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5 Fév
Célestin GAIDAI * Nous louons Dieu pour nos valeurs culturelles – Célestin GAIDAI * We praise God for our cultural values
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21 Nov
Valorisation des langues africaines au service du développement durable
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L’Afrique est riche en valeurs culturelles et linguistiques. Elle compte en son sein 2 154 langues. Malheureusement, l’anglais, le français, l’arabe, le portugais et l’espagnol dominent encore le paysage académique, plus de soixante ans après l’indépendance. Que faire pour changer la donne ? L’Institut Universitaire de Développement International (IUDI) est convaincu que le développement du continent africain passe inéluctablement par la valorisation des langues et cultures africaines. Or, sur ce terrain, et malgré les imperfections relevées çà et là, les missionnaires chrétiens ont fait un excellent travail développant des alphabets pour des langues africaines en rédigeant des livres et brochures utiles pour l’enseignement, la santé publique, la formation professionnelle. En collaboration avec des Africains, ils ont aussi appris nos langues et traduit la Bible ou des portions des Saintes Ecritures dans diverses langues du terroir. Il revient à la nouvelle génération d’Africains, sans aucune discrimination religieuse ou ethnique, d’évaluer le chemin parcouru et de bâtir là-dessus pour redonner aux langues africaines ses lettres de noblesse de la maternelle jusqu’au niveau de l’enseignement supérieur. Un Bantou, par exemple, devrait être en mesure de soutenir sa thèse de doctorat en langue bantoue sans transiter par une langue étrangère. L’IUDI s’y attelle et exige déjà que ses étudiants et étudiantes rédigent les résumés de leurs mémoires et thèses dans leurs langues maternelles. Bien plus encore, il travaille avec ses agences d’accréditation pour que, dans un proche avenir, la rédaction des mémoires et des thèses puisse aussi se faire dans les langues africaines, pourvu que les membres du jury aient les qualifications académiques nécessaires et soient en mesure de lire, comprendre et évaluer le travail en question.
Mais, l’IUDI ne veut pas s’enfermer dans le silo académique puisqu’il se veut aussi un mouvement de développement transformationnel. Or, la religion et la langue jouent un rôle incontournable dans le développement durable. Aussi l’IUDI lance-t-il un concours annuel de lecture et de mémorisation de textes rédigés ou traduits dans les langues africaines. Un avis formel de concours sera annoncé très prochainement sur Contributions Africaines. En attendant, veuillez affûter vos talents linguistiques. Ci-dessous, le Président de l’IUDI donne l’exemple en lisant le 1er chapitre du livre de Proverbes en mafa.
L’Institut Universitaire de Développement International (IUDI)
University of International Development
Africa is rich in cultural and linguistic values. It has 2,154 languages. Unfortunately, English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, and Spanish dominate the African academic landscape more than 60 years after independence. What can fellow Africans do to change the situation? The University Institute for International Development (IUDI) thinks that the development of the African continent inevitably requires the enhancement of African languages and cultures. However, in this field, and despite the imperfections noted here and there, Christian missionaries have done an excellent job developing alphabets for African languages and translating books and pamphlets useful for teaching, public health, vocational training, and translating the Bible or portions of the Bible into various local languages. It is up to the new generation of Africans, without any religious or ethnic discrimination, to assess the progress made and build on it to restore African languages to their former glory from kindergarten to higher education. A Bantu, for example, should defend his doctoral thesis in the Bantu language without going through a foreign language. IUDI is aiming at it. It already requires its students to write abstracts of their dissertations and theses in their mother tongues. Much more, it works with its accreditation agencies so that, soon, students will have the option of writing their dissertations, and theses can in any African language, provided that the jury members have the necessary academic qualifications and can read, understand, and understand and evaluate the work in question.
Nevertheless, IUDI does not want to lock itself into the academic silo since it wants to be a transformational development movement. Religion plays an essential role in sustainable development. It, therefore, launches an annual competition for reading and memorizing texts written or translated into African languages. A formal notice of competition will be announced very soon on Contributions Africaines. In the meantime, please each African is kindly requested to hone his or her language skills. Below, the IUDI President sets an example by reading the 1st chapter of Proverbs in the Mafa language.
The University Institute for International Development (IUDI) University of International Development https://iudi.org/
Prof. Moussa Bongoyok
20 Nov
The Prayer of Habakkuk
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- In what ways COVID-19 has impacted the local economy and even spiritual life negatively?
- What do we learn from Habakkuk in such challenging times and how do we apply these lessons to our individual and collective lives?
- Joy must characterize the life of a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. If there is no joy in your daily life, please watch as there is certainly a spiritual leak. Ask yourself these diagnostic questions: Am I complaining often? Do I have the tendency to blame others for almost everything? Do I talk to myself negatively? Do I dwell in my past successes or failures? Do I resist to change? Do I want to please everybody (which by way is am impossible task)? Do I doubt God’s wonderful plan for my life? Do I neglect my Bible study, church attendance, and prayer life? I am hiding to commit sin or life my life like an ungodly person without a respectful fear of God? Am I jealous? Am I envious? Am I afraid of what will happen to me given my current life circumstances? Bring these issues to the Lord in prayer and your will enjoy His peace and joy.
