TAMPERED NATURE

TAMPERED WITH NATURE

THE AGONY OF MENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL IMPRISONMENT

AUTHOR & PRODUCER: NII NAI -TETE. THIS IS A LECTURING ARTICLE. UPDATED AUGUST 2008

CHAPTER-1

THE PRE-JUDGMENT MISSION TO AFRICA

THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN MISSIONARIES IN GHANA.

The following actual report of missionaries from Europe on a mission to Ghana, shows how nature was tampered with. While most of the European missionaries died within a short time of their mission, a few of them were treated and healed by the same people whom the missionaries called "Heathens"......

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana, as it is today, is the work of both the Basel Missionary Society of Basel, Switzerland, and the Scottish Missionary Society of Scotland.

It was on the 18th December, 1825, that the first four missionaries of the Basel Missionary Society landed at Osu, the then so-called Christiansborg, Osu, a sub-nation of the Ga-Adangbe nation. At this time (Osu) Christiansborg was the headquarters of the danish possessions of the Gold Coast (Ghana). They negotiated with the authorities of Basel Mission to start the Mission work in Ghana. Anyway the Danes had started it on a small scale at the coast, that is Christiansborg. The head of the Synod is the Moderator. The four missionaries were:

The brethren offered themselves to continue the work. They arrived in March, 1832. They were:

Dr. Frederick Heinze was a medical doctor but the fever proved stronger than his skill. He died after six weeks of his arrival. Peter Peterson Jager died shortly after Dr. Heinze, Leaving Andreas Riis, he nearly died in September, 1832 but was saved by a native doctor.

He was kept at the coast as a Danish Chaplain for three years against his will. He wished to penetrate into the interior. In 1835, a Danish Chaplain took charge of the fort congregation, thus giving him chance to penetrate.

The air there was good for him, cool. It helped him to recover quickly from the intermitted fever attacks. He recieved a friendly welcome from the people and their Chief Nana Addo Dankwa I. He settled permanently at Akropong. He put up a building in the native style and so was called OSIADAN.

Mr. Riis' activities encouraged the home Mission Board at Basel. Two others were sent to help:

They arrived in 1836. They came with a lady Miss M. Anna Wolters, the future wife of Andreas Riis. Unfortunately, about eleven months after their arrival the two men died leaving only Mr. Riis and his wife.

The committee of the Basel Mission had to decide whether to continue with the work in the Gold Coast or not.

Twelve years had now elapsed since the first missionaries arrived but eight out of the nine missionaries had died. No fruit of the work was yet seen, because not a single heathen had been baptised. ( Note: Due to the ignorant minds of the missionaries, they classified all Nubians (Africans) then and non- christians now, as HEATHENS.)

Before Mr. Riis went home, he visited Kumasi. The prospects for mission work in Ashanti were not inviting. At this time, the Wesley Methodists were preparing to open a mission there. After this unsuccessful visit to Ashanti, he went back to Basel.

When Riis was leaving Akropong, the chief and his elders bade him farewell. The people felt his departure from among them. Nana Addo Dankwa I addressed him through his linguist as: "When god created the world, he made book for the white man, and fetish or juju for the black man, but if you could show us some black man who could read the white man's book then we would surely follow".

When Riis reached Europe, he was interviewed by their committee about the mission work. The Basel Mission Society had to continue the work or to stop. Inspector Rev. Hoffmann (Head of the Committee in Basel) brought a new plan. The plan was to bring some of the negro christians from West Indies to Akropong to settle there as colonists.

So the committee asked the conference of the Moravian Bretheren for help. Mr. Riis and J.G. Widman (the newly appointed fellow labourer) went to Jamaicada (Jamaica), in West Indies. Twenty-four Christian Negroes were willing to devote themselves to the service of the lord in West Africa; (they included six married men with their wives and children). They settled at Akropong. A school was soon opened at Akropong with the children of the West Indians as the first pupils. They were instructed in English. Later some of the chiefs and the principal men brought their children to be educated. Sixteen years now and not a single convert.

The total Basel missionaries who lost their lives during the planting of christianity in the Gold Coast were one hundred and forty one. Ninety-six missionaries and forty-five lady missionaries are indelible in the history of the church. We are grateful to God.

