Frases de Leo Igwe

Leo Igwe es un defensor de los derechos humanos y humanista de Nigeria. Fue el representante del oeste y sur de África en la Unión Internacional de Humanismo y Ética y se especializó en documentar y hacer campañas en contra del impacto que causan las acusaciones de brujería infantil. Actualmente está investigando sobre este tema para su doctorado, en la Universidad de Bayreuth, en la Escuela Internacional de Estudios Africanos en Alemania. Cuenta con un grado en filosofía de la Universidad de Calabar en Nigeria.

Su trabajo en derechos humanos lo ha llevado a tener conflicto con creyentes en brujería de alto perfil, como la Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, por su crítica a lo que él describe como su papel en la violencia y abandono infantil que a veces resulta de las acusaciones de brujería. Su trabajo de campo en derechos humanos lo ha llevado a ser arrestado en varias ocasiones en Nigeria.

Él ha tomado la dirección del movimiento humanista nigeriano, la Alianza Atea Internacional y el Centro de Investigación-Nigeria. En 2012 Igwe fue designado investigador postdoctoral para la Fundación Educativa James Randi. Ahí continua trabajando para cumplir su meta de responder a lo que él ve como efectos perjudiciales de la superstición y el avance del pensamiento escéptico en toda África y el mundo. En 2014, Leo Igwe fue elegido como laureado de la Academia internacional del Humanismo. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. julio 1970
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Leo Igwe: Frases en inglés

“Dare to think. Dare to doubt. Dare to question everything in spite of what the superstitious around you teach and preach.”

A Manifesto for a Skeptical Africa (2012)
Contexto: Most Africans cannot think freely or express their doubts openly because these religions have placed a huge price on freethinking and critical inquiry. Because these belief systems rely on paranormal claims themselves, Africans feel they cannot speak out against superstition as a whole, or they will be ostracized or even killed by religious zealots. Belief in demonic possession, faith healing, and the “restorative” power of holy water can have deadly consequences for believers and whole communities. Africans must reject superstitious indoctrination and dogmatization in public institutions. Africans need to adopt this cultural motto: Dare to think. Dare to doubt. Dare to question everything in spite of what the superstitious around you teach and preach. Africans must begin to think freely in order to ‘emancipate themselves from mental slavery’ and generate ideas that can ignite the flame of an African enlightenment.

“Human beings are social beings with or without religion.”

An Interview with Dr. Leo Igwe — Founder, Nigerian Humanist Movement (2017)

“History has thrust on us this critical responsibility which we must fulfill.”

A Manifesto for a Skeptical Africa (2012)

“For too long, African societies have been identified as superstitious, consisting of people who cannot question, reason or think critically. Dogma and blind faith in superstition, divinity and tradition are said to be the mainstay of popular thought and culture. African science is often equated with witchcraft and the occult; African philosophy with magical thinking, myth-making and mysticism, African religion with stone-age spiritual abracadabra, African medicine with folk therapies often involving pseudoscientific concoctions inspired by magical thinking. Science, critical thinking and technological intelligence are portrayed as Western — as opposed to universal — values, and as alien to Africa and to the African mindset. An African who thinks critically or seeks evidence and demands proofs for extraordinary claims is accused of taking a “white” or Western approach. An African questioning local superstitions and traditions is portrayed as having abandoned or betrayed the essence of African identity. Skepticism and rationalism are regarded as Western, un-African, philosophies. Although there is a risk of overgeneralizing, there are clear indicators that the continent is still socially, politically and culturally trapped by undue credulity. Many irrational beliefs exist and hold sway across the region. These are beliefs informed by fear and ignorance, misrepresentations of nature and how nature works. These misconceptions are often instrumental in causing many absurd incidents, harmful traditional practices and atrocious acts.”

A Manifesto for a Skeptical Africa (2012)

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