16/07/2025
🚨 Let’s Talk Facts: Cannibalism Didn’t Start in Africa It Came from the Abrahamic Texts! 🚨
Tired of the false narratives? So are we. Here's the truth 👇🏾
🔍 Yorubaland has ZERO history of cannibalism or eating of dead bodies...
That myth was pushed by colonizers and missionaries to portray African traditions as "savage" while their own religious texts describe cannibalism in detail.
📖 In the Bible:
• Leviticus 26:29 : “You shall eat the flesh of your sons and daughters.”
• 2 Kings 6:28–29 : A woman tells how she boiled and ate her son during a siege.
• Lamentations 4:10 : “Compassionate women have cooked their own children…”
These are not African traditions they’re from Israelite history, recorded in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), part of Christian and Jewish scriptures.
🕋 In Islam:
• Qur’an 16:115 allows eating the dead in cases of extreme necessity.
• Sahih Muslim, Book 22, No. 4849 and other Hadiths discuss emergency survival situations, not Yoruba priests, not African ancestors.
• Some classical Islamic jurists, like in Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn by Imam Nawawī (Shāfiʿī school), even debated if it was permissible in war to kill and eat a non-Muslim enemy in extreme necessity.
🔮 In Yoruba Ifá:
• Irete Meji, Chapter 1 makes it clear:
Human sacrifice, cannibalism, and use of human parts are strictly forbidden.
It tells how Orunmila officially banned and forbid these practices:
“From that day on… no human being would be offered as sacrifice.”
💥 Let’s set the record straight:
✅ Cannibalism is documented in Abrahamic religious texts
❌ It is not part of Yoruba spirituality, culture, or history
🤔 So why is Africa always accused?
It’s time to stop the double standards and call out the religious and colonial gaslighting.
Don’t let others project their histories onto our civilizations.
📢 Share this. Educate. Reclaim the truth.
