Is Christianity a Problem?
Dr Chancellor Williams an influential historian among many Africans said this about the Early Christianity brought by Western missionaries and their nations, that they “used Christianity to spread their hidden agendas of conquest and for the imposition of their Western values, ideas turning the African man into the white man’s image (Williams 1987:56).” here he said that conversion to Christ did not become central to many of these missionaries but was replaced with the conversion of the African man to European civilization. From such a quote and many others similar to it stems the claim that Christianity brought by Europeans was a white man religion, introduced to Africans through Western colonisation with the purpose of pacifying, deceiving and indoctrinating the Africans to be blind to their oppression. In the eyes of many followers of Dr Williams African Christians are either perceived as ignorant or anti African people. They are viewed as those who work against the int...