Kevin's Theogrimage

1. Introduction What is the kind of   anthropology that is beneficial for the global man today? The 21 st Century African man is faced with a variety of influences that inform his humanity and his interpretation of the world and God. The 21 st Century African man finds himself in a metropolis, where no singular and objective foundation of meaning is accorded to him. The African Scholar J. N. K. Mugambi observes “the greatest evidences of anarchical tendencies is in the urban centres – which, sociologically and universally, are associated with individual freedom from, anonymity, mobility, opportunity, flexibility and plurality.” [1] Mugambi observes that other scholars see this plurality of phenomenon as a success. Yet, a quick observation of the daily news articles paints a different picture: Religious wars, political and social anarchy, economic and health deprivation, capitalism, broken relationships and death. How then is man to find meaning in this cacophony of human exper

a.       Introduction The main thesis of this piece is to provide a proof for the existence of God based on a cosmological argument that synthesizes Western analytic and African thought, to prove that atheism in Africa has no thorough basis for its worldview. In the historical discourse on the existence of God, several arguments and counter-arguments have been posited by Philosophers, Theologians, Scientists and other scholars. Whereas John Mbiti’s statement that Africans are religious has almost become an altruism, the rate of the youth disinterested with religion and specifically theism poses a problem. However, the writer posits that Atheists in Africa have no thorough basis for their worldview because sufficient evidence exists for God’s existence both from the work of Western Analytic Philosophers as well as Africanist scholars in the discipline of Cosmology. The writer presumes that due to the lack of a familiarity with the African conception of God as well as lack of crit