Annual Debate 2018

Don Bosco College, Moshi, Tanzania hosted the 2018 Annual Debate with the motion -

" Modern Technology is the Arche of Moral Decadence in Africa." 

In this 14" clip, Adrian Matebesi makes a case for the motion. Take a look!


 

The views expressed in this presentation do not represent

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The Art Of Making a Choice And Existential Guilt

CHOICES

     I intend to write about the gift of making a choice. Indeed,  it takes some time and often a lot of courage, and wisdom and freedom - to come to know what one really wants. The choice is made difficult not by the fact that one of the options is an evil or less in perfection but by the beauty and perfection of both. In other words, choice is an art.

“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.” 

Anonymous

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Does God Limit My freedom?

BREATHING FREELY UNDER WATER

It can generally be agreed upon that the extent and immensity of human knowledge has surpassed and exceeded the wildest of our expectations. 

In Greek mythology, such a state of affairs never went unnoticed and unpunished by the gods. The fate of Pandora, Arachne and Prometheus are clear examples of the deities’ propensity to limit human creativity and knowledge within ‘safe’ boundaries. Indeed, all mythology is loaded with allegory. One mortal who underwent punishment for her intelligence and creativity is Arachne. Arachne, a weaver who challenged the goddess of wisdom and crafts, Athena to a weaving contest. Arachne’s work was far more beautiful. 

Athena out of fury and frustration ripped Arachne's work into pieces, and hit her

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“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Road not taken....

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

(http://classicalpoets.org/10-greatest-poems-ever-written/)

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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

The Caged Bird Sings of Freedom

The free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wings

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and

his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with fearful trill

of the things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill 

for the caged bird

sings of freedom

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Traveller, There Is No Path : Antonio Machado

The path is made by walking.

Everything passes on and everything remains,

But our lot is to pass on,

To go on making paths,

Paths across the sea.

I never sought glory,

Nor to leave my song

In the memory of man;

I love those subtle worlds,

Weightless and graceful,

As bubbles of soap.

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Love and the Resurrection

Can Love Conquer Death?

As seen on the cover, my short article on "Love and the Resurrection"  has featured in this months edition of Writers Space Africa. 

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