Author Basile Sede Noujio's new book "Comparing Cultures and Religions in a Postmodern World" is a refutation of Hegelian disdain for African philosophical contributions

CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Basile Sede Noujio is a Catholic priest and Cameroon native who earned a PhD in Philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome and is now serving as pastor of Our Lady of Consolation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has completed his new book "Comparing Cultures and Religions in a Postmodern World: Joseph Ki-Zerbo versus Jacques Maritain": a scholarly discussion of the ideas of the African historian, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, and the Thomistic Christian ideas of Jacques Maritain and beacon of hope for African thinkers in a world in which the culture, history, and value of African philosophical thought seems relegated to insignificance in the name of postmodernism.

Culture and religion are basic to every human society, and the history of a people always sustains her cultural and religious values. We decided to use the African culture and religion as our departing point for the mere fact that Africa is generally considered as the cradle of civilization, and it is a very historic and controversial continent. However, while examining some prominent world cultures and religions (in a comparative manner), our major focus is on the Christian-Thomistic culture/religion as illustrated by Jacques Maritain in comparison with the African culture/religion as expressed by Joseph Ki-Zerbo. Both thinkers consider that in the midst of multiculturalism and globalization, authentic humanism or personalism that is based on the sacredness of the human person should be endorsed as a new civilization or culture. Only such a culture can make the future of humankind essentially meaningful and interesting.

Shifting from all mediocre standards of culture which are based on relativism, supported by postmodern thinkers, there is a need to get back to the original culture that is based on authentic and objective standards. The major difference that we noticed between the Thomistic-Christian ideas and those of the Africans is that while Jacques Maritain appeals for Thomistic humanism to grow from the formal classrooms and the books into the streets and the fields, Ki-Zerbo explains that African humanism has always existed in the streets and in the fields; it might never even have existed in the books and in the classrooms. The global reaction toward the killing of George Floyd in USA, defying all fears of the COVID-19, intensifies the argument that a culture which qualifies one race as being superior over another has to be reexamined and radically eradicated and replaced by authentic humanism.

Published by Page Publishing, Basile Sede Noujio's engrossing book is an illuminating discussion of philosophy, culture, and race in America and around the world.

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