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A Hope Beyond Mere Images
A response to Robert Odero’s “The Memory of Paradise (I)” (Part 1 of 2).
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Adrian Nyiha
The Memory of Paradise (Part II)
Owing to our long sense of Zamani, African societies have something that the modern world has lost and desperately needs: a deep anchorage to the past.
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Robert Odero
[From the Archives] On the Cult of the Ancestors
...and an important announcement!
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Robert Odero
The Memory of Paradise (Part I)
Africa's underdevelopment is related to her notion of time, to which Augustine's notion of time as memoria might serve as a necessary correction.
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Robert Odero
Dataism and Capitalism (IV-B): Capitalism and the Radical Novelty of Trust
Trust rightly conceived completely reverses the hierarchy of what we might call the capitalist pattern of trust.
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Adrian Nyiha
Things Fall Apart: Is this the Verdict for Christianity in Africa?
Is it possible to be both truly African and truly Christian?
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Francis Nyatundo
Dataism and Capitalism (IV-A): Affirming the Reality of the World
What is the trust that is opposed to dataism? It is this: to trust that what we see as real is real, and to actively open ourselves to the reality of…
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Adrian Nyiha
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