Reflections from the Zambezi

It is almost two months ago that renowned preacher Billy Graham died. Many tributes have been written about him and his ministry. On my part one of the books written by Billy Graham I found helpful reading when I was a young Christian in the 80s was "Peace with God". Billy Graham founded Christianity Today and it is from that organisation that the tribute below (found on: Evangelist Billy Graham Has Died ) of Billy Graham by Marshall Shelley is taken. Billy Graham was perhaps the most significant religious figure of the 20th century, and the organizations and the movement he helped spawn continue to shape the 21st. During his life, Graham preached in person to more than 100 million people and to millions more via television, satellite, and film. Nearly 3 million have responded to his invitation to "accept Jesus into your heart" at the end of his sermons. He proclaimed the gospel to more persons than any other preacher in history. In the process, Graham beca...

Last month on 21st March 2018, it was exactly five years since renowned Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe passed on.  Isaac Makashinyi, a thriving writer and pastor wrote the following reflections. Please read on.  21st March, 2018, marks exactly five years since renowned Nigerian and African novelist, poet and professor Chinua Achebe died. I can’t explain why this date has remained embedded on my mind since his passing on. Somehow, the name of Chinua Achebe emerges from my subconscious around the time he died. It’s a memory that has been effortlessly kept like the birthday of a loved one. Chinua Achebe is the famed author of Things Fall Apart, published in 1958 when he was only 28. It was his first novel that in part led to his being called the “Patriarch of the African novel.” I was in Grade 9 when I read Things Fall Apart. It was the second novel in the African Writers’ Series that I read. The first one was by our own Dominic Mulaisho, The Tongue of the...