By Dr Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura

THE conditioning of African people on the idea of the white man as their saviour and all mankind seems to be irreversible.
It goes deep down into the bone and marrow of the whole being of African people throughout the world, in Africa and the African Diaspora.
Its grip on them is of religious, spiritual and metaphysical proportions.
It festers like a boil in the intellectual imagination and psychological makeup of the African as a person or human being.
Yet Africans live amazing and comfortable lives enveloped in its smell in their homes, schools and churches without nausea.
Everywhere in Africa and African Diaspora the white man is the African idea of God and Jesus. From Kindergarten through Primary School to Secondary School our children are presented with the white man as the example of how God and Jesus look like.
By the time they get to University as adults the Africans have opened the doors into the rooms of their minds for the white man to come in and settle and guide them with his rod and staff as a saviour through the shadows of the valleys, mountains and forests of Africa which they are told is a hell on earth by the white man.
But which the white man privately knows is a Paradise and reserves for himself to enjoy with his kith and kin.
Meanwhile, Africans who have become politicians are busy opening the doors of their countries for more white men to come and feast on the wealth and heritage of our children and children’s children.
Meanwhile these so-called politicians for Africa look on smiling from ear to ear feeding and dining with the white man as if they are enjoying the Last Supper.
Meanwhile, the majority of African people, men, women and children look on with little to eat on their floors or rickety tables in the villages and township ghettos.
African scholars who have researched widely on the Bible in Religious Studies and History know that Jesus was African, but insist on conceptualising him and teaching him to their students as a white man.
African priests and pastors in Africa and African Diaspora do the same.
They know very well that Jesus is not a white man but a black African but continue to display pictures of the white man as Jesus to their congregations and in their churches.
One witnesses an amazing spectacle of Africans throughout Africa, Zimbabwe and the Black Diaspora on Christmas and New Year’s Eve on television bowing down before an unshaven blond-haired blue-eyed white-male dripping with purple-blood on the cross as their God or Messiah on Earth.
Gospel musicians in Africa and Zimbabwe are also quite incorrigible in their idea of God, Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the angels as white people in their music videos.
In the final analysis, it seems that when it comes to matters of religion, spirituality and salvation for Africans, even those Africans who have sacrificed their lives fighting to liberate African people from the diabolic and evil economic, political, cultural, religious and legal systems of governance that the white man has put in place in Africa to oppress, exploit and impoverish the Africans, even them never seem to wake up to the idea that the white man did not come to Africa to save the African but to condemn the African and create a Hell for Africans here on Earth.
It never occurs to Africans to pause for a while and ask themselves whether there has ever been a white man anywhere in world history who came to Africa to lay down his life to liberate Africans, and if so, to liberate Africans from who?
Why does a white man want to liberate Africans? Is the white man himself liberated? Why does he not liberate white people?
Are white people liberated?
Do they not have sins?
What about the sin of colonising Africans, taking away their land and subjugating them to slavery and selling them like beasts of burden?
The reality before us all to see is that if the black man has to be saved, the sin that he has to be saved from is the sin of worshipping the white man as a Jesus instead of worshipping God who blessed the African with a land full of resources and endowments as a heritage from his children and children’s children.