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bus- koudougo to Bobo
at the end of yesterdays journal, my ride arrived, and within 2 hrs I was on a bus once more. I had scored a fancy seat next to the second door in the back. If we were to go off road, this would mean a more bump ride, but the creative opportunities for leg space just could not be passed up.
I have just had a morning filled with an informal conversation regarding inculturation. I don’t want to commercialize my experience, but I do wish I could just record this at times. One of the great lines I heard was, pour former, on doit deformer. This was in reference to education, but it came up many times. It reminded me of what gaetano and I were talking about. He was saying that all forms of education is a form of alienation. While I can agree with that, the degree to which one becomes alienated is diffretn and should perhaps be laden with value judgments.
I have had some more near misses with fans. They are metal here as well, and it would hurt.

Now that I am here in bobo, I plan on trying to arrange my visit with the archbishop. As I am so close to vacation and in a new city, I am also allowing myself to take some tiem to relax, visit some of the historical cultural sites

An interesting question that will be running through my mind as I go to mali, would be what would it mean to have Christianity in this context. It goes back to a question that came in one of the One magazines: Could one be a follow of Christ while also still being a muslim? it asked it in a far more eloquent manner. Islam is embedded and intertwined with Arabic culture. Were one to become a Christian, would it mean an alienation from this? In the Egyptian context it is quite interesting, because there has been an arabization of the Christians without an islamization.