era, we had the birth of Christ and the beginning of the Roman Empire. Around 250yrs later, we had the unification of Christian beliefs, later solidified with the Nicene creed.
Christianity and Islam took over with their long swords, clearing out Black Africans in North Africa and West Europe and creating global imperialistic structures in 500AD and 750AD
By 1000AD, the Islamists took global power, destroyed Jerusalem, took over the Sahel and ruled Europe through Spain up to Paris.
Around 1270, the Europeans designed the gun and used it to repel the Islamists and advance into their African territories.
This led to the establishment of the mosque in the northern reaches of the Original African sphere and the Church in its southern coast.
This brought huge cultural changes in the Black African heartland.
Oyo Empire that had been ran over by Nupe Islamists in 1520s and had it’s royal court move to Igboho, returned to build a new militaristic empire with humans exchanged for guns, in contrast to its previous empire built on cultural linkages. It created the Aare Ona Kakanfo (Field Marshal) post.
Benin and Kongo also witnessed the fundamental changes. Though Benin banned slavery and Europeans around 1515, it later joined the arms race that smaller kingdoms were using to challenge its dominance.
Kongo, the third largest Original African Kingdom, fell into the arms for slaves trap with the imposition of Alfonso.
Igbos not only witnessed the establishment of Churches but had its original African culture, especially the Arochukwu sect corrupted for trans Atlantic slavery.
While the 1500s cultural changes were largely limited to the ruling elite, 250yrs later, starting from 1770s, the Abrahamist moved towards direct colonization of Original African land and people.
The military leadership role, Aare Ona Kakanfo, devised in the 1500s as a reaction to repel Islamists and expand territory, became the nemesis of Oyo, as first in 1770s Bashorun Gaa and soon afterwards in 1817 Afonja challenged and destroyed Oyo hierarchy with the help of Fulani Islamists.
The Haitian Ogun revolution that used Original African cultural platform to break the Christian stranglehold, culminated in the Christian enslavers switching their focus to African colonization, starting with France in 1817 after the defeat of Napoleon war and loss of French America.
Around the same time, the Fulani Islamists set out to colonize huge swathe of original African territories.
The superior firepower of the Christian colonists enabled them takeover Africa. In Nigeria, the Fulani Islamists struck an indirect rule arrangement with the British colonists.
A thousand years, 4 Oya 250yr cycles earlier, the Coptic Christians in control of Black Egypt had handed over the Egyptian army to the invading Islamists and agreed to an indirect rule arrangement that lasted for 250yrs until the Islamists outplayed them for complete control.
The question now in 2019, at the end of the 250yr cycle that started around 1770, is which way forward for the original African sphere? Annihilation or renaissance?
The two possible outcomes are either the Original Africans unite in cultural platform to repel their colonists like they did in Haiti?
Or like in Egypt, where both Abrahamic religions engaged in indirect rule, the Islamists will kick out the Christian colonists to assume complete control and Islamization of Southern Nigeria?
As it is, the Islamists are in power and vowing to place the Christian colonists in bodybags if they dare to interrupt their rule and plans for wholesale Islamization.
The Christian colonists are believed to relish the confrontation that will bring anarchy and enable them to land peacekeeping troops, reorganize our army and put in place a new young cabal.
Ordinarily, this last option appears to be the most feasible though most unfavorable and disheartening.
However, there is hope with the change in the 2000yr cycle from an era of Olokun, the Age of Pisces, the 2nd Horseman of religion, to a new era Shango of enlightenment and global Black ascendancy, the era of the 3rd horseman, the Age of Aquarius.
Though like with economic predictions of boom or bust, you have to be an investor to take advantage of the economic trends.
So Original Africans, the Niger-Kongo ethnolinguistic groups, have to understand the sign of times and unite to challenge the status quo at the right time.
Original Africans should be ready to take advantage when the Abrahamists clash for complete control, like the Haitians did during the French class War, or the Bolshevik Russian revolutionaries took advantage during the colonists War called the First World War.
It can’t be too soon, before the Abrahamists have exacted damage on each other, so we can then enable their mutually assured destruction from our lands.
This is why we must move away from the linear approach to history by the Western academia and learn the trends in history that enables informed decisions.
