The three essays in this collection look at Africa’s Christian tradition from different chronological perspectives. The first examines the churches…
Septimius Severus · 1 min read
Augustine spent nearly his entire life in Roman Africa and wrote most of his works for an African audience. He…
Lukonde Chaibela · 16 min read
In 1921, a Baptist convert in the lower Congo began to preach and heal, and within six months a colonial…
Lukonde Chaibela · 14 min read
Christians in Alexandria, Carthage, and Aksum wrote theology, established monasteries, and built churches long before any missionary societies reached the…
Lukonde Chaibela · 15 min read
Genomics is reshaping medicine, agriculture and conservation. For Africa it also raises harder questions: who does the science, who controls…
Septimius Severus · 3 min read
We live in an interesting time to be a CIO. The pace of technological change has become so relentless that…
Wilson Byekwaso · 9 min read
Some scholars study history. Others make us question the stories we have inherited. Cheikh Anta Diop was one of the…
Septimius Severus · 9 min read
Africa’s overtaking of Europe as the home of more Catholics marks a transfer of the Church’s centre of gravity, not…
Septimius Severus · 7 min read
There is a warning buried in the old reggae records that Africa has never quite learnt to hear. Jimmy Cliff…
Septimius Severus · 10 min read
