Jack Black Hand Healer

In the recent history of Nigeria, June 12 became a very special and important day. It has become a symbolic day that reminds Nigerians of their history of many broken dreams, a fact that ordinary people of this country can not even be allowed to become what they want to be, to choose leaders that If they want to choose for themselves.

June 12th is the birthday of a remarkable Nigerian man whose kind graces of the world once in a day. On June 12 this year, Temitope Balogun Joshua, pastor of Healing Nigeria extraordinary preacher, prophet and humanitarian, turns a few years only 46 earth. But only God Almighty himself (judging by the depth and wisdom displayed by Joshua) who can tell the true age of this wonderful man of God.

Until I looked at the history of Nigeria over dwarfs besieged Prophet TB Joshua Emmanuel TV earlier this year, my attitude toward organized religion has been one of indifference or even hostility pure and simple. And who could really blame the other for this? If the general attitude of many religious people today and our leadership is anything to go by - and I mean all the popular religions in this country - then it is time to consider Satanism as an option!

It is also impossible for any serious in Africa, a student of history and who took care of research on black history and rely on facts, the role that religion (especially Christianity and Islam) has played and still plays in the submission of black, not to be bitter and suspicious of anything religious. It is only human.

The world, for example, celebrates each year the plight of Jews in concentration camps of Birkenau and Auswitch. But nobody ever mentions the horrible massacres and enslavement of Bakongo five centuries earlier, and the fate of the last Mani Kongo, which even transmuted to Dom Afonso I of Mvemba Nzinga, the conversion to Christianity thinking he was dealing with honest people of God.

Today, the ongoing genocide in Sudan Omar al-Bashir is there for all to see. But what is the so-called civilized world is on this scourge and well orchestrated decimation of populations of black Africa in this country? Why even other independent African countries pretending to do something, while the long-suffering people of Darfur are constantly wasting away?

Given the long history of struggle for the survival of the black race and the terrible things that happened to our people in the past and continue to occur, many African elites have made skeptics of religious issues. This cynicism is precisely captured by the war song of one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, (1791-1804) Born in Jamaica, Bookman Dutty, now known as' The Prayer of Bookman.

This revolution, which began nearly a half century earlier by the Maroon leader, Francois Makandal was successfully completed by black fighters, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Unfortunately, the fight has been a tragic end when the white officers of Napoleon Bonaparte deceived the last leader of the revolution, a mulatto named Toussaint Louverture. Toussaint was quickly dispatched to exile in France where he was executed by means of hunger and cold.

The revolution is off, and since then, Haiti, the first independent black nation on earth has never been allowed to be the same. And none of them Nigeria, either, since our so-called independence - which is ours in Nigeria, the only black nation on earth has the capacity and sufficient resources, human and material to the strike on its own. The deepest roots of Nigeria's myriad problems arise in matters of race and religion.

For me, therefore - and as I believe, for many of my peers - Jesus Christ alone has become a symbol of deception of the West, cheat.