Religion and African Pluriversalism

Africa is known with indigenous, strong and rich heritage ranging from culture, tradition, belief system, to languages and norms and morale. These had existed centuries before the incidence of colonialism in Africa. This paper seeks to look at the nature of imported religious identities and how they have over the years influenced the diverse African traditional knowledge and truth. The methodologies of this paper are combination of historical, descriptive and documentary research design based on qualitative research method. This paper among other things discovers that African traditional belief system has been endangered by the imported religions, for example, Islam and Christianity. There has never been a universality in African traditional belief system due its diversity, and no one single exclusivity in matters of knowledge and truth as one culture can no longer speak and others should just listen and not raise their voices. Imported religions have their own origin and this origin cannot be replaced for the belief inherent in the indigenous African traditional systems. In this case, the paper then recommends the need to free our mind from these imported religions in order to preserve our original traditional heritage as a continent, even in this neo-colonial imperialistic state.