GOD OF GHANA SPEAKS - THE LOST

 "Ages pass and sages die, but all is not lost because history makes them live in our memory"

- E.K Braffi

When the God of Ghana speaks, He speaks to the children of Ghana. He speaks to this generation of spiritual deviants and confused souls of this land who have wandered away from the path of the ancients. Why have the people of Ghana become unbelieving of the book called Bible? Though the bible traveled across oceans to the golden shores of our humble home, we have still not realized that it warned us not to believe in it as the infallible words of our Ghana God. 

Before the arrival of the first European, the people of Ghana were not a religious people, we were a spiritual people. We called our God Nyame , Tweduampon, Totrobonsu, and other names in our ancient language. We believed in the ancient path paved by our glorious Ancestors. We lived in harmony through the guidance of the most high who communicated to us through the smaller gods (air, water, fire, earth), and the Priests. There were no churches, but there was sanity. Our culture, norms , and philosophies were carved to preserve the land and the people, to maintain a direct connection with Nyame through our well preserved smaller gods (air, water, fire, earth), who live in us and with us.

The European came with his bible and his European God in the year 1471, introduced religion to our people in order to disconnect us from our spiritual ways. It`astonishing to notice that  the European bible contains verses like.......

" This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'

The question here is that, does the bible acknowledge the Ancient paths? And if our people today believe  in this bible, why are they unbelieving of the Ancient paths. Why should the European God refer to the some Ancient paths? This bible goes ahead to tell our people about the European priests, prophets, and the church. In the book of Jeremiah 8; 1, it speaks of the scribes as follows ....

"How do ye say, we are wise, and the law of the lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain." .....even before there was any book called bible. It goes on to say in verse 9 that....

"The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the lord; and what wisdom is in them"...... Which word of God was it talking about? Was there a word of God in the Ancient path which did not require scribes and wise men to compile? About the european priests and prophets, their bible states in verse 10 of the same chapter...

"There will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priests every one dealeth falsely"

In the book of Hosea 6:9 it says....

"As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes."

Unbelievably, the European bible teaches it followers to avoid every priest, prophet, and places where they may be. Why did Ghanaians become christians? Why is some parts of the Euro-Christian bible considered obsolete and impracticable? How many Gods do christians worhip? Why so many doctrines?

As we all should know, there was an ancient belief in the one God "Nyame" (God Of Ghana), before a belief in our smaller gods. We always placed the almighty Nyame as the only one god above all gods, to be worshiped, through the smaller gods. Yet, how far have we gone by displacing our Ghana God and calling upon the European God? Where is our spirituality? Where is our knowledge of herbs to cure our diseases? Where is our knowledge of astrology, and the other sciences? 

Barely do we realize that when the European talks of the Ancient times, He is only referring to our glory days as children of Afrika and the great Kemet (today Egypt). The European is only talking about how he came to study and to become civilized in the temples of Kemet. He became jealous of our glory, and our natural resources, then racism was born. The only thing that the European needed to become superior after studying so much from our temples, was to invent his God. And after so doing, force his God on us through this device called religion. Spirituality existed everywhere on this planet Earth where there were civilized people before the European through his quest for superiority and greed decided to extend his christian God to replace the Gods of every nation. 

Through conquest, we lost track of the path of our Ancestors. We lost our freedom and strength as a nation. We lost the God of Ghana.

- Sankofa