THE AFRICAN SAGE

All young men, save for a few with jilted consciousness, begin to look for a girl they can marry once they hit the mid 20s. If you are like me, you probably had a good mother who told you that “My son, to succeed in life avoid women, the company of bad naughty boys and alcohol. Focus on your studies, go to church, do the right and proper things and God at the opportune time will give you a good wife.” Well, so you followed your mother and now you are 29 like me and wish to get married utmost in the next 5 years. The question is where I will find a good girl for marriage. I know you will be quick to ask me what I mean by a good girl for marriage. Let us model what makes a good wife. When an educated man looks for a wife, he considers the following among others 1.     Level of education of the girl and perceived intelligence 2.     Some moral issues i.e. what ethic does the girl subscribe to 3.     Demeanor of the girl i.e. how ...

I already indicated that I believe in St. John’s assertion that God is Love. Truly, then, it must occur to you that development anticipates no more than being in God, with God and for God. For those of you who do not trust in the belief in a deity, I will placate you by using words like ‘the all in all’. Like it or not, we refer to the same reality, we just have to affirm higher powers. Like it or not, we just have to affirm the influence of those powers on us and around us. Like it or not, we just have to move in the direction of them higher powers, if we are to live to the full i.e. as truly human, without pretense. As human beings we are contingents; limited beings. We by necessity require the help, sustenance and support of the higher powers. However, unlike any other thing that is totally and helplessly dependent, the benevolent higher powers allowed us capacity for auto-determination. We have rational capacity, which enables us capacity to exercise free will. Our rational c...

Being For: The perfect one is in an intimate relation with those that are from Him/Her. This relationship can never be broken because by all means the creatures just have to depend on Him and He just has to be there for them. It cannot be otherwise because in self, we are all beings for others. This is an effect that follows from the Cause, who by nature, we would say, is “Being-For” in totality. His/Her being is for no more than being for us the creatures. He/she or It is the necessary being on which all dependents, limited or imperfect beings depend. How best can we then describe our relationship with this being who is for us in totality? In the Bible, St. Paul having thought about the ways in which we express our ‘being-for ness’ says that there is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for a brother/sister. Taking from that, we can decipher that only love allows us contingents to be for others even to the extend of accepting death. If that is the case, and we already know...