The Value of Being Yourself

Accept my sincerest apologies if this post will have the sort of terminology which is quite unfamiliar and technical. Nevertheless, words are words! This is a reflection I wrote while in college based on the philosophical ideas of the Danish Philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard. ...

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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...

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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...

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A Loving God in an Imperfect World

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL      The human and anthropological problem of suffering and agony is the most unpalatable of the existential challenges that man must face and contend with. The question of the death of young and innocent children, the incurable...

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How to develop a Courageous Character

Courage  In order to live happily and be successful, one must learn which values and traits to hold and how to achieve them. This also demands developing a consistent personality and character. Courage is the ability to conquer the chronic desire to limit options...

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FUEL YOUR PASSION FOR LIFE

         THE PASSIONATE DREAMER         I have been privileged in the last 4 years to have had opportunities to visit a number of African countries; Zimbabwe, Namibia, Kenya and Tanzania (where I have been for almost three...

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Demythologising The African Moral Consciousness

RESHAPING AFRICAN MORALITIES The project of demythologizing is an imperative now more than ever. In the history of thought, demythologizing takes on a particularly special impetus with the philosophers. As a matter of fact, most of us dwell in an age in which an...

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Reshaping Africa's Identity

 THE ILLUSIONS OF TRIBE  (A Quest for a Border-less Culture)    Africa has in ages past been a passive continent that could not define or rather ascertain its own identity in a systematic and methodological manner. Consequently,...

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Vulnerability - A Key to Loving Well

OPENNESS TO LOVE Every deep human experience of love, of trust, of friendship, of sexuality and even of faith demands vulnerability. However, this is seriously risky business; it opens the road to the best possibilities and joys of life but also to the prospect of being...

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Towards A Symphonic Existence With Nature

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS Butterflies The most conventional definition of the term “ecology” is “the interdisciplinary scientific study of the living conditions of entities in interaction with each other and with the surroundings, animate as well as inanimate” (Naess, 1989,...

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