The Review of The “Sin is a Puppy That Follows You Home” of Balaraba Ramat Yakubu by Deepa Dharmadhikari

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a wonderful talk about “the danger of a single story” that you can listen to, online. When you’re handed the first Hausa-language (spoken in parts of Africa) novel translated into English, you
can get a sense of the perilous burden of that description.

In an interesting misrepresentation, the publishers seem to have chosen to promote
this sense of exotic uniqueness, blurbing the book as “quite unlike anything you’ve ever read before”. There is a world of context to be brought to such a claim.

Are you familiar with the Indian epics? Then you will be completely at ease with the narrative pausing for a chapter or two to elaborate about the ancestry of its protagonists, with miraculous progeny bestowed on parents yearning for children. Are you used to the materialistic itemization of gifts and assets in chick lit, where millinery detailing stands in for romance? If so, your heart
will delight in all the matter-of-fact lists: gifts given to an illicit lover; gifts given to a first wife upon marriage to a second; gifts given through your parents to the household of your intended.
Are you at home in the microcosmic world of an inward-facing society, as portrayed by Jane Austen, or
Enid Blyton, or Shobhaa De? Then you will immediately recognize the insouciant tolerance of the way things are versus the scandal of the things not done (polygamy vs extra-marital affairs, not paying a daughter’s school fees vs not buying her a bed for her marriage).

Sin is a Puppy follows the everyday lives of women in
Nigeria

So let us set aside this presumed universalizing “you” who
is being addressed by a Hausa speaker, even as we—Anglophone Indians reading, and writing, this review—acknowledge what this book fulfils. While attempts of Non-Aligned Movement-inspired Afro-Asian solidarity have fizzled in and out of our cultural spheres, we have largely mediated our engagement with Nigerian
writers through the Western-approved, if undeniably great, literary craft practised by Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Anglophone Igbo and Yoruba writers often expatriated abroad.

In terms of cachet, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu is admirably placed, with best-selling author and film-maker credits to her name. Her translator Aliyu Kamal is, in his own right, an English novelist and professor at Bayero University, Nigeria. Blaft has, with great success before, translated popular, mass-market stories and created a literary buzz around them, without undue fetishizing. Let us get the multiple meta-textual reasons for celebrating this book out of the way; it is a Hausa (Muslim, Black, Nigerian, African) woman writing for her peers, made accessible to us by desi publishers who find a glossary to be redundant. Kudos all round!

But what did I actually think about the story of a woman (temporarily) leaving her abusive husband while her daughter finds a suitable boy (or rather, twice married man)?

Sin is a Puppy That Follows You Home: Blaft, 126 pages, Rs 250

Dear reader, I was rather charmed by it. Comparing the plot to Ekta Kapoor’s soaps or Karan Johar’s family dramas misrepresents the scale of the story because, for all the theatrics indulged in it, the plot is uncompromisingly stark about how patriarchy, society and religion interfere in women’s desires and autonomy.

I found far more resonances with the pragmatic tragedies of Mahasweta Devi’s stories, or the deceptively mundane female worlds of Ismat Chughtai’s work. Women tear each other down, draw dramatic lines between sluttiness and respectability, rely on brothers and extended family while suffering spousal abuse and abandonment. Romance and courtship are abbreviated to a few
fast-moving dialogues because the author wants to spend time on the minutiae of how a selfish second wife neglects her kitchen duties. Yakubu’s matriarchal lead Rabi—with her culinary enterprise born of desperation, her baffled rage at
her husband’s mistress, her fierce determination to promote her children—is soul sister to Parvati from Kiran Nagarkar’s Ravan and Eddie. Rabi’s daughter Saudatu—dignified, dutiful, happily desirous—resembles Sita in her deference to narrative fiat.

The main reason I would recommend reading this book is because of how much it made me feel at home. It is not heartwarming in the treacly manner of popular films, but instead, like the family histories your aunties tell you, full of compromises and small justices, and the “life goes on” approach to domestic tragedy. This is not a story of exotic Africa, nor of epochal moments in histories of colonialism and its aftermath, nor yet about the fetishized tensions of being Muslim. Instead, it is shopkeepers falling in love with women stopping to buy dress material, and mothers vacillating between the street being unsafe and being a good place to meet eligible men, and bored wives
eyeing comely electricians summoned to fix the wiring. Let other books talk about purdah and polygamy; this is a book that concerns itself with soap.

”The truth might be hard to say, painful to bear or even drastic for the truth sayer but still needed to be said”. ALISON.

