Nnaemeka Ali, OMI

Nigerian missionary oblate, doctoral student, theologian, research assistant, and part-time professor at Saint Paul University in Ottawa.

With over eight years of missionary experience among the Innu First Nation in Quebec, he explores how Indigenous wisdom, postcolonial identity, and storytelling can renew theology and mission. His work seeks to listen deeply to the Echoes of the Spirit from the Forest and in “all our relations.”

The Dream of Our Ancestors

“When the ancestors dreamed of the continent, they dreamed of us—not as shadows of their past, but as the living fire of their hopes, and the witnesses of all the past heroes.” Across Africa, we walk on lands watered by tears, cultivated with prayers, and guarded by the spirits of those who came before us—men and women who stood tall…

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