History

This past week I've been working my way through "A History of Postwar
Africa" by John Hatch. It is a real eye opener. There is so much history
that I was never taught and it boils my blood to see how poorly people,
God's children, have been treated over the past 60 years. What makes it
worse is that this story is not told. Racism always seemed to be treated as
something from the past in school, something that is long gone. But it was
not so long ago in America and in Africa and around the world that the idea
of racial superiority was national law. An entire section of the book looks
at the Afrikaner ideology in forming South Africa. It breaks my heart to
read about the innumerable injustices white men thrust upon Africans.

The question that I am left with is, where is this going on
today? It seems impossible that people didn't speak out about what was
going on during apartheid, but apartheid stood for 40 years. What
injustices are going on today that we ignore or close our eyes to? Do we
need to repent to our African brothers and sisters for what whites have done
to them? How do we make sure that people hear the story of what happened in
Africa, instead of Africa being the great dark continent? And here I am, in
Kenya, what can I do to repent, to reconcile, and to rebuild over the rubble
of hatred and racism that lived in this land?