What is family? Sometime back I was really thinking about what family meant, and I realized that it has various meanings for different people. Family to me is anyone who loves me almost unconditionally and wants the best for me. I grew up thinking that family is blood and I’m sure a lot of us …
Ghana is not in short-supply of disasters, natural or otherwise, and with each such event providing an opportunity to witness religious diversity in grief and mourning. On the 9th day of May in 2001, Ghana experienced one of our worst disasters at the Accra sports stadium. 126 lives were lost. From the presidency to various religious …
FILLING THE VOID THROUGH COMMUNITY – ARE WE READY? Read More »
Let’s start with a little thought experiment; What would happen if today, all borders were open and people were free to live wherever they wanted? What do we foresee would be different? Where one was born is completely up to chance and there is therefore no humanist basis for insisting that people should be confined …
Spirit is a word most frequently used in religious settings, a concept invoked to explain the difference between a living body and a corpse. The cry for an explanation stems from the fact that there is very little physical difference between the two states. Without recourse to a potent set of theories on matter and energy, …
I read somewhere that being a conscious black person is exhausting. I will like to go further; being a conscious black person in an African country is a mental health problem waiting to happen. The news will constantly remind you of how much work needs to be done and sometimes you will wish that you …
Burning Bridges – The Idea of Biases and Privilege Read More »
Our journey to freedom of speech starts over 1.75million years ago when our human ancestors, the hominids, developed speech. Curiously enough, this development was in tandem with the development of simple tools. Technology and expressing ideas have had a long history together. For as long as humans have had ideas, language evolved to express those …
I have been in several spaces where we have persons agree on set goals and on pretty much everything else about what kind of future they want, but their entrenched positions on Capitalism and Marxism or Socialism. I have always found it strange that such ideas can be deified even among freethinkers, a feat I …
Can we start from the Beginning – Economic theories and the shouting matches Read More »
Full disclosure; I am a man, a cisgendered heterosexual man living in a heteronormative world. I have to recognize my bias and compensate for it somehow. To me, humanism and science play a key role in doing just that. Science as a tool to understand the world around us is as old as we have …
Biology Vs Sociology – The Nuances of gender politics under scientific lenses Read More »
Morality – the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong, good and bad, ethical and unethical – has always been at the top of philosophical discourse. For as long as we have been asking questions, and discussing ideas, we has been fascinated with the concept of right and wrong. The many moral theories – …
One wonders where to look for examples in the culture of cathedral building in Africa’s antediluvian history. First of all, Africans do not have homeless Gods in dire need of housing. We also don’t believe in an insecure God who needs and demands humanity’s faith in him or her in order to be. Neither do …
To Build or Not To Build – “God at the mercy of politicians and the clergy” Read More »