Nnaemeka Ali, O.M.I

Writer & Blogger

Related Posts:

  • All Post
  • #BaseCôtesNord
  • #Benjamins_Canada
  • #BokoHaram
  • #BringBackOurGirls
  • #Buhari
  • #Burundi
  • #CatholicChurch
  • #Developpement et Paix
  • #Einstein
  • #EWTN
  • #FirstNations
  • #FourthSundayofLent
  • #Funeral
  • #Gar_right
  • #HumanRight
  • #Igbo
  • #IIT_Lagos
  • #Industrial_training
  • #Insecurity
  • #iPad
  • #iPhone
  • #IsisParisAttack
  • #JEG
  • #Justice
  • #Kateri_Tekakwitha
  • #Kenya
  • #Kenyata
  • #Lent
  • #Mani-Utenam
  • #Mbaka
  • #NationalCatholicReporters
  • #NigerianElection
  • #NigeriaYouths
  • #Nkurunziza
  • #NnamdiKanu
  • #Nutashkuan
  • #Obama
  • #ObyEzekwesili
  • #OMI
  • #OMIQUEBEC
  • #Oration
  • #PierreNkurunziza
  • #Pray4Nigeria
  • #PrayforParis
  • #Premières_Nations.
  • #Putsch
  • #Relativité
  • #ReligioninNigeria
  • #Religious_Life
  • #Science
  • #Storage
  • #Technology
  • #Terrorism
  • #ThéoriedeRelativité
  • #Trial/Error
  • #Uashat
  • #Vide
  • #VoteWisely
  • #YoungOblates
  • abuja
  • Africa
  • African Catholicism
  • African Christianity
  • African Classics
  • African Literature
  • African mythologie
  • African philosophy
  • African Poetry
  • African Saints
  • African theologians
  • Afrika
  • Air Canada Canada
  • ALI Nnaemeka Cornelius
  • all saint day
  • Amadioha
  • American dream
  • Americanah
  • Amerindiens
  • Amour
  • Anansi
  • Angels
  • Anges
  • Annunciation
  • Antananarivo
  • antipodes existentiels
  • Apostles
  • APTN
  • Arab spring
  • Archbishop Kaigama
  • Aso rock
  • Assassination of clergies. National Catholic Bishops Conferences of Cameroon
  • Asusu Igbo
  • Athletics
  • Atikamek
  • Autochtones
  • Autocton
  • avenir de la vie religieuse
  • Away (TV Series)
  • Baba Suwe
  • Babcock University
  • Bahamas
  • Bakassi Penisula
  • Balaraba Ramat
  • Baptême
  • Baptême du Seigneur
  • Baptism
  • Barack Obama
  • Béatitude
  • Benedict XVI
  • Benny Hinn
  • Betrayal of Jesus
  • Biafra
  • Biafra war
  • Biafran Civil War
  • Biafran-Nigerian war
  • biodiversité
  • Birthday
  • Bishop Badejo
  • Bishop John Ayah
  • Bishop Sebastianappan Singaroyan
  • Bishops' synods
  • Black Catholics
  • Black Child
  • Black identity
  • Black lives matter
  • Black lives matters
  • Black Panther
  • Black Poetry
  • Black theology
  • Black Time
  • Blackface
  • Blackout
  • Blessed Iwene Tansi
  • Boko-Haram
  • Boko-Haram victims
  • bomb blast
  • bombs
  • Bonjour
  • Brownface
  • Brutalité policière
  • burying the dead
  • Business
  • cabals
  • Cafeteria
  • Calliope
  • Cameroon
  • Cameroun
  • Canada
  • Canadian_Church
  • canotage
  • Capital purnishment
  • Cardinal George
  • Cardinal Sarah
  • Caster Semenya
  • catéchèse
  • Catéchètes
  • Catechism
  • Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria
  • Catholic Church
  • Catholic church and racism
  • Catholic Diocese of Salem
  • Catholic theology
  • Catholicism
  • Catholicity in Igbo land
  • CBCN
  • CBN
  • CCBI
  • Celibacy
  • Célibat des prêtres
  • CENC
  • Centre Afrika
  • Changement climatique
  • Chigozie Obioma
  • Chika Ezeanya
  • Chika Unigwe
  • Child abuse
  • Child soldier
  • Children
  • Children and Mission
  • Children's Corner
  • Children's Psychology
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Christian gathering
  • Christian poetry
  • Christmas poem
  • Chrstian showmanship
  • Church services
  • Church Social Development
  • Churches in Nigeria
  • City poetry
  • Civil union
  • Clergy Sexual Abuses
  • Clericalism
  • climat du Nord
  • Coat of arm
  • Cœur d’enfant
  • Collective Consciousness
  • Colonisation
  • coloriage
  • Communauté de foi
  • Communauté religieuse
  • communauté vivante
  • Communautés culturelles
  • Community developement
  • Community life
  • Community School
  • Conclave
  • Conference Épiscopale du Cameroon
  • Conférence Épiscopale du Tchad
  • confinement solitaire
  • Conflict de génération
  • Conseil des églises canadiennes
  • Contercultural revolution
  • Contextual theology
  • Corona Virus
  • Corona Virus et la foi
  • corporal works of mercy
  • Corruption
  • Corruption in Nigeria
  • Côte-Nord
  • Cotes d'Ivoire
  • counterculture
  • Couple
  • Covid Skepticism
  • Covid Skeptics
  • COVID19
  • Covid19andFaith
  • COVID19inNigeria
  • Covid19Poetry
  • Creativity in mission
  • Cross
  • Croyance Chrétienne
  • Crucifix
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Cultural resilience
  • Culture
  • Culture of Rape
  • Daily reflection
  • Daily reflections
  • Dambisa Moyo
  • De Gaule
  • Dear Ijeawele
  • Debout
  • Dele Giwa
  • Democracie
  • Democracy
  • Democracy Day Celebration
  • Denis Hurley
  • Denyse Mostert
  • Desjardins
  • Devaluation
  • dialogue
  • dimanche de la parole de Dieu
  • Diplomacy fo Peace
  • Disciples of Emmaus
