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inkholo yesintfu inguko konkhe lokukumuntfu. Mdende ufakazelwa nguMbiti,
(1982) nakabeka ngemagama akhe atsi:
Because African Religion developed together with all the other
aspects of the heritage, it belongs to each people within which
it has evolved. It is not preached from one people to another.
Therefore a person must be born in a particular African people
in order to be able to follow African Religion in that group. It
would be meaningless and useless to try and transplant it to an
entirely different society outside of Africa, unless African
peoples themselves go with it there. Even within Africa itself,
religion takes on different forms according to different tribal
settings. For that reason, a person from one setting cannot
automatically and immediately adjUst himself to or adopt the
religious life of other African peoples in a different setting. The
people of Europe, America or Asia cannot be converted to
African Religion as it is so much removed from their
geographical and cultural setting.
(Mbiti, 1982:12-13).
Loku kukubeka ngalokusebaleni kutsi inkholo yesintfu ingulabo bantfu,
angeke nani wakwati kutsatsa umuntfu longasuye wemdzabu utsi
utawuvisisa inkholo yesintfu. Kungako Achebe naMaja-Pearce, (1964)
bagcizelela kutsi bantfu labamnyama abacalanga kuva ngemasiko ngekufika
kwebelumbi njengobe sekubonakala kwangatsi belumbi ngibo labasifundzisa
emasiko. Loku bakusho emhlanganweni webabhali lobewufundzisa ngebuve
nesitfunti sebantfu bendzabuko. Lomhlangano bewutama kutsi bantfu
babuyisele bubona babo. Asibeve bo-Achebe naMaja-Pearce nababeka
ngemagama abo kanjena:
African people did not hear of culture for the first time from
Europeans; that their societies were not mindless but frequently
had philosophy of great depth and beauty, that they had
poetry, and above all, they had dignity. It is this dignity that
many African peoples all but lost in the colonial period and it is
this dignity that they must now regain ...the writer's duty is to
help them regain it.
(Achebe naMaja-Pearce, 1964:157).
Vele sitfunti sebantfu bemdzabu salahleka kudzala abasativa bangibo, ingani
belumbi bafike batentela matsandza, behlisa sitfunti semasiko abendzabuko.
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