- Prof. Moussa Bongoyok
9 Nov
The prayer life of Daniel: lessons for a victorious Christian life today
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“It is our Heavenly Father who pilots our lives. Despite the turbulences of life, everything will be fine.”Moussa Bongoyok
10 Oct
Kwame Nkrumah – Revue Philosophique Bantu -Septembre 2021 No 5
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“Kwame Nkrumah nous attire depuis notre jeunesse. Ses écrits philosophiques et ses actions politiques continuent de nourrir la conscience philosophique et la politique africaine. En parcourant quelques ouvrages et thèses universitaires consacrés à Nkrumah, nous sommes surpris de constater qu’on le réduit souvent à sa dimension politique d’anti-néocolonia- liste et de Panafricaniste. Or, Nkrumah est d’abord et avant tout un philosophe. C’est à partir de la philosophie qu’il pense la politique de la libération, de la construction et du développement des États-Unis d’Afrique. On ne peut donc pas com- prendre ses théories et sa pratique politiques sans passer par la connaissance de son architectonique philosophique.” Prof. Daniel DIA MBWANGI DIAFWILA, Vice-Président chargé des relations internationales et de la coopération académique au sein de l’Institut Universitaire de Développement International (IUDI)
http://www.lajourneedumanuscrit.com/Revue-Philosophique-Bantu19 Sep
Orality in African Context: Learning Style & Pedagogy 
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13 Jan
HELE Solange: Call for unity, love, and the preservation of cultural values – Appel à l’unité, à l’amour et à la conservation des valeurs culturelles
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22 Mai
In tribute to Ravi Zacharias (May 26 1946- May 19 2020): a very gifted apologist
Posted by bongoyok in action, activite, Bible, chretiens, Christian life, Dieu, human relations, Institut Universitaire de Développement International, IUDI, mission, relations humaines, religions, resolution de conflits, sagesse, Savoir vivre, spirituality, theologie, theology, vie chretienne. Tagged: apologete, apologetics, apologetique, apologist, debat public, public debate, Ravi Zacharias, RZIM. Leave a comment
15 Mar
A Conversation with Condoleezza Rice
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28 Fév
WHO WILL LIVE FOR THOSE WHO NO LONGER HAVE HEADS? A shout in the desert of International Community
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You didn’t hear… or did you hide willingly under the bed of abstraction?
Maybe you did hear about Boko Haram and other terrorist movements in action…
But, you see, your geography professor told you as did your musician,
With all the calm and seriousness of an academician,
That Kousseri, Maroua, Mora, Tourou, Moskota, Koza, Ouzal, Mozogo,
And other localities or infrahuman countries must go,
Because their humanity index is so low, and,
They are located on an unknown planet, the land of tomorrow.
Why worry about the future
While one calmly drinks today’s culture?
Maybe you didn’t see what is happening on social media as your soul became a taro…
Because, above all, you must set your economic priorities right to beat the antihero
And accumulate as much power and things as you can carry in your empty barrow.
Your business professor told you so, with his academic sombrero.
Your financial advisor is such a genius so different from the harrow
That you gather things, things and more things, and the great dinero.
You eat power, power and more power over bones without a marrow.
Aren’t they mere keys to your success today and tomorrow?
Your eyes can’t see while you dream to be the next pharaoh
And, after all, your neighbor is just a dried arrow!
Who will cry for those who no longer have heads?
Who will become a shelter for those who no longer have beds?
Who will eat for those who can no longer smell the odor of fresh breads?
Who will bring joyous colors to lives painted in multiple reds?
Who will tell Europe, America, Asia and others, that Boko Haram spreads
Faster and deeper than the swiftest fighters and meds?
Who will act? Who will dig? Who will lovingly address the roots
Instead of relying solely on boots?
Oh! I wish you and I were the recovered triumphant shouts of the voiceless!
Oh! I wish you and I were the beautiful tears of the tearless!
Oh! I wish you and I were the real wealth of the resourceless!
Oh! I wish you and I were the reconstructed ramparts of the powerless!
Oh! I wish you and I were the regained smiles of the hopeless!
Oh! I wish you and I were the lost but found face of the faceless!
Oh! I wish you and I were the living image of the divine rock for the baseless!
Oh! I wish you and I were the real value of lives so priceless!
Regardless of our religious backgrounds, we are all humans;
Would you and I actively navigate against the currents and stop treating others as subhumans?
Moussa Bongoyok, PhD
Professor of Intercultural Studies and Holistic Development
President of Institut Universitaire de Développement International (IUDI)