  • Discipleship
  • Disney World
  • Domination
  • domination occidentale
  • Dorian
  • Douleur d’enfantements
  • Dr Stella Emmanuel
  • Earth Day
  • Easter
  • Easter message
  • ecclésiologie
  • Ecclesiology
  • Ecology
  • ecopoésie
  • Ecumenism
  • Education
  • Église
  • église et mission
  • Église presbytérienne
  • Ekuanitshit
  • Ekuantshit
  • El Rufai
  • emekalison
  • ENDSARS
  • enigma
  • Enugu
  • Enugu-Ezike
  • Epiphany
  • Équilibre mental
  • Est du Québec
  • etc.
  • étoile filante
  • être église
  • Évangélisation
  • existence
  • exploitation
  • Eze Okechukwu
  • facebook
  • Faith
  • Faith and COVID19
  • FaithAndFear
  • Fake miracles
  • famille mazenodienne
  • Famille Myriam
  • Family Church
  • Family ritual
  • Fanaticism
  • Farming ritual
  • fatalité
  • Father figure
  • Fear
  • Feminism
  • Femmes autochtones
  • Fête des mères
  • Fêtes des mères
  • Fiat
  • Fishing
  • Focolare
  • Foi et Turbulences
  • Font baptismal
  • Forbes
  • Fr Joseph Ntumba Maboyi
  • Fr Mbaka
  • France-Afrique
  • Francophonie
  • Frank Santucci
  • Fraternalisation virtuelle
  • Fraternisation virtuelle
  • frein culturel
  • frère soleil
  • Fuel Subsidy
  • Fuel Subsidy removal
  • Gadhaffi
  • Gbagbo
  • Gender discrimination
  • Genocide of India's daughter
  • genre discrimination
  • George Floyd
  • Giant Nation
  • GirlsLivesMatter
  • Globalization
  • Glorious Cross
  • Good Friday
  • Goodluck Jonathan
  • guerre
  • guerre économique
  • Hajj
  • Handicaps
  • Happiness
  • harponage
  • Hassan KUKAH
  • hero
  • Heureux
  • Hilary Swank
  • Histoire de l’Église
  • Hiver
  • Holy Cross
  • Homecoming
  • Homeless Babies
  • Homily
  • Hommage
  • hope poetry
  • Hope Uzodimma
  • House Collapses in lagos
  • Human right
  • Hurricane
  • Hydro-Québec
  • Hydroxychloroquine
  • I am George Floyd
  • I.A.A.F.
  • Iconography
  • Ife
  • Igbo Cosmology
  • Igbo Culture
  • Igbo girls
  • Igbo language
  • Igbo women
  • Immigrant
  • Imo State
  • Imperialisme
  • Imperialisme etc
  • In the name of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit
  • Inculturation
  • India
  • indigenous spirituality
  • Industrial Institute of Technology
  • infant baptism
  • Innu
  • innu mission
  • Innu poetry
  • innu-aiamun
  • Innu-aimun
  • innushkuess
  • Institut Tshakapesh
  • Interculturalité
  • interculturality
  • Interfaith dialogue
  • International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace
  • Intersectional theology
  • intersectionality
  • Isaiah 55
  • Islam
  • Jean Vanier
  • Jeoy Velasco
  • Jesus
  • Jesusthustra
  • Jesustraphilia
  • Jesuthoustra
  • John 18:33-40
  • Joint Mars Initiative
  • Jos
  • Journée Africaine
  • Joyce Echaquan
  • Jun Mercado
  • Justice and Peace
  • Justice For Uwa
  • Justice sociale
  • Justin Trudeau
  • Kagame
  • kakatshat
  • Kanatamat
  • Kelvin Ugwuh
  • Khiona
  • Kola Nut
  • Kwanzaa
  • l’Arche
  • L’Église
  • La lutte autochtone
  • La messe
  • la neige
  • La Police au Nord du Québec
  • La sûreté du Québec
  • Lagos Construction Sector
  • Langue innue
  • le nord
  • Le Seigneur vient
  • Leadership
  • les vieux anges
  • Liberation theology
  • linguistic science
  • Literature
  • littérature autochtone
  • Louis Studer
  • Lourdes
  • Lumumba
  • lutte contre la drogue
  • Madiba
  • makushan
  • Malala
  • Malawi
  • Mallam Abba Kyari
  • Manifestation of God
  • manipulation
  • Maniutenam
  • Mara phone
  • Marcel TOWA
  • Maria Fearing
  • mariage
  • Marie
  • Mariologie
  • Marriage
  • Marriage in Nigeria
  • Marriage proposal
  • Mathieu André
  • Matimekosh
  • Matimekush-Lac John
  • Maya Angelou
  • Mère d’espérance
  • Message de Noël
  • Mgr Balla
  • Mgr Jean Marie Benoît Balla
  • Mgr Yves Plumey
  • Mgrs Fortunatus Neachukwu
  • Michel Hébert
  • Millet Farming
  • Mingan
  • Minor Seminary
  • mishta-shipu
  • Mission
  • mission 3.0
  • Mission autochtones
  • mission guidelines
  • Mission Innu
  • Mission Innue
  • missionaire
  • Missionaries Oblats
  • missionary
  • Missionary challenges
  • missionary letter
  • Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
  • Missionary of Saint Paul
  • MissionInnue
  • missionnaire
  • Missionnaire noirs
  • Missionnaires
  • Mitt Romney
  • Mois d’histoire des noirs
  • Mother Earth
  • mourning
  • MSP
  • My country
  • my father
  • Naija
  • Naija Poetry
  • Naira
  • Naskapi Cap
  • Nathaniel Chukwuebuka
  • Nation innue
  • National Anthem
  • National Pledge
  • Native Princess
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Neocolonization
  • Netflixing
  • New Evangelization
  • New York City
  • NewsWatch Magazine
  • Ngozi Ezeanya
  • Nietzsche
  • Nigeria
  • Nigeria men and rape
  • Nigerian Catholic Church
  • Nigerian Catholicism
  • Nigerian Catholics
  • Nigerian Christian Persecution
  • Nigerian Church
