RELIGION AND COLONIAL INFLUENCE IN AFRICA FAITH VS FOREIGN CONTROL SYSTEMSAfrica did not lose its soul because it lacked faith.Africa lost direction because its faith was hijacked.Before colonization, Africans believed in God, morality, community, and responsibility. Spirituality guided life; it was never a tool of domination. Then foreign powers arrived not only with guns and chains, but with systems. Religion was repackaged and deployed to weaken resistance while foreign control tightened its grip.They told us to look to heaven while our land was stolen.They preached obedience, not justice.They spoke of peace while practicing exploitation.Let me be clear faith is not the enemy.What I challenge is religion used as a foreign control system to silence Africans, discourage resistance, and make oppression feel like destiny.Today, millions of Africans pray sincerely, yet remain economically enslaved. Our churches and mosques are full, but our mines, banks, currencies, and policies are controlled from outside. That contradiction should wake us up.True faith does not enslave.True faith empowers.True faith defends dignity, justice, and freedom.Any belief system that teaches Africans to accept poverty, corruption, and foreign domination as “God’s will” has been weaponized. That is not spirituality that is colonial programming dressed in religious garments.Pan-Africanism is not against God.It is against domination.It is against mental slavery.It is against systems that keep Africa kneeling while others profit.Africa must reclaim faith without foreign chains faith that builds industries, not dependency; faith that produces thinkers, not blind followers; faith that stands with liberation and self-determination.The future of Africa begins with consciousness knowing the difference between belief and control.