VoiceAfrique: Perspectives on Faith , Life and Politics from Africa and the Diaspora

Send us Fan Mail "I am incurably hopeful about the future of Africa despite all the difficulties we faced this year." With these words, one of the most influential Catholic bishops in Africa, Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle, reviews this passing year (2021) and the challenges and signs of hope in Africa today. He invites Africans and the world to celebrate this Christmas with joy, despi...

Send us Fan Mail Global health advocate, physician and humanitarian, Dr. Susan Nedza and Fr Stan Chu Ilo discuss the way forward for Africa and the world in the fight against the new variants of Covid-19. Both decry the medical apartheid against the poor, and the racialized thinking that led to the recent flight bans imposed on some African countries by many Western countries. They make some recom...

Send us Fan Mail Fr Jacquineau Azetsop, S.J., who died on October 13th this year in Rome spoke so eloquently to our world in many ways than one. A Jesuit from Cameroon, Fr. Azetsóp was until his death the dean of the Pontifical Gregorian University School of Social Sciences in Rome, where his teaching and research focused on issues of health policy, public health ethics, social dimensions of healt...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe who was called a hero by CNN and named by Times Magazine by one "100 Most Influential People in the World'. Hear about the joys and challenges of ministering in Northern Uganda, a place that has been ravaged by conflict and instability which has resulted in abject poverty and much suffering. Her desire to serve has led her on an adventure and f...

Send us Fan Mail Sr. Mary Justine Naluggya,  recently joined the rarified ranks of African women who possess a doctorate in Canon Law when she graduated this summer. Despite not knowing much about canon law, she responded to an invitation to pursue studies in theology that led her down this path as part of the mutual discernment of the common good that the vow of obedience demands. Her academic jo...

Send us Fan Mail Sr. Jane Wakahiu LSOSF takes us on the journey of her life. Her deep faith and its call to service nurtured by her parents at a tender age, led to her fiat to a life as a Little Sister of St Francis. Since then, she has continued to serve in a number of different and increasingly demanding roles that she has executed with great finesse and grace. Her ministerial experiences have g...

Send us Fan Mail  "Climate change is not only bad news for Africa, it is bad news for the world." With these words, Jesuit priest, scientist, ecologist, and environmental ethicist, Peter Knox, dissects for us what was achieved at the just concluded UN Climate Change Conference,  COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. He tells the story of our wounded earth and  invites us to listen to the cries of...

Send us Fan Mail "We cannot lose the light of hope"..."We are called to bring the light of Christ in Africa", with these words, Pauline sisters,  Josephine Idowu, and Philo Agba share with us their very challenging but life-transforming grassroots evangelization ministry of bringing hope to Africa today amidst the challenges of the pandemic, violence, and failing governments. T...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nontando Hadebe a child of parents from different ethnicities and nationalities, born a Catholic, but who in her mid-twenties took a ecumenical sojourn, visiting other churches that enriched her life greatly.  Eventually, Ignatian Spirituality, a justice focused parish and experiencing Catholic Social Teaching in praxis brought her back to the Catholic Church. She began her wo...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Fr. Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula S.J, a Jesuit priest from the DRC who also happens to be a political scientist and by belief and practice also a womanist, desiring and championing for women's dignity, participation and equity in society and church. We hear about his motivation to study political science and how that compliments theology  and our faith life rather than co...

Send us Fan Mail Sr. Josée Ngalula, an accomplished theologian and a  Sister of St. Andre from the Democratic Republic of Congo shares her hopes and dreams for the African Church and especially African Catholic women.  We also get to learn of some of the details about the process that took place behind the scenes, leading to her appointment to the International Theological Commission, becoming the...

Send us Fan Mail Sr Kemi Akinleye and Sr Beatrice  Efembele who are heading the publication department of the Paulines Sisters, West Africa tell the stories of their lives, ministry, grassroots evangelization, and faith animation through the Paulines Publications, Africa. They narrate the challenging experience of Christian persecution in Nigeria, the rise in violence in the country, the hostile e...

Send us Fan Mail On October 10, 2021 , Pope Francis will open a two-year synodal process in the worldwide Catholic Church. In creating the opportunity for listening and dialogue on the local level through this Synod, Pope Francis is calling the Church to rediscover her deeply synodal nature. This is a time to pray, listen, analyze, dialogue, and discern how to build a vital church in Africa and in...