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Vultures and Candles as Metaphors of Leadership Failures in Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu’s The Candles
No full textPoor leadership has unarguably been recognized as a major national question around which many socioeconomic and political problems revolve in Nigeria. It has led to decadence and a squandermania mentality which breeds all sort of vices, mass poverty, absent and decaying infrastructure, kidnapping, agitations, banditry, and all kinds of insurgency. Playwrights, like other social scientists, have continued to interrogate this ugly phenomenon, which make socioeconomic and political development a will-o’-the-wisp in the country. This paper attempts to examine Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu’s TheCandles, especially as they deploy the vulture and the candle, respectively, as metaphors to elucidate the question of leadership failure in the unstable and politically explosive minefield that is Nigeria. The study adopts Clifford Geertz’s thick description approach to interpretation as its methodology. The researchers discovered that self-aggrandizement, incompetence, “firebrigade approach,” poor institutions, lack of meritocracy, blackmail, and violence were the social realities that encumber the flowering of good governance in the country
Spiritual Life of the Christian Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Family
Full text linkThe Asia-Pacific Christian immigrants and non-immigrants have a huge impact on Western Christianity. Therefore, special pastoral care, faith, and spiritual formation should be given to immigrant families so that they can become efficient lay missionaries. Unfortunately, proper faith formation of the lay faithful is lacking in the Church, while by virtue of their baptism, they are also called to witness Christ in the world. The formation and training of Christians in the faith is essential so that as Christ’s disciples, they may become his efficient witnesses in the world. For this reason, Jesus took three years in training and forming his apostles to evangelize the nations (Mark 16:18–19; Matt 10; 28:18–20). Jesus’ formation of the apostles is a paradigm for us. Faith and spiritual formation imply journeying with a disciple along the path of righteousness and way of life of Christ. Every Christian should be properly schooled in the faith and Christ’s way of life to be useful for God’s work of salvation
Preventive Measures Against the Sexual Abuse of Minors and Vulnerable Adults in Pastoral Ministry Today
Full text linkThe current context regarding the efficient protection of minors and the attentiveness to ensure their human and spiritual development, in line with the dignity of the human person, are indispensable parts of the Gospel message. The Church and all her members are called to it. The need for an awareness of preventive measures against the sexual abuse of minors and of the vulnerable in pastoral ministry is of absoluteimportance. This article seeks to raise such an awareness of this crucial topic among the clergy, religious, and lay faithful who are directly or indirectly involved in pastoral ministry in the various dioceses in Asia in particular and other continents in general
Diskarte Lang: Dealing with Operational Challenges in a Philippine City Jail
No full textThe subhuman conditions in Philippine jails and prisons is a pressing concern because of its ill effects in delivery of rehabilitative justice. While many elements are at play, coming from all institutions involved in the justice process, there is a notion that looking into the administrative side of prisons and the role of jail officers oversimplifies the problem and overemphasizes the clout of prison regimes. This study would like to forward an alternative view. Although officers bear authority through their badges, their command over the facility is confronted, challenged, and negotiated by detainees amidst structural deficiencies. Using qualitative methodology and grounded theory, covering data gathered for three and a half years, I discuss officers’ standard routines and techniques in dealing with the order and disorder of jail life. I take the reader toward a custodial venture employed by officers—a route they call “pag-didiskarte” (resourceful strategizing). I conclude with a critical assessment that though “pag-didiskarte” is valued by officers as a permissive relational strategy, it is unsustainable and poses further occupational hazards. I recommend that the country’s jail system can be better managed if officers’ unprioritized, unheard, demonized subjectivities are included in criminal justice development
Beneath the Glitter and Chaos: Philippine Popular Culture and Society
No full textThis paper examines the ways in which popular texts have been perceived in the Philippines and explores the reasons for their denigration in academe for decades. The discussion attempts to show how the events of the late 1960s and 1970s marked a change in the way such texts as films, komiks, and theatrical performances could be studied from a variety of approaches beyond Formalism and Marxism. The paper also proposes ways this field of study can be mined in the classroom as a way of developing critical thinking among students
