Fulata Lusungu Moyo says in ‘Navigating Experiences of Healing: A Narrative Theology of Eschatological Hope as Healing’ from African Women, Religion and Health, that when her husband Solomon became ill with cancer, her religio-cultural environment regarded it as ‘an infliction from the devil probably through witchcraft.’ However, the attitude of […]
Surprised by Oxford is a memoir of Carolyn Weber‘s (then Carolyn Drake) first year at Oxford. She arrives in the autumn and by spring has become a Christian. This is a story of how you might wish all evangelism went. She meets a stack of incredibly smart, thoughtful people who […]
Musa W Dube wants to see African Indigenous Religions (hereafter AIR/s) viewed in their own right, arguing that those who view them as awaiting the fulfilment of Christianity have had their minds ‘colonised’, and, along with it, their methods of doing theology. Her article in African Women, Religion and Health, ‘Adinkra! […]
Nyambura J Njogore’s ‘Let’s Celebrate the Power of Naming’ in African Women, Religion and Health, honours an essay written by Mercy Oduyoye about her experiences of being a childless African woman. Njogore takes Mercy’s approach of naming the pain and from such experiences creating a life-giving theology, as an example for […]
Continuing my exploration of African theology, and adding the dimension of women’s theologies, my next project is to read several books written by members of The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (previously mentioned as part of 2010/11’s summer project on feminist theology.) Founded by Mercy Amba Ewudziwa Oduyoye, it is […]
The English teacher in me surfaces every now and then so I still enjoy checking out Young Adult fiction.
Peter Temu is an economist who has taught in Kenyan and Tanzanian universities, served in the Tanzanian government, and advised the UN in various capacities. His Tanzania: My Country as I see it is an edited version of a series of articles that originally appeared in The Guardian from 2008-2009. It […]
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