Community and Societal Development

by Jim Harries

Dr. Harries has lived for many years in an African village using African languages and resources, He sees two implicitly contradictory truths presupposed by Westerners:

1. That today’s Western people’s peculiar history has enabled them to be global trendsetters especially in economics and technology, and

2. That people with different histories are no less capable of doing the same.

He explains his view of the dangers of secularism that he sees resulting in non-Western people being brought into a subservience to things that they do not understand.