Africa

Uganda and Shropshire

by Eddie 13.08.2010

This is a great video and I hope everyone who visits this blog takes the four minutes it takes to watch it. If you are in Church leadership in the UK you might like to consider what your church could do to start a partnership like this one. That being said, there are a couple [...]

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God’s Word is Alive

by Eddie 29.07.2010

I’m constantly amazed at some of the things that my friends and colleagues do and even more amazed at what God achieves through them. HT Journeyman

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Africans…

by Eddie 16.07.2010

There is a rather silly headline to an article in the Telegraph today. Africans don’t rate Bob Geldof, so why should we? The article goes on to bemoan the nature of celebrity aid culture, which is something that I have done on more than one occasion (here and here for example). However, whatever the merits [...]

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Local Languages in Education

by Eddie 15.07.2010

This is a fascinating article on the use of local languages in Africa: Brazzaville, Congo – A United Nations education expert on Thursday told a conference of top African education officials in Brazzaville that countries on the continent need to switch from foreign to local languages as a medium of instruction in elementary school to [...]

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You Can’t Trust People in Africa

by Eddie 06.07.2010

At least that’s what PayPal and other online companies seem to think. I haven’t been able to use PayPal for two months. I just got profiled for extra security measures on Facebook. I can’t make certain purchases from Africa. Few organizations ship goods to me here. Let’s be honest; living in Africa, or being African, [...]

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Surprising facts about Africa

by Eddie 04.06.2010

Some fascinating insights into Africa from a Pew Foundation study reported in Christianity Today. HT Ben

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John MBiti on Bible Translation

by Eddie 24.05.2010

Ben has a long post based on notes that he took while listening to Kenyan theologian and author John MBitit. There is lots of good stuff in here, but I’ll just give one key quote. Now, Bible translation have landed the Scriptures into more and more local languages. This enables the people to hear the [...]

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Reading Our Language to Our People

by Eddie 17.05.2010

I love this short video from the Denya language area in Cameroon from the Seed Company.

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Bible Translation and Culture Change

by Eddie 19.04.2010

Talking about Christian mission work and its impact on culture is always difficult. There is an excellent example of this in the GlobalPost today in an article about Bible translation in Mali. The article is about the translation of the Bible into Toro-So, one of the many Dogon languages in Mali. Back in the mid-1990s [...]

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God Speaks My Language: Part 1

by Eddie 31.03.2010

This video from Wycliffe Canada gives a good overview of one strategy for Bible translation in Africa. My twitter friend Fosterius gives a great overview of the extent of project.

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Tokunboh Adeyemo

by Eddie 18.03.2010

Apart from one or two media names and the odd scandal, people in the West are unaware of the breadth and depth of Christian leadership in Africa. Because of this, the death of Dr. Tokunboh Adeyemo has hardly caused a ripple in the new in Britian. But as this tribute shows, the church has lost a [...]

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African Theology

by Eddie 11.03.2010

Onesimus has transcribed an amazing conversation between a group of (mainly African) post-grad students discussing the issue of African theology. It is rather long, but it is well worth a read and there are lots of great insights: When the gospel came to Africa, it was foreign to the way of life of the people. [...]

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