While Africa is the continent on which human life began, it is also a continent that has been invaded throughout the history of mankind. Christianity was firmly established in North Africa by the third century CE only to be extinguished when Islam invaded North Africa in the 7th century CE. Once the Portuguese sailed around Africa, the rest of Western Europe followed and Christianity bloomed in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the centuries Christianity and Islam have attempted to convert Africa. However, Africa's own traditional religions have remained ingrained in the culture and in the hearts of...
While Africa is the continent on which human life began, it is also a continent that has been invaded throughout the history of mankind. Christianity ...
If, as they say, we all come out of Africa, then somewhere in Kenya's Rift Valley we first learned to live as human beings and we quickly learned to quarrel, too. Migration patterns within Kenya are as complicated as any in the U.S. or Europe and its multi-ethnic history is much, much longer. Fr. Baraza, knows both the brightness of human progress in a peaceful countryside as well as the shadows left by war and fighting. He writes about how to resolve conflicts and difficulties by people who have had long life experience.
"Drumming Up Dialogue" applies the thinking of three leading...
If, as they say, we all come out of Africa, then somewhere in Kenya's Rift Valley we first learned to live as human beings and we quickly learned t...
