Revered author Motsedi Mojalefa Maja’s latest book offering is nothing but a page turner and thought-provoking as well.
Titled Religious Bait: The World Under Siege, Maja’s book contends that an urgent spiritual awakening through African indigenous knowledge systems, Sankofa and Ubuntu, need to be internalised by rewriting history and practising Africans’ ancestral ways, such as Kemetic spirituality.
The book asserts that it is significant for the African diaspora to comprehend how the man-made religions have affected the spirituality and caused social and mental damage to the diasporas.
“Religious Bait: The World Under Siege is a collection of thoughts that discovers the impact of religion in the world, particularly providing evidence from the religious conflicts and tensions that took place after the arrival of the European nations, along with missionaries and dogmas that did not resonate with African spirituality. It sheds light on how organisational and religious violence, wars and racism has affected the vulnerable and defenceless black communities, in the entire world,” said Maja.
He is a social activist, humanist, feminist, philanthropist and freethinker.
Maja is a graduate of Vaal University of Technology and holds degrees in logistics and business administration. He is a Bantu unwaged conceptualist and successful author.
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His previous book, Face Off, reached corners of Africa, including Gabon and Zimbabwe.
“The popular belief that religion is the cause of the world’s bloodiest conflicts is central to our modern conviction that faith and politics should never merge. As we observe the Islamic states rampaging through the Middle East and West Africa, tearing apart the modern nation’s states established by Western colonists, it may be problematic and challenging for the world to comprehend the causes of wars and their impacts.
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“Today, everyone knows that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence and wars. The abandoning of spirituality has given religious organisations a room to practise their beliefs that dismantle the social fabrics of the world.
It is somewhat trite, but nonetheless sadly true, to say that more wars have been waged, more people are killed, fraudsters and con artists enjoy the religious bazaar, and religious perpetrators go away with violence committed, and these days more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than any other institutional force in human history,” he said.
