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“Thus framed the first narrative lacuna, the first release of communal tears, in this storied journey is that the oppressive Pharaoh did not know Joseph. What it is about Joseph that this Pharaoh—only the latest in a succession of Pharaohs within the political institution—did not know is unclear and unstated. But far as epistemological amnesia screams for narrative and interpretive attention. His amnesia is corrosive to the communal and interpret of existence of the Hebrews. And it is from that abyss that the exodus-motif begins to birth Exodus-story.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“Liberation is not just about movement from one place to another, but especially about how Exodus’ multiple movements become mechanisms for bringing liberation to the material and ideological structures of oppression in Egypt, the Wilderness, the Mountain, and beyond. The catalyst for exodus liberation movement (“let my people go”) serves a larger goal: “let my people live” —the hermeneutical and material transition from erased, marginalized, and singularized existence to creative freedom, wholeness, and community that enshrines the full flourishing of the material and interpretive soul/life.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“Exodus is certainly not the loss of all of Egypt, but only of the Egypt that is unable or unwilling to reform, to creatively respond to internal criticism, and to be radically hospitable in ways that enshrine healthy living for its people and the future. Deprived of such work of internal innovation and development, Egypt must be rejected.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“The political story cannot stand, survive, or be meaningful without the ecological story. Exodus is epistemologically and materially grounded in the earth, for survival and flourishing. But the exodus earth is more than a sire or stage of political liberation; the earth is a participant and subject to the story.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“It is no longer enough to simply explore how to survive while sharing space with the structure that threatens to eliminate you; one must ask how to redesign the structure.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“Fragile systems and ideologies have a way of producing fragile minds and mindsets that rely on marginalizing others. The appropriate response to this reality is ultimately not to switch residential zip codes but to change governing ideology... To shift location from Egypt to Canaan, without changing the underlying social, political, and ideological determinants of marginalization, is to transfer the problem rather than resolve it.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“Against exploitation of human and nonhuman life, the Exodus story’s earthly and earthy focus—the rootedness of home in the earth—signifies that political liberation without ecological liberation is not only insufficient but also deficient and ultimately unacceptable.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“The switch from “let my people go” to “let my people live” means that liberation is more than a response to oppression. Africana life and hermeneutics include a response to oppression, and so accord with epistemological and hermeneutical force of “let my people go.” The power and future of liberation—the power to transform unformed futures into formed futures—depends on making sure that those narrative lacunae speak, and that they speak not so much as perfectly designed stories with only occasional detours but as resilient voices that regenerate and produce new life and life-forms.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus