The heroic story of the African woman known as Kimpa Vita (a.k.a. Donna Beatrice) is an exciting example. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Vita advocated for a more spirited and emotional expression of faith in the face of the cold, formal, and legalistic Roman Catholic Church in the Congo. Kimpa led a protest movement against the imposed Christianity that coupled the Christian faith with whiteness and white supremacy. She preached that Africans should do away with the White Jesus presented by Catholic missionaries in favor of a Black Christ who sided with Africans through his
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