  • Nigerian Civil War
  • Nigerian Economy
  • Nigerian election
  • Nigerian female students
  • Nigerian Flag
  • Nigerian Government
  • Nigerian Martyrs
  • Nigerian poetry
  • Nigerian police
  • Nigerian Police Force
  • Nigerian politics
  • Nigerian Society
  • Nigerian Transport companies
  • Nigerian women
  • Nigerianleadership
  • Nkruma
  • nkuzi nke okwukwe
  • Nnaemeka Ali
  • Nneka
  • Nok
  • NoMassInTimeOfCovid19
  • Nord
  • nordicité
  • Northern poetry
  • Northern Quebec
  • NoToDrug
  • Notre-Dame des Douleurs
  • Nsukka
  • nuitshimit
  • Nuns
  • NYSC
  • o.m.i
  • O’Bomsawin
  • Oblate
  • Oblate missions
  • oblates
  • OblatesVoices
  • Oblats
  • occupy Nigeria
  • OCH
  • Ode
  • Okonjo-Iweala
  • Old Angels
  • OMI Cameroun
  • OMI Congo
  • OMI US Province
  • OMICameroun
  • OMIWorld
  • Onaiyekan
  • Online Worshiping
  • Opinion
  • Oraison
  • Orisha
  • Ouatara
  • Our Lady of Sorrow
  • Pachamama
  • paean
  • Palaver Conversation
  • Panafricanism
  • Pandemics
  • Papal Audience
  • Pape François
  • Parish
  • Parle du jour
  • paroisse
  • Parole de Dieu
  • Pasteur
  • Pastoral
  • pastoral creativity
  • pastorale
  • pastorale jeunesse
  • Paul Biya
  • Peace
  • peace poetry
  • Peace resolution
  • peacebuilding
  • pèlerin
  • pentecostalism
  • pentecostalism and our culture
  • périphéries existentielles
  • Philippines
  • Philosophy
  • philosophy african
  • pidgin poetry
  • Pierre Nkurunziza
  • PIN 10-DAY POETRY CHALLENGE MAY 2019
  • Place Tahir
  • plan nord
  • Pocahontas
  • Poem
  • Poème
  • Poème religieux
  • Poésie
  • Poésie autochtones
  • Poésie religieuse
  • PoesieCovid19
  • PoésieNordique
  • poète militant
  • Poetry
  • police brutality
  • Political defection
  • Political Poetry
  • politics
  • pope
  • Pope Francis
  • Port Harcourt
  • portage
  • Post Covid19 Church
  • post-covid19 mission
  • post-covid19ienne
  • potter
  • Pottery
  • Prayer
  • Prejudice. Literature.
  • prêtre missionnaire
  • Prière
  • Prière à Marie
  • Prières à Marie
  • priesthood
  • Princesse indienne
  • Printemps
  • Prosperity gospel
  • Prosperity preachers
  • Provincial Superior
  • Psaume de la creation
  • Québec
  • race humaine
  • Racial prejudice
  • Racism
  • Racism in Amrica
  • Racisme Systèmique
  • Radio Ville Marie
  • RapistsAreCriminals
  • Ratzinger
  • rebelion
  • rebellion
  • reconciliation
  • Religieux
  • Religion
  • Religious Crisis
  • Religious Diologue
  • religious proliferation. sects
  • Religious sisters
  • Return to Spirit
  • Risana Nafeek
  • Rita Mestokosho
  • ritual
  • Rivière Mingan
  • Rivière Saint Laurent
  • Rivière-Nipissis
  • Robert Mugabe
  • Rochas
  • RTC
  • Rudoph Okonkwo
  • Ruwanda
  • Rwanda
  • Sacraments
  • Sacred Signs
  • Sahara Reporters
  • Saint Eugene de Mazenod
  • Sainte Africaine
  • Samurai
  • Sarkozy
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Schefferville
  • Sede Vacante
  • Semaine d'unité chrétienne
  • Senghor
  • Sept-Îles
  • Série Télévisée
  • SexForGrade
  • Seyi Rhodes
  • Shango
  • Sharia law
  • Sign of the cross
  • Signes baptismaux
  • Sisters_in_spirit
  • Skidoo
  • Slavery
  • Smokey mountain
  • Social Justice
  • Social theology
  • SocialMediaBill
  • Society
  • sociological vs anthropological problems
  • sociology
  • Solitary confinement
  • Sous-developement
  • South Africa
  • South African Apartheid Heroes
  • South Afrika
  • Spiritual paternalism
  • Spiritualité autochtone
  • Spiritualité virtuelle
  • Sri Lanka
  • St Eugene De Mazenod nous parle
  • St Martin's Parish Ihiteowerre
  • Startup
  • Stations of the Cross
  • Ste Joséphine Bahkita
  • stéréotype
  • Suicide
  • Sultan of Sokoto
  • Sunday Réflection
  • Sunday reflections
  • Sureté du Québec
  • Tambour
  • The 2013 Nigerian Budget
  • the Church
  • The heart of a child
  • Thé Salada
  • Theresa Mamah
  • Thinking Black
  • ThisdayNigeria
  • Tourisme Sept-Îles
  • Toxicomanie
  • Troisième Dimanche de Carême
  • Trudeau
  • Tshakapesh
  • Tshiuetin
  • U.N.
  • Ubuntu
  • Ugbaike
  • Ujamaa
  • Umura Primary School
  • UN
  • Uncategorized
  • Unconditional love
  • une journée parfaite
  • Union Africaine
  • US Presidential race
  • Vacant seat
  • Vatican
  • Vatican. Catholic Church
  • Vendredi du 5ème semaine de carême
  • Vera Uwaila Omozuwa
  • vérité et réconciliation
  • Virgin Mary
  • Viri probati
  • Virtual spirituality
  • vocation
  • vulnérabilité et fragilité
  • War
  • Weaponization of religion
  • women's right defense
  • Word of life
  • World Bank
  • WorldNews
  • xenophobia
  • xenophobic attack
  • Yoda
  • You should be Afraid
  • young engineer
  • Young missionaries
  • Youth
  • Youth Corps
  • Youth ministry
  • Zacharie Bellefleur
  • Zainab Usman
  • Zarathoustra
  • Zarathoustra chrétien
  • Zarathustra
    •   Back
    • Theology

