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G21 AFRICA: HOLY POVERTY - Nigeria's STEVE OGAH provides the last article on the G21 2007 Focus Issue: Relieving Global Poverty.
Lagos, NIGERIA - One of the intractable problems facing humanity is the rising incidence of poverty. But poverty will not be a? problem if man regards it as holy and spiritual. To be poor and wretched, and to live in destitution, is not the? wholesome dream of any man. But the world is being lectured on the concept of holy poverty.
Holy poverty still remains poverty. It only stretches the limits of the definition of poverty when one sees it as being ordained by God in heaven.
From a spiritual standpoint, holy poverty would be perceived as spiritual richness. It's a state where the individual lives in abject and accepted poverty on earth; and in the eyes of the world. In God's eyes, the person is considered spiritually adequate for the grace of God. This is because of their unwillingness to act and change their mode of material living. ...READ MORE
ON FILM: - GOD-FORSAKEN CONTINENT? FOOD FOR THOUGHT - Seeing "Blood Diamond" leads MORAA GITAA to think about depictions of Africa in popular culture and the actual conditions they claim to reflect in a thoughtful essay.
Mombasa, KENYA - ''As humans, we can only share the grief with those who have been directly affected by this calamity.''
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki - on May 14th 2007 at the national day of prayers function called for the victims of the Kenya Airways flight 507 plane crash...
As usual the Kenyan President totally forgot all about the lesser Kenyans dying in land clashes! Back to this in a minute... ... READ MORE
GLOBAL*BEAT: - BIRO - A UGANDAN'S JOURNEY - ROD AMIS reviews "Biro: Beware of Time" from Cinema Libre Studio.
18 June 2007, Austin, TX, USA: Cinema Libre Studio, with whom G21.net has had a long-standing relationship, released the film "Biro: Beware of Time" at the end of May on DVD. The film presents a live performance of the play "Bi ro" by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine recorded at Uganda's National Theatre in 2003. This powerful production, a one-man show, has received international acclaim and mesmerized audiences around the globe.
Mwine has a wiry, compelling and moving stage presence that he puts to good use in this production. The special stage elements are minimalist but effective. The story he tells, of a Uganda soldier who fights against the ruling regime, travels to Cuba - where he discovers he has contracted AIDS - and then makes his way to Texas in the United States in the hope of getting treatment is both historically instructive and cautionary. ... READ MORE
FEED THE HUNGRY. You can help someone else in this world and IT WON'T COST YOU A DIME. If you simply remember to drop by The Hunger Site every day that you surf and click a simple button ONE LESS PERSON WILL GO HUNGRY. The food is distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme and paid for through the sponsorship of companies that care. Do your part.
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