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Fr Anselm Adodo

NIGERIAN CATHOLIC FATHER AND AFRIKAN SCHOLAR
the rise of a community of true
believers who are connected
and committed to the word God
has spoken over Afrika, who will
call it into being and diligently
work to bring it to pass. This will
open doors for unique product
and service innovations, as well
as unique spaces of expression
that will bring healing to the
bleeding hearts of her people
first, and then the whole world.
I see Afrika at the heart of ev-
erything; the hub in the wheel
that is the world.

What ought Afrikans be do-
ing now to ensure that we
as a people and as a con-
tinent truly realize Afrika's
great potential?
My people, we need to begin
asking a new set of questions
around who we are and why we
were created. We must realize
that our strength is in our unity
and our unity cannot be based
on greed. We must care for the
vulnerable with the clear inten-
tion of teaching them to rise up
and raise others too. Our focus
must be on shifting our hearts Tell us about yourself and Medical Sociology. I do not sub-
and minds to the truth of who
what you do, in relation to scribe to a narrow minded and
we are, then becoming that
the move for a truly liberat- limiting of education that churns
people. Resources are never out ‘experts’ who can only think
a challenge when the heart is ed Afrika. in one direction. Such forms of
right. I am an Afrikan scholar who
is interested in all aspects education do not bring out the
best in the individual, but only
You can follow Kyesubire's work of human research. I am an serve to produce egoistic and
on her website: advocate of Integral research. self-centered individuals. I think
www.kyesubire.org Integral research is research eventually, the world will turn
that does not just identify and
back to Afrika to learn about
analyze problems, but also
how to survive integrally in the
goes ahead to propose con-
crete solutions, and goes even world. Modernity may have
further to act on the proposed tempted humanity to overes-
timate their power of domi-
solutions. I studied History, Phi-
nance on the ecosystems. With
losophy, Theology, Spirituality,
COVID-19, we are learning not
Ethnobotany, Anthropology and

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