The Ancestors Accept Libation – Even in Foreign Lands
A moving theological and personal reflection on African libation, ancestral memory, and the language of spiritual offering from an Igbo childhood to Algonquin territory.
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Nigerian missionary oblate, doctoral student, theologian, research assistant, and part-time professor at Saint Paul University in Ottawa.
With over eight years of missionary experience among the Innu First Nation in Quebec, he explores how Indigenous wisdom, postcolonial identity, and storytelling can renew theology and mission. His work seeks to listen deeply to the Echoes of the Spirit from the Forest and in “all our relations.”
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A moving theological and personal reflection on African libation, ancestral memory, and the language of spiritual offering from an Igbo childhood to Algonquin territory.
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