WORLD FAMILY OF RADIO MARIA
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Africa: the continent of hope
A people who never cease hoping for a better life but, above all, hoping in God because their thirst for Love is still so great.
Paolo Taffuri WFRM Africa Coordinator
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n the international scene, Africa is becoming an economic interlocutor for the great world powers. Africa is a new market, where consumption is increasing day by day. It is a market where the great economic powers do not want to lose their slice of the cake. Africa is the continent of hope for those world economies that are growing and want to go beyond their saturated markets. Africa is the continent of hope because Africans themselves never stop hoping. Although living conditions are among the lowest in the world, Africans continue to hope for a better life, but above all they continue to hope in God. Africans have a great thirst for God. Africa has been little involved in the ideologies
that have characterized the twentieth century. It is true that it has been tragically affected: the division due to the Cold War and the formations by both sides served as a backdrop to the real wars for the domination of resourcerich territories, but it has been an influence by reflection. Since the ideologies coming from the West have only created a faรงade, without any true inculturation, it is true that you can still find persons in Africa who, not having been indoctrinated, remain much more genuine. One can more easily find the essentiality of the human being. It is in our essentiality, among those needs that the human person has, that there is also contact and relationship with the divine. For the vast majority of Africans, it is normal to turn to God every day in their daily lives: to thank him
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