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This Voice Afrique conversation series between Fr Stan Chu Ilo and Dr. Anthonia Otunla brings to you stories and a Gospel of healing and strength. We provide a safe and communal a space of faith and positive psychology for healing, and hope for people who are suffering from trauma, wounded memories, hunted by their past and other burdens that weigh down the soul, mind, body, and spirit.

I’m Stan Chu Ilo, and in this special series, I invite you to join me and Dr. Anthonia Otunla — a compassionate physician, counselor, and faith-filled woman — as we explore the hidden wounds of the mind and the heart that many in Africa and across the world quietly carry.

This series, Healing the Mind, Restoring the Soul, is our response to the growing mental health and trauma crisis that touches every family, community, and church. Together with Dr. Otunla, we will listen to the stories of pain and resilience that too often go unheard — the struggles with depression, anxiety, violence, loss, and the silent battles of everyday life.

But more importantly, we will also seek paths toward healing and wholeness — discovering how faith, community, and compassionate care can restore dignity and hope to those who suffer.

From Scripture to lived experience, from the wisdom of psychology to the language of the Gospel, this series invites us to see that God walks with us even in our brokenness, and that healing begins when we dare to speak, to listen, and to love again.

So, wherever you ar — in your home, your car, your parish, or your place of work — take a deep breath, open your heart, and join us on this sacred journey toward healing and renewal.

This is a series where faith meets mental health, and hope finds a voice.

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In this special episode of Voice Afrique, Fr. Stan Chu Ilo and Fr. Nnaemeka Ali, O.M.I., reflect on the tragic killing of Fr. Matthew Eya, a young priest from Enugu State, Nigeria.

Together, they explore the deep wound his death leaves for his parish, his family, and the entire Church. They ask:

• What does it mean to live as people of hope when priests and ordinary citizens alike are unsafe?
• How should the Church and society respond to the culture of impunity, corruption, and neglect fueling violence?
• Can gospel nonviolence lead us beyond anger and fear into justice and healing?

Through lament, testimony, and prophetic challenge, this conversation honours the life of Fr. Matthew and all victims of senseless violence. Above all, it insists that God never abandons His people, and light will overcome darkness.

📖 Scripture echoes: Exodus 32 | Luke 15 | Isaiah 1:18

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In a world scarred by political violence, wars, and divisions carried out in the name of God, this episode of Voice Afrique dares to speak truth. We challenge those who invoke God to justify violence, hatred, and extremism—reminding our listeners that such distortions betray the very heart of faith.

This episode is a call to memory—because we cannot build peace by forgetting. It is a summons to conversion—because true transformation must begin in our hearts before it can reshape our societies. And it is an invitation to collective action—because only together can we break the cycles of vengeance and hatred.

We reflect on the urgent need to embody God’s love and to see God in one another, across every difference, across every border. We explore how communities of faith and conscience can resist the seduction of violence and rediscover the humanity that unites us.

Voice Afrique brings prophetic voices, stories, and reflections that remind us: peace is not naïve, it is necessary. Ending wars fought in the name of God begins with daring to live in the name of love.

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In this episode, we explore what it means to hold onto hope when life hurts. As we look around at a world marked by war, poverty, ecological destruction, and spiritual fatigue, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. But Christian hope is not wishful thinking—it is rooted in the Resurrection, in the promise that love is stronger than death, and that God is always at work, even in the ashes of our suffering.

Fr. Stan Chu Ilo and Susan Hookong-Taylor reflect on how hope is not the denial of pain, but the courage to believe that something new can emerge from it. Drawing from African wisdom, Catholic theology, and real-life stories, they remind us that we do not suffer alone. We are part of a communion—a community of wounded healers—and in Christ, our suffering is never wasted. Hope, then, is leaning on God and on one another, knowing that even in the darkest night, the light still shines.

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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.