Kevin's Theogrimage

To one of the men who stood by us in our times of suffering. To a father figure who practiced biblical manhood and exemplified it in his life and family. At my sister’s looking-forward-to-marriage ceremony, he came to bid her congratulations. I saw him, I saw him there and had a conversation with him. Would my knowing that death was lurking round the corner have changed the topic at hand? Would I have paid more attention to the chatting that was coming from a place of life? Contrasting with the wedding photos, and baby photos on my social media applications, the morning message announcing the passing on of a father-figure, a man who my parents sought counsel from and who saw eye-to-eye with each other, even heart-to-heart was dumbfounding. Dumbfounding in a manner too familiar to me, yet still with its stinging freshness, was the news spread this morning. Far from the coolness of a cucumber, my heart was at odds empathizing with my friends, who we grew up with and who called...

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 e...