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    Home»African Values & Philosophy»The missionaries to our country taught us that disobedience to the government and the settler was a sin

    The missionaries to our country taught us that disobedience to the government and the settler was a sin

    Samora MachelBy Samora Machel
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    The missionaries to our country taught us that disobedience to the government and the settler was a sin, that we must be deeply grateful to Portuguese colonialism since it had brought us the true faith. In the last century, the church defended the criminal slave-trade by saying it was a good thing because it enabled the slaves to be baptized.

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