On the issues of Religion, God, Spirituality etc, i would have loved to join and we discuss more about it, but a lot of pessimism about you have overwhelmed me, because of your self-styled objective thoughts which is only subjected to Religion. Don’t you think the superstitions which you said has sabotaged the condition of humanity in Africa, is not only a product of Religion, we all know Religion renders one in some kind of superstition, but superstition works well for others, just like you have explained, or your idol Parrish

Who do you think, the likes of Eminem, Jamie Fox, Lil Wayne etc keeps referring as Rain man, if it is not the superstition of what they base their reasoning on. they follow hip-hop, of which refer to us a workshop of free-thoughts, yet these free thoughts to you is only what can save humanity, what has hip-hop in any way if not just immoralities of all walks of life (from nudity to drug addiction) of which ethically, you and agree its wrong

And by the way, why i say you are too westernized, is because your logical and scientific explanation of life matters is in a very well researched and known-how-to-use western language (English) How then can you be an African champion of advocating for free thought to a rural folk in Amuru, whose Acholi Language have not had chance of participating in developing philosophy? how would you harmonize words like Rationality, mysticism, logic, superstition etc? Would you not end up teaching these ideologies of where you manufactured the civilization in you from, to a few of us who can communicate in this language.

On the issue of science, first of all, it is in rare occasions to find a linguist like you and I having a better scientific explanation than scientist. Yet some scientist contradict each other and do not have a totality of what they talk about just like Religion. if science cannot explain, how the sole/spirit come to be, cannot create life, science is then ignorant, and that way you are ignorant too, because you believe in science, just like you say, religion has made its followers ignorant

As for me, i criticize not, whatever side (neither science nor religion) because they contain both follies and rationalities. I would rather have loved to see you advocating for how we can integrate this two phenomena(they are phenomena to me) such that they work together

If you want to know me well, I am Martin Okwir, a student at Makerere , doing Foreign Language (French). I engaged you in a discussion after the BBC program at Makerere, about Religion and Science Mix.

However on an entirely different note, I’d love to hear the two of you debate the rights of women, gender equality, feminism, whatever you may call it. That would soooooo totally make my day!