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Known Beyond Knowing

December 4, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
7 min read
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The idea that God knows us better than we know ourselves may seem like a comforting religious claim at first. It describes a compassionate, all-knowing presence holding a fragmented map of who we are, a map we can only read in...

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Educating the African Soul: Catholic Imaginaries, Political Theologies, and the Future of Learning

December 4, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
44 min read
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Abstract Catholic education in East Africa has made a deep yet complex impact on African societies, shaping moral and social values while also causing cultural and psychological dislocation. This article critically examines...

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Youth Mental Health and the Digital Future of Work in Urban Kenya

November 24, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
22 min read
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Abstract Urban Kenyan youth face a critical moment: a digital economy is rapidly growing, creating new opportunities for employment (e.g., app-based work, online freelancing, AI data tasks), even as mental health issues among...

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The Psychophilosophical Puzzle of Infidelity in Kenya: Love, Sex, and Loyalty

November 24, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
32 min read
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ntroduction In Kenya today, the dating scene is characterized by a mix of excitement and anxiety. Viral “loyalty test” videos show couples swapping phones in public, only to reveal secret flirtations and betrayals. Often...

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Philosopher-King or Myth Master? Plato’s Noble Lie and President William Ruto’s Rhetoric in Kenya

November 24, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
29 min read
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Introduction In Plato’s Republic, Socrates proposes that the ideal city be founded on a “noble lie,”  a grand myth told by the rulers to foster social harmony and justify the state’s hierarchy[1][2]. This myth...

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Between Flesh and Spirit: Male Sexual Desire in African Philosophy

August 23, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
45 min read
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Introduction Human sexual desire has long been a focus of philosophical and cultural discussion. The male sexual drive, in particular, raises key questions about human nature, psychology, and spirituality. What triggers desire...

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GRACE FOR REPEAT OFFENDERS

July 16, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
12 min read
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We human beings, said Søren Kierkegaard, are “a riddle to ourselves,” a claim that feels painfully accurate each time we trip over our own resolutions and discover that grace is waiting exactly where we fell. The Bible...

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A Requiem for the Unsilenced: Kenya’s Gen Z and the Farce of Democracy

June 22, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
5 min read
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One year ago, Kenya’s parliament burned, not with the slow, bureaucratic smolder of corruption, but with the raw, unfiltered rage of a generation pushed to the brink. The Finance Bill of 2024 was the spark, but the kindling had...

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Hope Beyond Abductions: A Catholic Theodicy for Modern Kenya

June 16, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
35 min read
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Introduction Why does an all-good, all-powerful God allow evil to scar our world? This timeless problem of evil haunts believers and skeptics alike, and it takes on urgent poignancy in Kenya’s current political unrest. In...

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The Ontology of True Belonging: Divine Encampment and the Existential Wilderness

June 16, 2025
by Bernard Omukuyia
5 min read
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True belonging is neither a geographical location nor a social construct; it is an existential state of being, a spiritual homecoming fashioned not by human hands but by the divine act of “pitching a tent” among us...

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