Akropong now became the center from which the light of the gospel radiated. With the training that the Training college provided, young men were prepared for the work of evangelisation. New head stations were created one after another as the opportunity arose.

The revolt of the coastal towns as the result of a pool tax, brought about the scattering of the temporary shifting of the headquarters to Abokobi. The importance of Christiansborg was soon restored and had credit of the reputation for being the centre of all initial Ga literary work connected with the church, including the translation of the Bible.

The preaching of gospel in Ashanti was not started until in 1896, 88 years after the first missionaries had arrived. Several attempts had been made without success. In 1896 the Gold Coast Government annexed Ashanti and deported King Prempeh I. The gate was suddenly opened for missionary work. Rev. Ramseyer who had been a prisoner there was honored to go. The living tribute to his work is the present Kumasi Church which bears his name. (Ramseyer Presbyterian Church, Adum Kumasi).

The fact that Presbyterians are not Methodists, Catholics or Baptists is a matter of circumstances and history. The Presbyterian Church;

(2) Has maintained teaching and promulgating of the great facts of the faith once delivered to the saints.

(3) Takes the scripture of both the old Testament and new Testament as inspired word of God.

(4) Takes the scripture, as the supreme rule of faith and practice containing all things necessary for salvation and the holy spirit is its interpreter.

The natural laws of nature and its practices have been unquestionable, and have proved to be successful among the "GA-ADANGBE" Nation and its relative Nubian nations.

The Human Anatomy's biological functions were studied by the Ga-Adangbes and their sister nations within the equatorial and the rain forest regions and they naturally practiced it as their daily life style. This practices, they preserved within their spiritual mental faculties in their existence and passed on the same practices to their generation.

The natural mineral drinking well waters of the Ga-Adangbe sub-nations of Ga-Mashie, Osu, La, Teshie, Nungua and Tema etc. were the earliest natural waters to be contaminated with supposed to be water treatment chemical named "Milton" by the Europeans, before I was born. However, my uncles, aunts, grandmother and great-grand mother who lived in Ada and its regional areas, including the people of that area , drank, cooked and bathed with their natural mineral well-water, boiled or un-boiled as part of their natural life style before and after the waters were contaminated by "Milton" in the Ga areas as mentioned above. Despite this they were not plagued by debilitating illnesses such as AIDS, HIV-positive, small or chicken pox and sickle cell anemia.

It is true that the Ada and Ewe regional people do get sick with malaria but NOT to epidemic levels. Statistically,when at the age of 3 to 5 years old this malaria may occur in a person once and may be repeated once within 10 to 15 years after, or may never occur again in that person through his or her entire life. Basically malaria sickness within the West Africans is healed by mainly neem medicine and other herbal medicine within a week and a half, without imported form of penicillin or quinine, such as nivaquine, malarex, mepacrine, camoquine or any other form of synthetic quinine being administered.

As a specimen of the La-Asafo sub-nation of the Ga-Adangbe nation, it was a blessing whenever I visited my mother's home town Ada and its territories. Some of the visits that lasted more than a month welcomed me with a malaria fever, as a result of my natural immune system having been lowered by drinking "milton" water while living in the city and its territories. Within a week of my stay in Ada, the malaria fever would be gone after local medicinal treatment, following which I would be back living among and within my natural biological laws of nature and its natural practices. I do not recollect witnessing any malaria illness while living with my Ada relatives. Rather it seemed I witnessed the excellent natural biological functioning of the human anatomy being preserved and practiced as a way of life.

At the age of 4 to 5 years old, I remember being sick with a cold - this event sticks out poignantly in my mind - because my grand Aunt "Otuko" sucked the mucus out of my nose with her mouth, 2 or 3 times a day. Within three days the fever and cold were gone and I remember feeling distinctly better. As observed, this incident between my grand Aunt "Otuko" and I did not infect her with a cold, instead (as a child) she appeared to me to be a human hospital, equipped with the full biological defense system, not broken down or tampered by foreign substances. She was one of many such human hospitals in the non-milton, non-quinine environment of the Ada area. At 90 years she was still healthy and active, walking 3-4 miles a week to do her grocery shopping at a local market. On occasion during visits to her children in Accra she would drink "milton' contaminated water in La and Osu territories. One day when she was about 95 years old she fell and broke her hip. This fall is what eventually led to her death at close to 100 years old.

