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Indigenous Jesus

These paintings were produced in a collaboration between Mafa Christians in northern Cameroon and French missionaries. 

The paintings that resulted from this partnership were western in style but depicted the Mafa and their environment accurately so that the Mafa could identify with the biblical stories being portrayed. 

Vie de Jesus Mafa

Si les occidentaux représentent Jesus et ses apotres avec le teint blanc et les yeux bleus, les africains doivent le représenter avec le teint noir et les yeux marrons. Comme ca au moins la colonisation et domination raciale ne va pas continuer jusqu´au ciel. Le noir n´a pas besoin de passer par le blanc pour aller au ciel puisque c´est le noir que dieu a crée en premiere position (Le premier homme est scientifiquement noir). Si la science a prouvé que le premier homme est apparu en Afrique, dieu qui a crée l´homme doit l´avoir crée noir. Adam ne peut avoir été que noir logiquement. La colonisation spirituelle est celle qui cause les plus gros dégâts dans l´esprit des africains.On peut croire en jesus et aller au ciel sans passer par le blanc.

Vie de Jesus Mafa

Vie de Jesus Mafa (Life of Jesus Mafa) was an initiative undertaken in the 1970s to help teach the gospel in Northern Cameroon.

French Catholic missionary François Vidil worked with Mafa Christian communities in Cameroon to create an enormous catalogue of paintings depicting the life of Jesus as an African man. The plan was to build a resource that would help Mafa people to teach from the bible in a way that connects with their community.

The Life of Jesus Mafa took a long time to produce. Vidil formed a team of local church leaders, theologians and a carefully selected artist. The team would spend time in Mafa communities, reading bible passages and getting people to reenact them. Vidil and his team would photograph their reenactments as the artist sketched sketched them. These sketches and photographs became the basis of the final paintings in this collection. What an amazing way to produce art for the sake of mission!

The collection includes more than 70 scenes, which covers pretty much every story from all four Gospels.

Thinking Anew – Pride and self-destruction

 

The movie

The Life of Jesus Mafa - A set of African illustrations of the Gospel

 

Mafa language