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In this episode, co-hosts Susan Hookong-Taylor and Fr. Stan Chu Ilo offer a soul-stirring conversation on one of humanity’s most enduring needs: hope. At a time when many are overwhelmed by loss, injustice, and uncertainty, they explore where hope is found, how it survives failure, grief, and disappointment, and why faith remains a powerful force for transformation.

This is a message not just for Africans and the global Black community, but for anyone yearning for light in dark times. As Susan and Stan reflect on the importance of resilience, rootedness in community, and the quiet strength of spiritual conviction, VoiceAfrique becomes more than a podcast—it becomes a healing space for all who believe that, even in the face of suffering, something beautiful is still possible.

Hope is not a naïve wish. It’s a radical act. And faith makes it real.

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Fr Edward Obi, a member of the Missionary Society of St Paul (MSP), shares with us the humble beginnings of this missionary society in Nigeria, and the extraordinary growth and impact of Nigeria's MSP fathers in taking the Gospel to their African brothers and sisters, and their mission to the West. His testimony is compelling and captivating.

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Ugandan Fr Ruffino Ezama is a Comboni missionary father and Provincial for North America. In this engaging podcast, this outstanding humanitarian, theologian, and Church leader, shares his first person narrative of the joy, challenges, and opportunities of being an African missionary to fellow Africans, and to Europeans and North Americans. He addresses the important question of how African missionaries to fellow Africans can become self-sustaining by promoting a new approach to mission in Africa that is less dependent on the West.

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Fr Augustine Anwuchie, a priest of Awgu diocese, Nigeria shares his experience of being a missionary to fellow Africans in Maradi Diocese, Niger Republic. His witness to the poor and the marginalized, and his outreach to Muslims and practitioners of African Traditional Religion, and the security risks he and his small flock of Christians in this diocese with less than 1000 Catholics face everyday is a Gospel worth hearing by all.

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What lessons are we learning from the hospitalization of Pope Francis about the health and wellbeing of pastoral agents? Fr Stan Chu Ilo reflects on the health challenges of pastors and how our pastors can be transparent with their health, and embrace health improvement, healthy lifestyle, and simple health protection and prevention practices. He proposes that pastoral agents cannot take care of God's people or God's Church if they cannot take care of their health.

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Ugandan Catholic theologian, peace advocate, and expert on pastoral theology and synodality, Fr Ambrose J. Bwangatto, speaks on the urgent need to end the ongoing war in the Congo. He lays a roadmap for peace for the long suffering people of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes Region. He argues that in these difficult times many people are looking up to the Church to be close to the suffering masses of God's people. He commends the efforts of the Church and calls on the warring parties most of whom bear Christian names to put down their arms and walk the path of peace. His call for political justice, equity, and inclusion, and for a new logic of love is both inspiring and compelling.

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Fr Walter Ihejirika, the President of Signis Africa and a professor of development communication at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, shares his life experiences and his journey of faith and vocation to the priesthood. A foremost academic and scholar, and an influential Church communication expert, he invites us in this episode into his world of communicating faith, and why he believes in a better future for Africa amidst recurring challenges. He shares some spiritual and practical insights on how African Catholics and indeed all Christians should celebrate this jubilee of hope as people of faith on a pilgrimage of hope to that future which is in the hand of God.

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Sr Leonida Katunge speaks on the movement of the Catholic Church in Africa to end the scourge of human trafficking and modern day slavery in the continent. She bemoans the sexual exploitation of our young girls and women; the destruction of the lives of our young boys; and this stain on our society in Africa. She invites everyone to commit to this fight to end this silent and ancient crime in Africa and the world. We invite you to join the movement to fight for some of our most vulnerable and innocent members of society who are condemned to die by criminals, greedy people, and corrupt government and immigration officials who are working in cahoots to promote this dirty and evil crime against our children and youth.