The Footprints of God in Africa
A Lament for Buhari and a Dying Nigerian Nation
President Buhari died the way he lived: shrouded in mystery, from a sickness he refused to disclose, leaving a nation to speculate. Even in death, he...
Writer
Stan Chu Ilo
Stan Chu Ilo is a senior research professor of world christianity, african studies, and global health at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural theology, DePaul University, and the coordinating servant of the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network.
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Opinion
Ending Aid Dependency: The Catholic Church and Africa’s Path to Dignity
Recently, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), published an essay in The Wall Street Journal titled “Africa...
Editorial
Editorial: Each Generation’s Mission and Africa’s Catholic Calling
Frantz Fanon once wrote, “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” For many African Catholics today, there is...
The Footprints of God in Africa
Witch Hunters or Political Thugs: A Sad Evening in Gasarara, Burundi
What do you call a group that drags neighbors from their homes, stones them, and burns them alive, witch hunters, or political thugs? In Burundi, the...
The Footprints of God in Africa
Pope Leo Must Elevate African Voices in the Roman Church
Pope Leo’s recent appointment of five Africans to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life brought joy and hope to...