Re: [External] USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Russian Orthodox Church on the move in Africa

Brother Cornelius:

Does the African brother in the church photo speak the area's language? That, in fact, reminded me of what I saw during a Fulbright research visit to an Indonesian village, near Yogyarkata, in the mid-1980s. In that remote village, I encountered a Nigerian brother (a Computer Engineer in his 40s in age) and his Indonesian Muslim wife as well as a Ghanaian brother (an Architecture Professor in his mid-60s in age) and his Ghanaian wife. As I shook hands with the African brothers, gasping with wonder, I said: "Brothers, so you live here?" The older Ghanaian brother retorted: "Well, if you go to the cold Eskimo-land, you will find an African, if not some Africans..!" 

Today, Africans are everywhere, just like the axiomatic lost tribe! And it is not their fault, as our governments back home have no new jobs to absorb the unemployed younger generation, regardless of their education. How sad! Sometimes, in Ghana -- in retrospect -- I remembered how the C.P.P. government, in the early 1960s, established the Workers' Brigade, the Young Farmers' League, etc., mainly to create jobs for the people. Is that impossible now?  

A.B. Assensoh.   

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