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Jean-Marc Ela Quotes

1936–2008 Cameroon

Jean-Marc Ela (27 September 1936 – 26 December 2008) was a Cameroonian sociologist and theologian. Working variously as a diocesan priest and a professor, Ela was the author of many books on theology, philosophy, and social sciences in Africa.

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The paradigm of bankruptcy has become the context for every analysis of modern Africa’s economic and social history, with the stress on the blind alleys of what is conventionally termed development.

The cry of the African is none other than the cry of the unfortunate that rises up the moment that western nations loosen their hold on the rope which strangles Africa.

If Christianity seeks to be anything more than an effort to swindle a mass of mystified blacks, the churches of Africa must all join to come to terms with this question.

Then from our cross to his cross rises one and the same clamor, "Eli! Eli! Lema Sabachthani?" (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean-Marc Ela (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.