Leave a Reply

Popular Posts

  • All Post
  • #BaseCôtesNord
  • #Benjamins_Canada
  • #BokoHaram
  • #BringBackOurGirls
  • #Buhari
  • #Burundi
  • #CatholicChurch
  • #Developpement et Paix
  • #Einstein
  • #EWTN
  • #FirstNations
  • #FourthSundayofLent
  • #Funeral
  • #Gar_right
  • #HumanRight
  • #Igbo
  • #IIT_Lagos
  • #Industrial_training
  • #Insecurity
  • #iPad
  • #iPhone
  • #IsisParisAttack
  • #JEG
  • #Justice
  • #Kateri_Tekakwitha
  • #Kenya
  • #Kenyata
  • #Lent
  • #Mani-Utenam
  • #Mbaka
  • #NationalCatholicReporters
  • #NigerianElection
  • #NigeriaYouths
  • #Nkurunziza
  • #NnamdiKanu
  • #Nutashkuan
  • #Obama
  • #ObyEzekwesili
  • #OMI
  • #OMIQUEBEC
  • #Oration
  • #PierreNkurunziza
  • #Pray4Nigeria
  • #PrayforParis
  • #Premières_Nations.
  • #Putsch
  • #Relativité
  • #ReligioninNigeria
  • #Religious_Life
  • #Science
  • #Storage
  • #Technology
  • #Terrorism
  • #ThéoriedeRelativité
  • #Trial/Error
  • #Uashat
  • #Vide
  • #VoteWisely
  • #YoungOblates
  • abuja
  • Africa
  • African Catholicism
  • African Christianity
  • African Classics
  • African Literature
  • African mythologie
  • African philosophy
  • African Poetry
  • African Saints
  • African theologians
  • Afrika
  • Air Canada Canada
  • ALI Nnaemeka Cornelius
  • all saint day
  • Amadioha
  • American dream
  • Americanah
  • Amerindiens
  • Amour
  • Anansi
  • Angels
  • Anges
  • Annunciation
  • Antananarivo
  • antipodes existentiels
  • Apostles
  • APTN
  • Arab spring
  • Archbishop Kaigama
  • Aso rock
  • Assassination of clergies. National Catholic Bishops Conferences of Cameroon
  • Asusu Igbo
  • Athletics
  • Atikamek
  • Autochtones
  • Autocton
  • avenir de la vie religieuse
  • Away (TV Series)
  • Baba Suwe
  • Babcock University
  • Bahamas
  • Bakassi Penisula
  • Balaraba Ramat
  • Baptême
  • Baptême du Seigneur
  • Baptism
  • Barack Obama
  • Béatitude
  • Benedict XVI
  • Benny Hinn
  • Betrayal of Jesus
  • Biafra
  • Biafra war
  • Biafran Civil War
  • Biafran-Nigerian war
  • biodiversité
  • Birthday
  • Bishop Badejo
  • Bishop John Ayah
  • Bishop Sebastianappan Singaroyan
  • Bishops' synods
  • Black Catholics
  • Black Child
  • Black identity
  • Black lives matter
  • Black lives matters
  • Black Panther
  • Black Poetry
  • Black theology
  • Black Time
  • Blackface
  • Blackout
  • Blessed Iwene Tansi
  • Boko-Haram
  • Boko-Haram victims
  • bomb blast
  • bombs
  • Bonjour
  • Brownface
  • Brutalité policière
  • burying the dead
  • Business
  • cabals
  • Cafeteria
  • Calliope
  • Cameroon
  • Cameroun
  • Canada
  • Canadian_Church
  • canotage
  • Capital purnishment
  • Cardinal George
  • Cardinal Sarah
  • Caster Semenya
  • catéchèse
  • Catéchètes
  • Catechism
  • Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria
  • Catholic Church
  • Catholic church and racism
  • Catholic Diocese of Salem
  • Catholic theology
  • Catholicism
  • Catholicity in Igbo land
  • CBCN
  • CBN
  • CCBI
  • Celibacy
  • Célibat des prêtres
  • CENC
  • Centre Afrika
  • Changement climatique
  • Chigozie Obioma
  • Chika Ezeanya
  • Chika Unigwe
  • Child abuse
  • Child soldier
  • Children
  • Children and Mission
  • Children's Corner
  • Children's Psychology
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Christian gathering
  • Christian poetry
  • Christmas poem
  • Chrstian showmanship
  • Church services
  • Church Social Development
  • Churches in Nigeria
  • City poetry
  • Civil union
  • Clergy Sexual Abuses
  • Clericalism
  • climat du Nord
  • Coat of arm
  • Cœur d’enfant
  • Collective Consciousness
  • Colonisation
  • coloriage
  • Communauté de foi
  • Communauté religieuse
