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Increasing religious intolerance and wreaks its toll on storied custom of northern Nigeria:
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Just watched Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' and was intrigued by the role of liberation theology in South America's recent Bolivarist revolution. With the increasing religiosity across Africa, one could ask, why are we not seeing something similar on the continent? What we have on the other hand is worst form of predatory 'prosperity gospel '. Rachel Strohm posed a question that spoke to this in 2011:
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Founder of the Gene Campaign Suman Sahai, writing in SciDev:
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Heroine, martyr and possible spiritual inspiration for Congo's Kimbangu Christian sect. The extraordinary story of Beatriz Kimpa Vita, and an account of her life in R. Basi's Black Hand of God:
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My Africa Is is a documentary series taking you on a journey across the continent through the eyes of an insider. We know what you've seen and heard about Africa - what they think is happening, what they think she needs, what they think she is. The four things that come to mind when people think of Africa are population, problems, poverty, and promise unfulfilled - headline media reports on the continent but that's not the whole story - website
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Jimmy Kainja indicts those venerating the life of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, its founding dictatorial president:
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Maya Lau reporting in the NYTimes:
"Journal Rappé" -- part music video, part news broadcast delivered entirely in French and Wolof by two Senegalese rappers...Started in mid-April. A musician named Xuman typically begins each show by rhyming in French, offering a version of local and international news that's at once informative and sarcastic. "Good news, smile," he says in the clip above, because sugar and rice are now cheaper. Then he points out that merchants lower prices only once their stock is gone. Another rapper, Keyti, repeats the broadcast in Wolof, a local language that often functions as the country's lingua franca...[continue reading]
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This will not come as a surprise to readers of this blog, with few exceptions Universities in Africa are churning out entitled drones. A number of commentators over the years have arrived at similar conclusions. One wonders why we need a Loughborough University project to state the obvious? From the report:
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