In the same vein as my grand Aunt "Otuko" of Ada , an Aunt of mine, "Atswei-Adoma" Tete (Tetteh) likewise lived until she was 104 years old and by the time she died she still had all her 32 teeth, intact without cavities. My Aunt "Atswei-Adoma" was introduced to the milton contaminated water in the La-Asafo sub-nation of the "Ga-Adangbes" when she was approximately 50 years old. Although her natural immune biological defense system had been subjected to and been at war with milton and quinine, she lived to be 104 years old. I venture to say she would probably have lived longer had she not embraced the drinking of milton-contaminated water and quinine.

You can imagine that 50 years of imbibing milton-contaminated water and medicinal quinine weakened the natural biological immune defense system, resulting in the introduction of many new and foreign diseases to the Ga-Adangbe people.

The Decency of Ethics can best be found within the cultured African Families, this Ancient Ancestral Nubians Legacy existed among the Ga-Adangbes before the missionaries arrived in Ghana. This system has existed within their biological and spiritual format and is among many of their Spiritual Doctrines, which functions under the Decency of Ethics as their legacy. As an active Anciently formatted system of the Ga-Adangbes, each "Whe" (House) is a Court House, a Marital Ceremony House, Sanctification Ceremony House (the so-called outdooring ceremony), Funeral House (a portion within the house) and a House of yearly Atonement festival ceremony "Homowo Festival".

There are various Houses known as "Whe" within each Clan known as "Akutso" which linguistically means "Body House" or "Spiritual Body" and many of the Clans make a sub-Nation. On the spiritual level, since the subjects (Descendants) of that "Whe" (House) already have spiritual contracts with their Ancestors through birthrights, their spiritual attention is drawn easily on a mutual basis to compromise the reason..........., this is always based on Decency of Ethics.

Due to the Decency of Ethics, the Nubians now called Africans, live in an environment of life perfect creation, in which one must be perfect to function normally in that environment through nature's course without synthetic medication, food or alien moral obligations. "AFRICA IS A LIVING PLACE OF NATUARAL MENTALITY AND NATURAL BIOLOGICAL TESTING GROUND, THE RESULTS OF WHICH WILL PROVE THE PERSON OR PERSONS AS BEING TOTALLY WHOLE OR WOEFULLY DEFICIENT". A person with a poor or no biological immune defense system who travels to Africa without medication will be severely sick toward death. This sad situation happened to one- hundred and forty- one European missionaries then, until they brought synthetic penicillin and quinine etc, to use for themselves and UNFORTUNATELY for the Africans (Nubians) who never needed synthetic penicillin and quinine etc, because they (Africans) know the type of medications that works for their blood.

Through this, a new era of diseases was born- the persons who introduced those medications then were not intelligent enough to know the outcome of what they were doing or were they doing that intentionally?. A person who lives in Africa absorbing synthetic medicine shows signs of rejecting that synthetic medication, not only do they itch all over but damage their natural immune defense biological system, have Kidney problems, Liver problems, Eye and Ear infections coupled with Gynecological problems ( experimental family planning medications and inserts )etc, creating a potential of acquiring new or foreign sicknesses.

When a person's Blood cells are tampered with it affects his mental faculty to a state of tameness. When that happens to a person or persons, their natural moral sense of judgment become questionable. The African not tampered with can naturally survive in any climate and can solve any difficult problem, they have always been healthy and have always had strong immune defense systems until............... . Nature will want to be left alone, not to be tampered with.

CHAPTER-3

"A CRY FROM THE UMBILICAL CORD"

ONE OF THE EUROPEAN SUCCESS STORIES

To begin this article, I will tell a story about a very close male friend of mine and myself. Our lives begun in an identical way but that was about it… Both born in the 1950s, our fathers were both dentists from the Ga region of Ghana and mothers from the Ada region. The late 1940s and early 1950s in Ghana was a period of African pride/self-worth/awakening and those born in that period were often given authentic African names. My friend, born in the early 50s, has a very authentic African name as do my older brothers born around the same time. Oh, lest I forget both our fathers owned big American cars (his, a Chevrolet and mine, a Dodge) in the 1960s. This is about where the similarity ends. Having said this, our paths never crossed in Ghana but in another country, here in the USA.