  • communauté vivante
  • Communautés culturelles
  • Community developement
  • Community life
  • Community School
  • Conclave
  • Conference Épiscopale du Cameroon
  • Conférence Épiscopale du Tchad
  • confinement solitaire
  • Conflict de génération
  • Conseil des églises canadiennes
  • Contercultural revolution
  • Contextual theology
  • Corona Virus
  • Corona Virus et la foi
  • corporal works of mercy
  • Corruption
  • Corruption in Nigeria
  • Côte-Nord
  • Cotes d'Ivoire
  • counterculture
  • Couple
  • Covid Skepticism
  • Covid Skeptics
  • COVID19
  • Covid19andFaith
  • COVID19inNigeria
  • Covid19Poetry
  • Creativity in mission
  • Cross
  • Croyance Chrétienne
  • Crucifix
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Cultural resilience
  • Culture
  • Culture of Rape
  • Daily reflection
  • Daily reflections
  • Dambisa Moyo
  • De Gaule
  • Dear Ijeawele
  • Debout
  • Dele Giwa
  • Democracie
  • Democracy
  • Democracy Day Celebration
  • Denis Hurley
  • Denyse Mostert
  • Desjardins
  • Devaluation
  • dialogue
  • dimanche de la parole de Dieu
  • Diplomacy fo Peace
  • Disciples of Emmaus
  • Discipleship
  • Disney World
  • Domination
  • domination occidentale
  • Dorian
  • Douleur d’enfantements
  • Dr Stella Emmanuel
  • Earth Day
  • Easter
  • Easter message
  • ecclésiologie
  • Ecclesiology
  • Ecology
  • ecopoésie
  • Ecumenism
  • Education
  • Église
  • église et mission
  • Église presbytérienne
  • Ekuanitshit
  • Ekuantshit
  • El Rufai
  • emekalison
  • ENDSARS
  • enigma
  • Enugu
  • Enugu-Ezike
  • Epiphany
  • Équilibre mental
  • Est du Québec
  • etc.
  • étoile filante
  • être église
  • Évangélisation
  • existence
  • exploitation
  • Eze Okechukwu
  • facebook
  • Faith
  • Faith and COVID19
  • FaithAndFear
  • Fake miracles
  • famille mazenodienne
  • Famille Myriam
  • Family Church
  • Family ritual
  • Fanaticism
  • Farming ritual
  • fatalité
  • Father figure
  • Fear
  • Feminism
  • Femmes autochtones
  • Fête des mères
  • Fêtes des mères
  • Fiat
  • Fishing
  • Focolare
  • Foi et Turbulences
  • Font baptismal
  • Forbes
  • Fr Joseph Ntumba Maboyi
  • Fr Mbaka
  • France-Afrique
  • Francophonie
  • Frank Santucci
  • Fraternalisation virtuelle
  • Fraternisation virtuelle
  • frein culturel
  • frère soleil
  • Fuel Subsidy
  • Fuel Subsidy removal
  • Gadhaffi
  • Gbagbo
  • Gender discrimination
  • Genocide of India's daughter
  • genre discrimination
  • George Floyd
  • Giant Nation
  • GirlsLivesMatter
  • Globalization
  • Glorious Cross
  • Good Friday
  • Goodluck Jonathan
  • guerre
  • guerre économique
  • Hajj
  • Handicaps
  • Happiness
  • harponage
  • Hassan KUKAH
  • hero
  • Heureux
  • Hilary Swank
  • Histoire de l’Église
  • Hiver
  • Holy Cross
  • Homecoming
  • Homeless Babies
  • Homily
  • Hommage
  • hope poetry
  • Hope Uzodimma
  • House Collapses in lagos
  • Human right
  • Hurricane
  • Hydro-Québec
  • Hydroxychloroquine
  • I am George Floyd
  • I.A.A.F.
  • Iconography
  • Ife
  • Igbo Cosmology
  • Igbo Culture
  • Igbo girls
  • Igbo language
  • Igbo women
  • Immigrant
  • Imo State
  • Imperialisme
  • Imperialisme etc
  • In the name of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit
  • Inculturation
  • India
  • indigenous spirituality
  • Industrial Institute of Technology
  • infant baptism
  • Innu
  • innu mission
  • Innu poetry
  • innu-aiamun
  • Innu-aimun
  • innushkuess
  • Institut Tshakapesh
  • Interculturalité
  • interculturality
  • Interfaith dialogue
  • International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace
  • Intersectional theology
  • intersectionality
  • Isaiah 55
