Renae Stahl

“Against exploitation of human and nonhuman life, the Exodus story’s earthly and earthy focus—the rootedness of home in the earth—signifies that political liberation without ecological liberation is not only insufficient but also deficient and ultimately unacceptable.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“Liberation is not just about movement from one place to another, but especially about how Exodus’ multiple movements become mechanisms for bringing liberation to the material and ideological structures of oppression in Egypt, the Wilderness, the Mountain, and beyond. The catalyst for exodus liberation movement (“let my people go”) serves a larger goal: “let my people live” —the hermeneutical and material transition from erased, marginalized, and singularized existence to creative freedom, wholeness, and community that enshrines the full flourishing of the material and interpretive soul/life.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“Fragile systems and ideologies have a way of producing fragile minds and mindsets that rely on marginalizing others. The appropriate response to this reality is ultimately not to switch residential zip codes but to change governing ideology... To shift location from Egypt to Canaan, without changing the underlying social, political, and ideological determinants of marginalization, is to transfer the problem rather than resolve it.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“The political story cannot stand, survive, or be meaningful without the ecological story. Exodus is epistemologically and materially grounded in the earth, for survival and flourishing. But the exodus earth is more than a sire or stage of political liberation; the earth is a participant and subject to the story.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus