If Africans can see how their affiliations with Christianity and Islam is further improving Europe and Saudi Arabia and stagnating them through the influences these religions have on their government (social organization), then maybe they will begin to see the need to develop (evolve) their own spiritual system to contemporary taste and then begin to export same.
Christianity is simply a religious name for European culture wound around a mythology. Christianity is a part of European culture. Islam is a part of Arabian culture. Ifa/Òrìṣà is a part of African culture.
If you neglect your Culture and embrace a foreign culture and then complain that your home country is not progressing, the question you should ask yourself is this "if you neglect your own father's house to build another person's father's house, does it still make sense for you to complain that your own father's house is not fine?"
For example, Yoruba spirituality includes marital procedures, burial procedures, children raising procedures, community organizational procedures and most importantly, justice system. It also includes our medicine and it serves as our means of education - passing down of productive knowledge from generation to generation.
This simply means that the neglect of Ifá/Òrìṣà Tradition is a neglect of the above important social structure.
We took a foreign culture and hope to adapt it to our African nature. We are trying to imitate Europe and Saudi Arabia, we can never be the best of ourselves like that. We must be authentic. Tẹni ń Tẹni.
The truth is that we didn't take these foreign cultures willingly (contrary to what many will like you to believe), it was forced upon us by the guns of the colonizers.
The remaining part of our struggle against this beast therefore is the complete rejection of his culture and the embracing of our own culture.
Many people run away from the culture because it is not so attractive now. We love places decked in gold and silver. We are scared (or put off) of the mixing together of leaves and natural elements. Abandoning it is not the way forward rather to Embrace it no matter how crude it looks. To own it and then evolve it to what you think it should be. There is a lot of room for improvement in the spirituality. It has suffered stagnation due to over 200 years of neglect. Those who are educated amongst us are too proud to associate with the system, we prefer to sit in the church of the Whiteman or the Mosque of the brown desert man.
This is not good enough. You are doing yourself and your generation a great disservice by neglecting the blessings that Olódùmarè gave to your own forefathers.
WE WILL GO BACK TO OUR ROOTS AND WE (YORUBA/AFRICA) WILL RISE.
THIS IS THE MISSION WE ARE ABOUT TAKE.
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