According to King Afonso, the many benefits that came from the Portuguese presence became overshadowed as the people and the economy began to suffer. The west brought over many diseases that reached Afonso’s people. In order to fix the problem, he wrote a letters to the king of Portugal. In one of his many letters, he asked for proper medication to treat the illnesses. But the diseases brought many to believe that God was not helpful or necessary to their health. Once being cured with other things that don’t involve the Lord, the people stopped having faith in him all together. After the negative effect on his people, and all the dying due to believing in God, most of them converted back to their initial religion, animism. In one of his letters,
