The man that sees tomorrow, 2021

The metaphorical concept of African time is one in which tardiness, lousiness and a total disregard for schedules and program is made out to characterize all Africans. Tardiness is a universal phenomenon; it should not be made to hang around the African’s neck like a milestone meant to drown a criminal.

In this view, man’s inner life is sequential and, therefore, temporal, but God’s relation to our temporal sequence is “all at once.” In a sense, God has his own timeline. He is not located at any point in our timeline. His time does not map onto our time at all. Time is God’s handiwork which, like all Creation, is under God’s command. God acts in and through history but, being eternal, time does not encompass him.