Africa

Throughout the reading of the Black Atlantic, there has been several topics that seem to be very prominent, some of these the topics of are Colonialism and Emigration. These topics eventually break into smaller subtopics; one of these subtopics seems to be the idea of evangelization. This leads heavily to what really was this idea of evangelization, and it starts to open up questions such as if the colonizers were evangelizing or proselyting the people of Africa? While readings several documents I got mixture of both, several of the writers were wrap up with the thought of this concept of Africa being delivered the word of the colonizer. Other writers were not much for this concept, as they saw that it was more of exploiting Africa for it riches, but they also as well that this idea of religion could eventually benefit Africa. The writers I closely embody this way of thinking were Delany, Crummell and Crowther. Each writer closely resembles the same thoughts of religion being a tool to prosper the people of Africa, but also Africa as a Global identity. Another writer that perhaps might have touch upon these points, but in a more expanded role was W.E. Dubois.

W.E Dubois talks heavily about this idea of “Double Consciousness”, the concepts primarily is of how the black man has a double consciousness and that what each black man desire is to form the singular state of both consciousness into one, and that this one consciousness become an identity of both. This idea of having two thought, two souls, two unreconciled strives and two warring ideals, stems from both colonialism and emigration, the reason for that is one consciousness is made up from someone else’s eyes, this could refer to the colonizer implementing all the ideas to t...

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... neglected, but due to the fact that the black man was acknowledge as worthy of being illuminated, that there’s seems to be hope for Africa now due to the establishments of the missionaries. Lastly, Crowther a bishop, who was in all in favor of bringing Christianity to Africa, was very devoted to the Christian faith and wrote segments of the bible in African language. Crowther was an advocate of having the Christian missionaries be established in Africa, he like Delany believed that Africa was not up to par with the world, in terms of wealth, knowledge and technology and that Christianity was a way to bring these elements to Africa, also Crowther goes in depth with the “Africa for Africans alone” which he believed was an ignorant solution and the Africa needed help from the outside to have a sense of improvement and that the Christianity was doing that for Africa.