Dear Editor,HAVE you ever sat down to reflect on how Europe with so many millions of people who don’t believe in God, has less maternal mortality rate than Zambia where our mothers pray everyday and never miss Sunday worship?The difference is not the amount of faith or God loving white people more but the quality of primary health care or the lack of it.To understand the extent to which religion is more of a yoke than it is an emancipatory tool that can lead to economic success in Africa, allow me to take you back a little.When Belgian missionaries set out to Congo, now the DRC, King Leopold II instructed them that their knowledge of the gospel was to be used to preach scripture ordering and encouraging their followers to love poverty, like “Happier are the poor because they will inherit heaven” or “It’s very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God.”He […]
PRAYER IS NOT PART OF AN ECONOMIC EQUATION.