By the time I was born in the late 50s things had tempered down a bit and I was given a Caucasian first name. Incidentally, my last name is Caucasian and must have been adopted many decades if not centuries, before my time so my first and last names are both Caucasian. Without my middle name, I would be mistaken for a Caucasian if one only went by my first and last names. Indeed, if you type my name in the search engine on the web, it comes up with pictures of Caucasians.

Fortunately for my friend, his father lived in his own indigenous surroundings and therefore, he learned right from the start deep things about our culture. He grew up attending church and was taught about Jesus. However, his father ensured that he knew about African traditions, often taking him to visit their local spiritualist. Today, he has an insatiable thirst for his own culture.

On the other hand, my father lived in the European sector of town so I grew up among Europeans knowing very little about my own indigenous culture. Our neighbors were Caucasians, therefore, so were my friends. Dr. Hawe, our family doctor, was also Caucasian. The primary school I attended was an international church school so I learned only about Jesus but nothing about our traditional African beliefs. Some of my colleagues at school were also Caucasian. Many of my teachers and school principals throughout my education, from primary and secondary school through College were white expatriates, mainly from England and America. Though I lived in Africa I had more of an anglicized intonation and when I visited England years later, many British were surprised that I had never lived in England. Such was the great influence of colonization.

After graduation from college, I worked with an examining body and one of the things that stuck most in my memory was the distinct attempt to make the secondary school entrance examination less foreign and more suited to the African. For instance, some of the questions children could be asked in the examination would be what the four seasons of the year were or about snow. Some examiners felt, and rightly so, that it was not fair to the African child who had only two seasons a year (dry and rainy seasons) and had never seen or experienced snow. In fact, another friend of mine tells about his uncle, who before ever visiting England, could actually recite the names of rooms in one of the castles in England and knew how most things were arranged in that castle.

It was while in sixth form in the area where my friend lived that I first realized how woefully lacking I was in my own Ga language and during the two years I spent in that school some of my Ga was straightened. However, when I met my friend I realized how much more I needed to learn about my own customs, traditions, and language.

First of all I translate everything the other way round – from English to Ga and quite often the words are not appropriate. Secondly, I can only count confidently up to six in Ga – don’t get me wrong I know the words up to ten but mix the numbers between seven and ten. Quite truthfully, it was only on a recent trip to England that I saw a video teaching children about greetings for various times of the day in Ga that I learnt that we had such greetings. To me it was always, "Good morning, afternoon, or evening" as the case may be.

We have such unique ways of welcoming people to our homes and making them feel welcome. On recent trips to Ghana, it was heart-warming and endearing to see how my family (aunts, cousins etc.) welcomed me. It wasn’t just a hug and words of how they had missed you but actual sequences of words and actions – such a joy to know you belonged to people who cared, honored and still remembered you after years of being away.

Even for those who see each other frequently, there are traditions and customs to follow when guests/visitors arrive in one’s home. Particular greetings, giving water to refresh the person, to honor the ancestors etc. and these are things that I am not familiar with and need to learn. Yet, I grew up in Ghana, lived and worked there for the first score and 16 years of my life. This is a total contrast to my friend who relocated to the States at a much younger age than myself but yet is deeply steeped in our customs and traditions because he lived among his own people, in addition to which he lacks nothing in the ways of the Caucasians.

Don’t get me wrong, I can hold my own in the English language sometimes to the chagrin of people who think I should know less but forget that they brought their system to us in our own country. When I talk about the big American car my father owned or about servants and the comforts of life in Africa, they look at me in disbelief. I learnt good table manners and you dare not make a squeak with your cutlery when you are eating. In my brothers’ homes (notice not mine) you have to serve each beverage with the appropriate glass. Certainly, I would be obliged to dine with the Queen of England and know to start eating with cutlery from the outside working my way towards the plate with each course. My clothes match my shoes and coloring etc. I could go on forever enumerating what I learnt from being colonized by Europeans but there is the downside… that which I do not know about my own people, my own blood, my own tongue my own culture and traditions.

So you see, where my friend is enriched by our culture even though we have similar backgrounds, I am woefully lacking and need to educate myself to become whole, the complete authentic African and while I am at it, I might as well find out what my real last name should be….

