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Category: African Insight

The Door To The Future

The poor refuse to live in a misery not worthy of human beings: victims of exploitation, of wars that they do not understand and do not want. By the thousands, they prefer to leave their African countries and would rather die in an attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea than to lose the hope or even a glimpse of a dream. Europe has to face this reality, more so because in the next decades, with the millions of eco-refugees that climatic changes bring, no amount of dams will be able to stop the human flood. Global solidarity is the door to the future.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
African Insight

The Best Placed To Change Policies

Christian churches – and it is important to underline churches, that is to say the major historical Christian churches, with their lay members – in spite of shortcomings, have kept a high reputation in most African countries. They remain the best placed institutions to compel African governments to redraw policies for the protection of the poorest and most vulnerable groups.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
African Insight

Land of Christian-Islamic Encounter

Is Christian-Muslim dialogue still not considered a priority more than 40 years after the promulgation of the Vatican Council II document, Nostra Aetate? The Christian-Islamic encounter is potentially easier and more fruitful right in Africa, where the Islamic community often has absorbed a spirit of tolerance and the capacity to live in harmony with neighbors, which is typical of traditional African cultures.

Fr. Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
African Insight

A New Scramble for Africa

What has happened in Kenya must be seen in the wider context of a new scramble for Africa – for its wealth. It has been the heavy outside interference that has made the explosion of violence possible.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
African Insight

The Word To The Oppressed

The 2nd African Synod, in 2009, will have as theme: “The Church in Africa at the service of reconciliation, justice and peace.” The subjects who must be listened to: the victims and the peace experts. The Church must avoid the sterile vision of Africacontained in the preparatory document and must face the tribal question.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
African Insight

Christmas At Kibera

Many children of Kibera associate Christmas with the quest for family affections, peace and staying together. The sweetness of family life seems to be the dream of many of these street children, the longing for simple, tasty food, too – sweet and tasty because it is shared.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
African Insight

The Lack Of Good Leaders

In Mombasa, Father Charles tells me sadly that there is a lack of will to serve in society
and in the Church itself. In Maputo, Carlos, a street child who, some years ago, was rescued by a priest and now dreams to go to the seminary to be able to help other street children, confesses that everyday he asks Jesus to help him to become a good leader. Both of them are talking about the same: a big part of Africa’s problems is due to lack of good leaders.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
African Insight

The Christian Sense Of Life

In Africa, I have learned the Christian sense of life. I have learned that failures are more important than successes.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
African Insight

Flowers’ Bad Scent

Mostly in the hands of foreign companies, the flower farms in Kenya represent millions of euros in terms of exports. But the booming blooming industry has heavy costs to the workers.

Renato Kizito Sesana | Comboni Missionary
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