Spiritual Growth in the Midst of Challenges

About the Book

According to the savvy African Scientist by the name of Cheikh Anta Diop, the true cause of Socrates’ death was the fact that he brought and introduced new ideas (from a foreign country) to the society in which he was living.(conference in LOME, Africa). Another wise African Scientist who was at the time living in France, once said: “Opening myself to others, Paris has opened me to the true knowledge of myself.” Leopold Sedar Senghor. (from a book read in the secondary school, in the DR Congo, 1976-79). In this book, SPIRITUAL GROWTH IN THE MIDST OF CHALLENGES: a positive answer to a destructive disposition, the author is trying to explain that each society creates its barriers. With its cultures and beliefs, societies have developed Barriers; such as: - unableling someone financially by refusing to hire her/him for the work he /she qualified for; or which she/he deserves and systematically putting him/her down; - assassinating one’s character by labeling him /her as a mental health sufferer because of his/her courage of not being afraid to speak the truth and to bring it forward to the public; - preventing him/her to generate good income in order to live a decent and prosper life; - Breaking his /her spirit by refusing his /her work and therefore, destroying all her/his credibility and efforts to evolve; Those barriers are implemented to allow or to limit certain people from becoming successful in a given society. These calculated bad intentions are put in place and carried on to make someone become sick or just to harm. What the author is really trying to say is that when a person lacks supports ( i.e, financial, emotional, and social), he or she is already dead. This attitude proceed from the society that does not promote gifts, talents and abilities of someone prominent and promising because of the color of his/her skin, the origin, the religion or the difference in reasoning. Isn’t true that anything that waste potential or potentiality is Evil?

About the Author

Adolfo Makuntima Makwiza (Ado Makuntima) was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a Congolese Mother and an Angolan Fater. After Finishing Elementary School and placement testing, Adolfo studied the Humanities with a focus on literature in a course designed for future journalists, lawyers, writers and politicians. A year later Adolfo switched his studies to education, matriculating with a diploma in 1983. A year later he became a Teacher then he left teaching to study philosophy at the Catholic Seminary Saint Robert Bellarmin de MAYIDI, Congo. In 986 he decided to pursue further studies and work in Angola where his Father’s family came from. A year later, Adolfo went to ROME, Italy to study philosophy at the Pontificia Universita SAN TOMMASO (ANGELICUM), Catholic University. In 1989 after spending eight months in Boston Massachusetts, Adolfo moved to Toronto, Canada where he currently resides. Adolfo continued his studies receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from York University, and a degree in education from the University of Ottawa; he recently graduated with a Master’s Degree in Theology from the University of Toronto. As an Artist, a musician with six CD albums ( Trial, Extreme Joy, Reaching for the Sun, Humiliation, Forgotten Mirror and a Single with songs: Congolese Woman, Amnesia, Change your Ways. See videoClips on: www. YouTube.com. By typing: ADO MAKUNTIMA. And You can buy songs on iTunes, by Typing: ADO and the title of the Album.). Adolfo is also an accomplished writer, Teacher and Television producer, and the proud Father of a daughter, Sarah N’Kenge Rivard. Adolfo speaks French, English, Italian, Lingala, and KIkongo fluently, and comprehends Portuguese and Spanish.