Nigerian filmmaker, Austin Faani asserts that religion has done more harm than good in Africa.
This was spoken by Faani as he discussed some of the sacrifices he had to make because his wife had a mental illness.
Speaking at the Chacha-owned Meticulous People organisation Outreach, an organisation that addresses mental illness, Faani described how a preacher tricked him into doing goat sacrifices in an effort to heal his wife.
He said: “I’m a very religious person but I believe religion has done more harm to Africans than anything else.
“In November 2012, I took her to a church because I told the pastor that my father-in-law killed a lot of cows for her, he said I should kill something for her. So I ran to Abraka market and bought a big goat for her but at the end of the day, the same thing kept happening to her.”
