A speech by King Leopald told to missionaries headed to Africa..." Teach the niggers to forget their African Gods ....
Letter From King Leopold II to Colonial Missionaries Heading to Africa, 1883
AFRICANGLOBE – Below is a letter written in 1883 by
King Leopold II
of Belgium to Belgian Christian missionaries being sent to Congo. These
Christian missionaries would eventually become the spearhead of
Belgian colonialism only to be followed by Belgian traders and lastly
the Belgian army.
Reverends, Fathers and Dear Compatriots:
The
task that is given to fulfill is very delicate and requires much tact.
You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must
inspire above all Belgium interests. Your principal objective in our
mission in the Congo is never to teach the n!ggers to know God, this
they know already. They speak and submit to a Mungu, one Nzambi, one
Nzakomba, and what else I don’t know.
They know that to kill, to
sleep with someone else’s wife, to lie and to insult is bad. Have
courage to admit it; you are not going to teach them what they know
already. Your essential role is to facilitate the task of administrators
and industrials, which means you will go to interpret the gospel in the
way it will be the best to protect your interests in that part of the
world. For these things, you have to keep watch on dis-interesting our
savages from the richness that is plenty [in their underground. To avoid
that, they get interested in it, and make you murderous] competition
and dream one day to overthrow you.
Your knowledge of the gospel
will allow you to find texts ordering, and encouraging your followers to
love poverty, like “Happier are the poor because they will inherit the
heaven” and, “It’s very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of
God.” You have to detach from them and make them disrespect everything
which gives courage to affront us. I make reference to their Mystic
System and their war fetish – warfare protection – which they pretend
not to want to abandon, and you must do everything in your power to make
it disappear.
Your action will be directed essentially to the
younger ones, for they won’t revolt when the recommendation of the
priest is contradictory to their parent’s teachings. The children have
to learn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is the father of
their soul. You must singularly insist on their total submission and
obedience, avoid developing the spirit in the schools, teach students to
read and not to reason.
There, dear patriots, are some of the
principles that you must apply. You will find many other books, which
will be given to you at the end of this conference. Evangelize the
n!ggers so that they stay forever in submission to the White
colonialists, so they never revolt against the restraints they are
undergoing. Recite every day – “Happy are those who are weeping because
the kingdom of God is for them.”
The letter which follows is Courtesy of Dr. Vera Nobles and Dr. Chiedozie Okoro.
Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883.
Convert
always the Blacks by using the whip. Keep their women in nine months of
submission to work freely for us. Force them to pay you in sign of
recognition-goats, chicken or eggs-every time you visit their villages.
And make sure that n!ggers never become rich. Sing every day that it’s
impossible for the rich to enter heaven. Make them pay tax each week at
Sunday mass.
Use the money supposed for the poor, to build
flourishing business centres. Institute a confessional system, which
allows you to be good detectives denouncing any Black that has a
different consciousness contrary to that of the decision-maker.
Teach
the n!ggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. Never
present a chair to a Black that comes to visit you. Don’t give him more
than one cigarette.
Never invite him for dinner even if he gives you a chicken every time you arrive at his house.
“The
above speech which shows the real intention of the Christian missionary
journey in Africa was exposed to the world by Mr. Moukouani Muikwani
Bukoko, born in the Congo in 1915, and who in 1935 while working in the
Congo, bought a second hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the
speech in the Bible. – Dr. Chiedozie Okoro
Africans Should Note:
1] that all missionaries carried out, and still carry out, that mandate. We are only lucky to
have found King Leopold’s articulation of the aim of all Christian imperialist missionaries to Africa.
2]
Even the African converts who today manage the older churches in Africa
(the priests, bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals etc of the Roman and
Protestant sects), and especially also those who evangelize Born-Again
Christianity, still serve the same mandate. Which is why they demonize
African gods and Anglicize African names, and drop the names of African
deities which form part of African names; and still attack and demolish
the African shrines that have managed to survive, e.g. Okija.
3]
Those Africans who voluntarily converted to Christianity before the
colonial conquest such as Affonso I of the BaKongo in the 15th century
probably did not discern the purpose of the brand of Christianity that
was supplied to them. Which was probably why they fell easy prey to
the missionaries and the White traders and pirates who followed them.
But
their Japanese counterparts probably did discern the game, even without
access to some version of Leopold’s letter. But even if the Japanese
Shoguns did not intuit what Leopold makes explicit, they clearly
realized the danger of Japanese converts to Christianity forming a fifth
column within Japanese society and state, a fifth column loyal to their
co-religionists in Europe.
Asar Maa Ra Gray
"It's Ok Not to Know, It's a Shame Not to Want to know"
Dr. Clarke
