{UAH} Infidel or Paganus? The Polysemy of kafara in the Quran

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344398842_Infidel_or_Paganus_The_Polysemy_of_kafara_in_the_Quran 

Here is the thingi, Baboons.

I reckon that these days the word infidel is used more than pagan but the two have a very thin wall by definitions separating them. Pagan seemed to have died after Christianity conquered Africa where all natives were condemned in advance as Pagans and designed to Hellfire if they didn't convert to Christianity

Methinks native conversions to Christianity wasn't even a bit to do with the faith but the whiteman's outfit and mysteries of a sound blast that could bring down a bull - the gun, that is. Whiteman wore clothes - and he had dayiuum many of them. He also wore some transparent thingi on the eyes that convinced the African it was by them that the witeman could see his god  whereas the Africans; were Trees, Caves, Rivers whose segment within a population could be earmarked as god while downstream its just a river, and a zillion more.

DId you know in Acholi all mysterious and unknown diseases are called Lubanga? Unfortunately, Lubanga is also the word for God. Either way the word serves the same purpose as in modern times when some diseases are named after the persons who discovered them or one who was first diagnosed with them, eg Perkinson's was named after James Parkinson, Fabry disease – Johannes Fabry, Fanconi anemia – Guido Fanconi, Alzheimer's - Dr Aloysius Alzheimer, etc

Ok, my ever good uncle, Google says the word Infidel originally denoted a person of a religion other than one's own, especially a Christian to a Muslim, a Muslim to a Christian, or a gentile to a Jew. Muslims have taken this word as their own and effectively used the word to behead nonMuslims but whiteman once used the same word which is Kafir in Arabic though soft handedly. I remember Lakamfiri used in Acholi to identify the non baptized.

Uncle G also says a Pagan is a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions. Thats where majority africans belong, with many double dipping, or rather, multitasking with practicing both mainstream and African religions.

I learnt something rather strange in my brief stint living with Muslim Arab north Africans in Sudan and Egypt. They too, practice witchcraft but their witchcraft doesn't involve talking to spirit or drumming the hell out of the devil or even doing dombolo - dancing.

The most welcome cons in the Arab world are Palm Readers. Try being one and watch your bank account explode with mulla, aka cash.

I came across a tent in the almighty very busy Tahir Square with handwritten name Dr. Xxx, Astrologer, Palm Reader, Wealth Creator, etc and holie Jesus Mohammad...! the queue to this tent snaked all over the square like a labyrinth but guess what! What shocked me after curiosity overpowered me was knowing the acclaimed doctor inside the tent and to my surprise he was a Baboon. It was a pure Baboon who had pitched this colourful tent.

Tahir Square life begins in the evening running through the night so I too decided to pitch my invisible tent for the purpose of meeting the due inside for a possible story in my newspaper. Arounf 10pm he took a break for fresh air and small baboon leaped to say hello to the doctor.

He too was surprised at seeing a rarity in the Square since almost everyone was Egyptian so it was easy picking a conversation with him. First question he asked, where are you from? Uganda, I replied. You? I asked, Kenya, he answered. What's your name, he asked. Gwokto, I answered. Luo, he asked. Yes, I answered. And then the punch, I am also Luo from Kisumu

Wonders never cease. Within a few month of landing in Montreal I went for a Kenya students house party. You wont believe I met a Kenya muJaluo girl with the doctors name. Told her I met an Palm Reader in Egypt by the same name. Calmly she said, you met my father. If you are good a math then the answer to 1+1=1 that followed a few weeks after this meet is correct.

But go to Egypt wearing goatskin, bones of all types for necklaces juggling loud gourds and watch the mob  descend on you poor soul with lethal weapons. To them that's the ultimate witchcraft deserving instant mob justice

Your bonny ass dead.

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