A young Indian author invited me on Sunday to make a guest appearance on one of India's top book review sites (no. 15 in India). I am told I shall be published mid-month. I wrote about my discovery of a non-verbal Africa. As a European, I was taught to articulate things. On the one hand, thoughts—on the other hand, feelings. It is more or less expected of us all to express our thoughts accurately, and our feelings precisely. Not so in the Africa that I know. It was a difficult yet charming lesson for me to learn how to read a world where communication is fundamentally different. OBSERVATION: Interestingly, this is true of the Church, too. If one has a mixed European-African diaconate, one has two very different dynamics together.
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