“Nku no n’ mba na eghere mba nri”. This translates literally as: a people cook/ prepare their food with the (fire) woods available to them. This simply means that a people’s culture sustains them. Culture is a compendium of a…
Our forefathers succeeded in building a society of justice and equity; a society where political leaders were not paid and yet they were dedicated, sincere and conscientious; a society where doors were never locked and high fences were never built…
In the Middle Ages some scrupulous Christian writers were in the business of expanding some biblical accounts that they considered lacking in substance. One of those biblical accounts that they tried to improve on was story of Noah and his…
The Catholic Church, (other churches and religious bodies), especially, since 1965 has continued to encourage Africans to protect and promote their cultural values. Thus, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has not stopped issuing documents on the preservation of our…
In 2000, Pope John Paul II, in the name of Church apologised to the world for some errors carried out in the name of the Church. Among other things he said: “Let us ask pardon for the divisions which have…
1) During the harmattan of 1884, as the Africans were busy mending their houses and barns, the European powers gathered in Berlin, round an oak table, to discuss how to launch the mayhem that will for a long time haunt…
By Rev. Fr. Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 24 April 2021 1) Since the beginning of human history, humans have at every age directly or indirectly, knowing or unknowingly documented or preserved their beliefs, fears, abilities, weaknesses, failures, breakthroughs, experiences, joys,…
On the 14th of March this year, many Christian communities celebrated their mothering or mothers’ Sunday in Nigeria. Today being 18th April, Catholics are celebrating theirs. This means that someone whose mother is Anglican and mother-in-law is Catholic will have…
I once reproached some Igbo Christians who were demolishing and setting on fire an ancient Igbo native shrine and sacred objects. They told me that it were the villagers or the family that invited them to destroy them. “We did…
