HOW HAS RELIGION HELPED AFRICA??

Show me a continent, a nation/people, or a person who have abandoned their originality and progressed... NONE! ZERO! NADA! NO ONE!

Real progress wakes up in the bed of originality. Nobody can dispute this. When a person or people picks up what is not theirs, they spend a great amount of energy and resources defending it rather than living in peace just being it.

Whether it is believed or not, accepted or not,  one of the major problems we have in AFRICA, is that we abandoned our indigenous spirituality (I choose not to call it religion because, across almost all the languages of African origin, there is not a native word for RELIGION) and chase after other people's own. In so doing, we abandoned the real issues of development and are faced with defending religion.

The likes of INDIA and CHINA, in short, the Asian continent are advancing well because they stuck to their religions and tackled other pressing issues when the same people who brought us religion left them.
They learned their technology and rejected their religion because the latter is more important to them. The results are thus obvious world over such that the colonial masters now go to them (in most cases).

For one, if religion is even the basis of progress, with the amount of religious houses and level of religious beliefs in the foreign religions present in Africa, there should have been some form of development.

In Nigeria today, you cannot have a president whose religious belief is not brought to the fore even beyond and above his competence.
Or have any developments in any area without religion coming to play.

I wonder how people can preach to others to stop copying the west, individually in their social lifestyles and then stay stuck copying their religious lifestyle. Is that to say originality works in certain areas and don't work in others?

Africa must wake up!