  • Islam
  • Jean Vanier
  • Jeoy Velasco
  • Jesus
  • Jesusthustra
  • Jesustraphilia
  • Jesuthoustra
  • John 18:33-40
  • Joint Mars Initiative
  • Jos
  • Journée Africaine
  • Joyce Echaquan
  • Jun Mercado
  • Justice and Peace
  • Justice For Uwa
  • Justice sociale
  • Justin Trudeau
  • Kagame
  • kakatshat
  • Kanatamat
  • Kelvin Ugwuh
  • Khiona
  • Kola Nut
  • Kwanzaa
  • l’Arche
  • L’Église
  • La lutte autochtone
  • La messe
  • la neige
  • La Police au Nord du Québec
  • La sûreté du Québec
  • Lagos Construction Sector
  • Langue innue
  • le nord
  • Le Seigneur vient
  • Leadership
  • les vieux anges
  • Liberation theology
  • linguistic science
  • Literature
  • littérature autochtone
  • Louis Studer
  • Lourdes
  • Lumumba
  • lutte contre la drogue
  • Madiba
  • makushan
  • Malala
  • Malawi
  • Mallam Abba Kyari
  • Manifestation of God
  • manipulation
  • Maniutenam
  • Mara phone
  • Marcel TOWA
  • Maria Fearing
  • mariage
  • Marie
  • Mariologie
  • Marriage
  • Marriage in Nigeria
  • Marriage proposal
  • Mathieu André
  • Matimekosh
  • Matimekush-Lac John
  • Maya Angelou
  • Mère d’espérance
  • Message de Noël
  • Mgr Balla
  • Mgr Jean Marie Benoît Balla
  • Mgr Yves Plumey
  • Mgrs Fortunatus Neachukwu
  • Michel Hébert
  • Millet Farming
  • Mingan
  • Minor Seminary
  • mishta-shipu
  • Mission
  • mission 3.0
  • Mission autochtones
  • mission guidelines
  • Mission Innu
  • Mission Innue
  • missionaire
  • Missionaries Oblats
  • missionary
  • Missionary challenges
  • missionary letter
  • Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
  • Missionary of Saint Paul
  • MissionInnue
  • missionnaire
  • Missionnaire noirs
  • Missionnaires
  • Mitt Romney
  • Mois d’histoire des noirs
  • Mother Earth
  • mourning
  • MSP
  • My country
  • my father
  • Naija
  • Naija Poetry
  • Naira
  • Naskapi Cap
  • Nathaniel Chukwuebuka
  • Nation innue
  • National Anthem
  • National Pledge
  • Native Princess
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Neocolonization
  • Netflixing
  • New Evangelization
  • New York City
  • NewsWatch Magazine
  • Ngozi Ezeanya
  • Nietzsche
  • Nigeria
  • Nigeria men and rape
  • Nigerian Catholic Church
  • Nigerian Catholicism
  • Nigerian Catholics
  • Nigerian Christian Persecution
  • Nigerian Church
  • Nigerian Civil War
  • Nigerian Economy
  • Nigerian election
  • Nigerian female students
  • Nigerian Flag
  • Nigerian Government
  • Nigerian Martyrs
  • Nigerian poetry
  • Nigerian police
  • Nigerian Police Force
  • Nigerian politics
  • Nigerian Society
  • Nigerian Transport companies
  • Nigerian women
  • Nigerianleadership
  • Nkruma
  • nkuzi nke okwukwe
  • Nnaemeka Ali
  • Nneka
  • Nok
  • NoMassInTimeOfCovid19
  • Nord
  • nordicité
  • Northern poetry
  • Northern Quebec
  • NoToDrug
  • Notre-Dame des Douleurs
  • Nsukka
  • nuitshimit
  • Nuns
  • NYSC
  • o.m.i
  • O’Bomsawin
  • Oblate
  • Oblate missions
  • oblates
  • OblatesVoices
  • Oblats
  • occupy Nigeria
  • OCH
  • Ode
  • Okonjo-Iweala
  • Old Angels
  • OMI Cameroun
  • OMI Congo
  • OMI US Province
  • OMICameroun
  • OMIWorld
  • Onaiyekan
  • Online Worshiping
  • Opinion
  • Oraison
  • Orisha
  • Ouatara
  • Our Lady of Sorrow
  • Pachamama
  • paean
  • Palaver Conversation
  • Panafricanism
  • Pandemics
  • Papal Audience
  • Pape François
  • Parish
  • Parle du jour
  • paroisse
  • Parole de Dieu
  • Pasteur
  • Pastoral
  • pastoral creativity
  • pastorale
  • pastorale jeunesse
  • Paul Biya
  • Peace
  • peace poetry
  • Peace resolution
  • peacebuilding
  • pèlerin
  • pentecostalism
  • pentecostalism and our culture
  • périphéries existentielles