CHAPTER-4

THE INTRUSION OF NATURE LAWS

THE ABUSE OF THE NATURAL CHRONOLOGY OF THE RIVERS

The Laws of Nature have no alphabets, yet their Faculty is the Brain of a Living Thing. They are laws that we were born with and we witness their functions through Nature’s Causes, their Justifications lies between Right doings and Wrong doings. " NII-ABEKA NAI-TETE".

In reference to the above statement, which can be practiced the easier way or the hard way, yet it was taken advantage of, because most humans couldn't identify Mother Nature’s opposition to our doings. Before spilling these words of mine, which one may understand as " The Accused Judgment to Humanity " let me expose an old proverb of the Ga-Adangbes in the Ga language: " Tshatsu kee ebaa sa shuor, ni shuor kee tshatsu ake; Dzee esaa le dzi sane le, shi mon saa le see sane ni baafu le tshatsu le mon dzi sane le ". In the English translation: Ant told elephant that he would give him an enema and the elephant told the ant that, performing the enema on him was not the problem, rather the problem would be the result of the enema which would bury the ant was what he (the elephant) was worried about. In simple form, "One should think of the result of an action before it takes place" or " Think before you act".

The residents along the banks of the Nile rivers, Zambezi rivers, Congo rivers, Niger rivers and the Shwilao rivers (now known as the Volta river), traveled on these rivers by local cargo and passenger canoes, to and from their market places and their farms to transport goods to their destinations. In most cases, they traveled on the rivers to relative towns, cities and to other countries near and far. These rivers were once major trading routes among nations.

"LOCAL WOMEN ON RIVER TRADING ROUTE, ARE ABOUT TO TRAVEL SHORT OR LONG DISTANCES TO A MAIN REGIONAL MARKET"

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Before the intrusion of the rivers by hydroelectric dams, the economy status of the residents along the riverbanks as well as those residents who did not live on the riverbanks, including the countries they lived in, was reasonable. Though they were in good health then without any new diseases, there was never an epidemic with their old and few rare diseases. However, any sicknesses or disease among them then was familiar to them and was treated naturally with natural herbal treatment and the non-chemically contaminated food they ate.

In essence they were fully in control and aware of their functions within the environment they lived in. Their education was and is solely based on decency of ethics, nature studies, spiritual studies, art and craft, agriculture, medicine and its treatment, laws and regulations, royal responsibilities, fishing, child bearing and social activities, etc.

Ironically the newly introduced regimes imposed upon them did not allow water to find its own level. These regimes were engaged in modern technology, thinking they would be left behind by other worlds, while in actual fact the Nubians (Africans) had never been left behind, rather they were always ahead of modern technology through mother nature. This new era of new regimes succeeded in hydroelectric water projects (dams), which kept them instead, far away from the nature that they were known to be closer to than any human species. This resulted in a partial divorce between Nature and the Africans.

Confusion and chaos jumped on board. (1) The yearly cycle of the rivers rises, which recedes for planting and harvesting of crops was broken by the hydroelectric projects. The natural chronology of the rivers has been abused. This severely reduced commercial agriculture due to long-term dry land, which also resulted in lack of food for humans and animals. While commercial fishing was also in jeopardy, the birds which fly and relocate seasonally were also affected.

Famine was born, while some of the river tributaries became lifeless and swampy producing more mosquitoes and parasites. Epidemic of sicknesses rose, coupled with death, broken hearts, broken marriages, crimes, bribery and corruption. These became their partial life style and the adamant of massive economic instability was stationed.

Due to these unfortunate situations, over 50% (fifty percent) of future generations of each city or towns along the river banks and other non-river bank residents headed to the capital city and its districts. This quadrupled the population of the city and its regional areas resulting in a worse situation with more sicknesses, higher unemployment with no unemployment compensation system in place. Therefore, National leadership became questionable and coup-d'etats were introduced. I will sadly say that Africa will always be a failure if the leader of the African is under the influence of another country’s system. Until the African is African minded, the African will always....................................

Again, “Ant told elephant that he would give him an enema and the elephant told the ant that, performing the enema on him was not the problem, rather the problem would be the result of the enema which would bury the ant was what he (the elephant) was worried about”. In this proverb, could the “Ant” be representing the humans and the elephant be representing “Mother Nature”.


AUTHOR : NII NAI-TETE.	Asafoatse@hotmail.com