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Dr Sacha Hepburn who is a historian of modern Africa at Birkbeck, University of London speaks at length, among other things, about the effects of racialized constructions of African childhood
on the occasion of the International Day of the African Child. She specialises in histories of gender, age, work, and the environment, and she is the author of Home Economics: Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa (2022) and a number of published essays.

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Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in The Catholic Post newspaper, London May 2022 Edition This is the hour,Man’s animosity at its peakIs cast on him who loved him mostEvil it’s will sturdy, blind, highDarkness savoured for lightDeath haggled for lifeA hate in turn for loveThat we be saved from same. For a token the traitor’d give a peckGod’s worth petty, shameful coinsIsolated thence thriceTill the cock criesHe’s alone, this man of peaceReduced, turned scene for sinners He’s disgraced, though crownedScourged, pierced; mockedBy all, aliens, veterans and ladsPriests, troops, dukes and crooks But, at this hallowed hourIt is all finishedThe…

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The ten lepers were not healed instantly but by a disposition of faith and a willful act of obedience. Jesus asked them to go and see the priests, and they were healed on their way (Luke 17:11-19). They had choice to either go or not.

This makes me think that every human weakness, every leprosy each one struggles with has an antidote, which is faith.

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