  • Philippines
  • Philosophy
  • philosophy african
  • pidgin poetry
  • Pierre Nkurunziza
  • PIN 10-DAY POETRY CHALLENGE MAY 2019
  • Place Tahir
  • plan nord
  • Pocahontas
  • Poem
  • Poème
  • Poème religieux
  • Poésie
  • Poésie autochtones
  • Poésie religieuse
  • PoesieCovid19
  • PoésieNordique
  • poète militant
  • Poetry
  • police brutality
  • Political defection
  • Political Poetry
  • politics
  • pope
  • Pope Francis
  • Port Harcourt
  • portage
  • Post Covid19 Church
  • post-covid19 mission
  • post-covid19ienne
  • potter
  • Pottery
  • Prayer
  • Prejudice. Literature.
  • prêtre missionnaire
  • Prière
  • Prière à Marie
  • Prières à Marie
  • priesthood
  • Princesse indienne
  • Printemps
  • Prosperity gospel
  • Prosperity preachers
  • Provincial Superior
  • Psaume de la creation
  • Québec
  • race humaine
  • Racial prejudice
  • Racism
  • Racism in Amrica
  • Racisme Systèmique
  • Radio Ville Marie
  • RapistsAreCriminals
  • Ratzinger
  • rebelion
  • rebellion
  • reconciliation
  • Religieux
  • Religion
  • Religious Crisis
  • Religious Diologue
  • religious proliferation. sects
  • Religious sisters
  • Return to Spirit
  • Risana Nafeek
  • Rita Mestokosho
  • ritual
  • Rivière Mingan
  • Rivière Saint Laurent
  • Rivière-Nipissis
  • Robert Mugabe
  • Rochas
  • RTC
  • Rudoph Okonkwo
  • Ruwanda
  • Rwanda
  • Sacraments
  • Sacred Signs
  • Sahara Reporters
  • Saint Eugene de Mazenod
  • Sainte Africaine
  • Samurai
  • Sarkozy
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Schefferville
  • Sede Vacante
  • Semaine d'unité chrétienne
  • Senghor
  • Sept-Îles
  • Série Télévisée
  • SexForGrade
  • Seyi Rhodes
  • Shango
  • Sharia law
  • Sign of the cross
  • Signes baptismaux
  • Sisters_in_spirit
  • Skidoo
  • Slavery
  • Smokey mountain
  • Social Justice
  • Social theology
  • SocialMediaBill
  • Society
  • sociological vs anthropological problems
  • sociology
  • Solitary confinement
  • Sous-developement
  • South Africa
  • South African Apartheid Heroes
  • South Afrika
  • Spiritual paternalism
  • Spiritualité autochtone
  • Spiritualité virtuelle
  • Sri Lanka
  • St Eugene De Mazenod nous parle
  • St Martin's Parish Ihiteowerre
  • Startup
  • Stations of the Cross
  • Ste Joséphine Bahkita
  • stéréotype
  • Suicide
  • Sultan of Sokoto
  • Sunday Réflection
  • Sunday reflections
  • Sureté du Québec
  • Tambour
  • The 2013 Nigerian Budget
  • the Church
  • The heart of a child
  • Thé Salada
  • Theresa Mamah
  • Thinking Black
  • ThisdayNigeria
  • Tourisme Sept-Îles
  • Toxicomanie
  • Troisième Dimanche de Carême
  • Trudeau
  • Tshakapesh
  • Tshiuetin
  • U.N.
  • Ubuntu
  • Ugbaike
  • Ujamaa
  • Umura Primary School
  • UN
  • Uncategorized
  • Unconditional love
  • une journée parfaite
  • Union Africaine
  • US Presidential race
  • Vacant seat
  • Vatican
  • Vatican. Catholic Church
  • Vendredi du 5ème semaine de carême
  • Vera Uwaila Omozuwa
  • vérité et réconciliation
  • Virgin Mary
  • Viri probati
  • Virtual spirituality
  • vocation
  • vulnérabilité et fragilité
  • War
  • Weaponization of religion
  • women's right defense
  • Word of life
  • World Bank
  • WorldNews
  • xenophobia
  • xenophobic attack
  • Yoda
  • You should be Afraid
  • young engineer
  • Young missionaries
  • Youth
  • Youth Corps
  • Youth ministry
  • Zacharie Bellefleur
  • Zainab Usman
  • Zarathoustra
  • Zarathoustra chrétien
  • Zarathustra
    •   Back
    • Theology

Newsletter

JOIN THE FAMILY!

Stay up to date

You have been successfully Subscribed! Please Connect to Mailchimp first
Edit Template

© 2023 Alisonomi | The brain behind iPriest