Kevin's Theogrimage

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...

Let me begin by saying I write from an African context. I was raised up in a religious home, like many of my peers. It became a sort of tradition, and the concept of God was something that I held on to because of such an upbringing: They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. In my campus years, my curiosity resorted to some new tricks, in a simple statement, a quest to find my own imprint of this religion that had been passed down. The situation was further complicated by my working in a multi-cultural environment among the youth students, in areas of leadership, cultural exchange and social action. Here I was in a pot of simmering soup containing various religious beliefs (or lack thereof), philosophies and 'spirituality.' Needless to say, as an African, the general attack to what some would call "foreign religions" necessitated my distance towards an appreciation of the Christian faith. In fact, I cast it to the background, imbibed in youth culture and the...