David *Objection* Ngong
@profngong.bsky.social
Scholar of Religions in Africa. Author of *Senghor's Eucharist* (https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481317795/senghors-eucharist/ 2023). Africa Section Editor, Religion Compass. Research: https://stillman.academia.edu/DavidNgong
So, I make these brief videos for the general public. Check out my YouTube page and share it if you like them. Also, subscribe.
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Do Africans Worship God? Part I
YouTube video by Prof. Ngong's Ordinary Thoughts
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August 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
So, I make these brief videos for the general public. Check out my YouTube page and share it if you like them. Also, subscribe.
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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!!
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May 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!!
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai
"A real evil should not be fought against at the cost of greater misery."
~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"
~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"
May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"A real evil should not be fought against at the cost of greater misery."
~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"
~ Pope Paul VI, "Popularum Progresso"
"Admission to Africana studies, Asian studies, data analytics, disability studies, Middle East studies, philosophy, religious studies, Spanish and women’s and gender studies programs has been suspended starting with the 2025-26 school year...."
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April 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Admission to Africana studies, Asian studies, data analytics, disability studies, Middle East studies, philosophy, religious studies, Spanish and women’s and gender studies programs has been suspended starting with the 2025-26 school year...."
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Good morning. ☁️
“In worlds such as ours and Paul's where power is manifested in self-assertion, acquisition, and domination, Christ reveals that God's power, indeed the triune nature, is made known to the world in the act of self-emptying...
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“In worlds such as ours and Paul's where power is manifested in self-assertion, acquisition, and domination, Christ reveals that God's power, indeed the triune nature, is made known to the world in the act of self-emptying...
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April 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good morning. ☁️
“In worlds such as ours and Paul's where power is manifested in self-assertion, acquisition, and domination, Christ reveals that God's power, indeed the triune nature, is made known to the world in the act of self-emptying...
1/x
“In worlds such as ours and Paul's where power is manifested in self-assertion, acquisition, and domination, Christ reveals that God's power, indeed the triune nature, is made known to the world in the act of self-emptying...
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"tribes did not exist until constructed as such during the relatively recent expansion of European empires"
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Rethinking ‘Tribalism’
Learning from Indigenous ways of knowing and being might help all sides of the political spectrum to become less polarized and rancorous. By Devaka Premawardhana
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April 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"tribes did not exist until constructed as such during the relatively recent expansion of European empires"
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"Democracy may bend, it may get bruised, but what 250 years has shown is it will not break."
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April 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"Democracy may bend, it may get bruised, but what 250 years has shown is it will not break."
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"The CEOs of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met privately with Trump on Monday...he was told that shelves will be empty,” a source told the outlet [Axios]."
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Terrified Trump Flees Tariffs War After CEOs’ ‘Empty Shelves’ Warning
The president sounded much more conciliatory after he was told about the chaos his plans could bring.
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April 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"The CEOs of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met privately with Trump on Monday...he was told that shelves will be empty,” a source told the outlet [Axios]."
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Thrilled to have this paper out!
Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy.
One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍
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One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍
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April 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Thrilled to have this paper out!
V. Y. Mudimbe (1941-2025), baobab of African Studies. He taught us that "Africa" is a product of a "colonial library."
April 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
V. Y. Mudimbe (1941-2025), baobab of African Studies. He taught us that "Africa" is a product of a "colonial library."
It is actually not a commencement address because there is no commencement. It happens a day before the graduation ceremonies and graduates are not required to be there.
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President Donald Trump says he will give University of Alabama commencement address
President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will give the commencement address at The University of Alabama this year. “I have agreed to do the Commencement Address at two really GREAT places, the...
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April 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It is actually not a commencement address because there is no commencement. It happens a day before the graduation ceremonies and graduates are not required to be there.
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The rich and powerful of the world are co-opting the cross of Christ for political gain when they bear none of it. They desecrate the cross of Christ.
April 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The rich and powerful of the world are co-opting the cross of Christ for political gain when they bear none of it. They desecrate the cross of Christ.
It's all good and fine to be for revolution until you discover that the people screwing your life are not at all revolutionaries. They're just doing ordinary stuff that hurt. Then you realize that doing ordinary stuff may look like a revolution.
April 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It's all good and fine to be for revolution until you discover that the people screwing your life are not at all revolutionaries. They're just doing ordinary stuff that hurt. Then you realize that doing ordinary stuff may look like a revolution.
Today is Holy Saturday. Jesus Christ is dead and buried, and the forces of power and evil stand triumphant, mocking the hopes of the weak. But only for a while....
Jesus is buried.
Artwork by Fr. Engelbert Mveng
Jesus is buried.
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April 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today is Holy Saturday. Jesus Christ is dead and buried, and the forces of power and evil stand triumphant, mocking the hopes of the weak. But only for a while....
Jesus is buried.
Artwork by Fr. Engelbert Mveng
Jesus is buried.
Artwork by Fr. Engelbert Mveng
Bonhoeffer at his existential best.
April 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Bonhoeffer at his existential best.
I will never forget how when Paul Biya was shooting at us in 1991 in Cameroon, he was awarded an honorary degree by a university in the United States for being an astute statesman.
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DEGREE TO CAMEROONIAN CHIEF STIRS U-MD. EASTERN SHORE
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April 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I will never forget how when Paul Biya was shooting at us in 1991 in Cameroon, he was awarded an honorary degree by a university in the United States for being an astute statesman.
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Harvard Universty has trained students who have served in all kinds of dictatorships around the world, supporting all kinds of atrocities. Now, their students are serving in the United States' homegrown dictatorship and yanking their tax-exempt status.
April 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Harvard Universty has trained students who have served in all kinds of dictatorships around the world, supporting all kinds of atrocities. Now, their students are serving in the United States' homegrown dictatorship and yanking their tax-exempt status.
This book contains findings of a study on forgiveness carried out among Black and white Christians in Cape Town, South Africa. For Black Christians, forgiveness after apartheid should include economic redistribution. Not so for white Christians.
April 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This book contains findings of a study on forgiveness carried out among Black and white Christians in Cape Town, South Africa. For Black Christians, forgiveness after apartheid should include economic redistribution. Not so for white Christians.
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I've seen a lot of 'if you wanted to collapse higher education in America, this is how you'd do it," and I don't mean to be rude, but that isn't a distant point: this is them literally, explicitly, and actively working to collapse higher education in this country, and doing it because they want to
Nearly a 1,000 student visas invoked by Sec. of State Rubio and counting.
April 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I've seen a lot of 'if you wanted to collapse higher education in America, this is how you'd do it," and I don't mean to be rude, but that isn't a distant point: this is them literally, explicitly, and actively working to collapse higher education in this country, and doing it because they want to
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One man in CECOT "doesn’t even know that his child’s been born," his lawyer said. Another has muscular dystrophy affecting his right arm, per a court filing. The facts fit "every definition of an enforced disappearance under international law," an attorney told me.
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Lawyers Are Sounding The Alarm About Trump Disappearing People
There’s a real risk that hundreds of people sent to a brutal prison camp will never be free.
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April 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
One man in CECOT "doesn’t even know that his child’s been born," his lawyer said. Another has muscular dystrophy affecting his right arm, per a court filing. The facts fit "every definition of an enforced disappearance under international law," an attorney told me.
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There’s a lot going on, but this is still a big deal.
A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture
The critical question of whether the prisoner’s 2007 interrogations could be used at his capital trial has shadowed the case for years.
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April 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
There’s a lot going on, but this is still a big deal.