Week 9 How Local Divine Powers Were Suppressed: A Case of Mwari of the Shona – Dora R. Mbuwayesango – Sugirtharajah

 This is amazing to witness from this article how European colonialism and Christianity were interwoven with each other to make the Shona to be religiously and politically suppressed to the colonial power and religion. What makes me think deeper is that God, supposed to be kept shrine, seemed used for a wrongful purpose by the colonial mission. But then, can “the God” the natives believed at that time the same God that we believe? I doubt it.