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 Football training in western Cameroon. Photo by the author.

Raphael Dwamena, a death foretold? Consider factors beyond personal faith and religious zeal

Date:08 July 2024
Author:Uroš Kovač 

Raphael Dwamena passed away on November 11th, 2023. A 28-year-old footballer from Ghana, he collapsed on the pitch during a match in Europe, and died. His former club in Albania announced last month that they will honor the player by naming a stadium stand...

Deforestation in Nigeria (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, fachab).

Religious Ecology and Tree Discourse in Nigerian Pentecostalism

Date:28 March 2024
Author:Francis Adebayo

Tree discourse captures how humans name, characterise and relate to trees. In Africa, tree discourse is laden with religious and sacred meanings coterminous with a worldview that spirits inhabit spaces such as trees, stones, and water to mention a few....

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The space for bias in the assessment of converted and apostate asylum seekers

Date:22 January 2024
Author:Hannelore Schouwstra

Fearing persecution because of belief 
Migration policy has long worked as the non-psychical border of a state, through which one is allowed access into a process of exclusion or inclusion (Fossum & Olsen, 2021). An asylum seeker has to receive the status...