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'The modern world was built by Christianity. They have taken the gods out of the earth and sent them to heaven, wherever that is... (Somé 1993).'

"The affair of the young man's death is between Karue and my father Waseru. What has the stranger to do with it?"
"That is stranger's law. Matu killed, he evil man. Therefore he stays with stranger."
"Then what does Karue receive in compensation for his son, who is dead?"
"He not receive anything."
"Then the stranger gets something for Karue's loss, and Karue's clan gets nothing at all."

"...where are we now? How did we come to be where we are? How did it come about that 75% of those that produce food and wealth were poor and that a small group were wealthy?"

...where are we now? How did we come to be where we are? How did it come about that 75% of those that produce food and wealth were poor and that a small group were wealthy?"

...and the seed we planted together with so much faith, hope, blood and tears: where is it now? I ask myself: where is the new force, what's the new force that will make the seed sprout and flower?

"Some could raise the objection that Africans who use foreign languages do so in an original manner and that their expression contains something specific of their race. But what the African can never express, until he abandons the use of foreign languages, is the peculiar genius of his own language..."

A religion that took no count of people's way of life, a religion that did not recognise any...beauty and truths in their way of life, was useless. It would not satisfy. It would not be a living experience, a source of life and vitality. It would only maim a man's souls, making him fanatically cling to whatever promised security, otherwise he would be lost.

'thus the presences and absences embodied in sources (artifacts and bodies that turn an event into fact) or archives (facts collected, thematised, and processed as documents and monuments) are neither neutral nor natural. They are created.'

Slave boys and girls Dance differently from true-borns.

Biafra

continuing to learn more about friendships with the people in our lives as well as with God.

So far so good. I'm picking up a lot of things: "Only one thing is necessary."

So far, I am picking up a lot of things: "Only one thing is necessary"

This is what winter break is for!But I feel as though I should start over!But I guess that's the beauty of Holmes:that I can always go back.

I'm so glad to have found this complete works!!!!

Oh, the letters he writes his sons are just heartwarming!!

Just started it but I'm liking it.

The money is gone!

'Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are.'

Lovely book!
You see how both love and propriety can exist at the same time in Jane.