25/05/2026
🌍✨ Happy Africa Day, Africa! — May Your Love Be Restored ✨🌍
History about the "Scramble for Africa": Before colonialism, the Berlin Conference in Germany (1884–1885) where Great Britain, Portugal, France, Germany and King Leopold II of Belgium (himself) without any African leader on the table decided Africa’s future by dividing the continent like a cake, where each colonial power would take its portion of land, minerals and ownership. Yet before this division, many African communities lived through the spirit of Ubuntu — “I am because we are.” Families, tribes and kingdoms shared land, culture, farming, cattle and protection. Poverty, as we know it today, was far less widespread because unity, humanity and community were at the center of life.
Then came the Berlin Conference, where European powers divided Africa among themselves as territories of control and economic ownership, without true African representation. Borders were drawn artificially, separating tribes, families and kingdoms that had lived together for generations. In many ways, these borders became symbols of limitation of African wealth and foreign ownership over African land and resources. This marked the beginning of the gradual loss of African identity, unity and self-determination.
Some regions of Africa even became private property of European rulers, such as the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium (now DRC), Cape Colony (now South Africa), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), British East Africa (Kenya), where forced labor and brutal punishments were widely reported during colonial exploitation.
Long before colonial demarcations existed, African ancestors migrated peacefully across the continent in search of fertile land, rivers and grazing areas for livestock and agriculture. This is why many ancestral tribes are still found across different African countries today:
🪘 The San people in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana
🪘 The Tswana people in Botswana and South Africa
🪘 The Bakongo people in DRC, Congo and Angola
🪘 The Somali people across Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti
Traditional African kingdoms and communities were guided by customs, elders and community laws that promoted respect, unity and harmony long before colonial systems introduced Dutch and Roman-based laws across Africa.
Unfortunately, much of this history is still less taught in schools and rarely discussed deeply in mainstream media. 📚💔
Ubuntu teaches: 🤝 “A person is a person through other people.”
This wisdom is also reflected in the Bible: 📖 Matthew 22:39 —
“Love your neighbour as yourself.”
One day, the Spirit of Ubuntu that guided our ancestors, together with the teachings of Jesus Christ to love our neighbours, shall unite Africa once more. ❤️🌍
🌍🕊️ Happy Africa Day!
One Africa. One People. One Future. ✨
Some references:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/26/colonising-africa-what-happened-at-the-berlin-conference-of-1884-1885
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1D1fpWHqyP/
Yours,
Evariste Umba
Apostle of Jesus Christ
