4) Nature of Learning – Christian Education acquired a biblical perspective on learning and teaching. We brought a new way of speaking about the commitment to bring every thought, every concept, every theory, every hypothesis, every axiom into submission to the lordship of Jesus Christ. We not only focus on academic education but also make our children believe in God and inculcate moral values that are necessary to live the life worthfully. “In Kenya, even today, we have children and their parents who cannot speak their mother tongues, or the parents know their mother tongues and don’t want their children to know their mother tongue.

They are very happy when they speak English and even happier when their children don’t know their mother tongue. That’s why I call it mental colonization.” “I am fine (with speaking English). After all, I am a distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, in Irvine. So it’s not that I mind English, but I don’t want it to be my primary language, OK? This is how I put it: For me, and for everybody, if you know all the languages of the world, and you don’t know your mother tongue, that’s enslavement, mental enslavement.

But if you know your mother tongue, and add other languages, that is empowerment.” No doubt that Christian education is distinctive from all other forms of education. But knowing what makes it different is vital for the world. Christian education is the process by which people are confronted with and controlled by the Christian gospel. It involves the efforts of the Christian community to guide both young and adult persons toward an ever-richer possession of the Christian fellowship.

“I very much like the African American writers. I discovered them at Makerere University (in Uganda), and Caribbean writers like George Lamming were very important to me. The writers of the Harlem Renaissance fired my imagination and made me feel I could be a writer, too. … At the Makerere conference (the African Writers Conference, in 1962), I met with Langston Hughes, and oh my God it was so great!. Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance!

To shake hands with a world famous writer was very very important to me.” His U.S. publisher, The New Press, has just released “Decolonizing Language,” which the author praises as a “beautiful” title. “Decolonizing Language” includes essays and poems written between 2000 and 2019, with subjects ranging from language and education to such friends and heroes as Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author whose 1958 novel, “Things Fall Apart,” is considered by many the starting point for modern African literature.

Achebe also helped launch Ng~ug~i’s career by showing a manuscript of an early novel, “Weep Not, Child,” to publisher William Heinemann, who featured it in the landmark African Writers series. 3) Study of Bible – We share the attributes of the Trinity: God the Father, who willed the world into being; God the Son, who spoke the creation into existence; God the Spirit, who enlightened the universe with the light of life.