Quinn, Frederick. African Saints: Saints, Martyrs, and Holy People from the Continent of Africa. Crossroads, 2002.

Africa is a deeply spiritual continent and yet has relatively few canonized saints. This book shares the wonderful and often heroic stories of people of faith from the continent of Africa.

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Peel, J. D. Y. Religious encounter and the making of the Yoruba. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2003.

The author contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in themid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.

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Omenyo Cephas, N. and Anum, Eric B, 2014. Trajectories of Religion in Africa. Essays in Honour of John S. Pobee. Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations, Volume: 48 Brill, 2014.

The book discusses issues relating to mission, ecumenism, and theological education and is presented in four sections. The first segment discusses works on ecumenical and theological education and assesses the relevance of the World Council of Churches. Other issues discussed in this segment relate to the interrelationships that exist between academic theology, ecumenism, and Christianity. The World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, which set the agenda for world-wide mission in a promising manner in the 1920s, is also assessed in this section of the work. The second segment, which covers Religion and Public Space, discusses works that examine the relationships between religion and power, religion and development, religion and traditional religious beliefs, and religion and practices in Africa. The third segment of the book treats Religion and Cultural Practices in African and how all these works out in couching out an African theology and African Christianity. Some of the issues discussed in this section related to African traditional philosophy, spiritism, and the interrelationships that exist between African Christianity and African Traditional Religion. The last segment of the book discusses the issue of African biblical hermeneutics and specifically looks at contemporary hermeneutical approaches to biblical interpretations in Africa.

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Mungazi, Dickson A.  In the footsteps of the masters: Desmond M. Tutu and Abel T. Muzorewa.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000.

The height of colonial rule on the African continent saw two prominent religious leaders’ step to the fore: Desmond Tutu in South Africa, and Abel Muzorewa in Zimbabwe. Both Tutu and Muzorewa believed that Africans could govern their own nations responsibly and effectively if only they were given the opportunity. In expressing their religious views about the need for social justice each man borrowed from national traditions that had shaped policy of earlier church leaders. Tutu and Muzorewa argued that the political development of Africans was essential to the security of the white settlers and that whites should seek the promotion of political development of Africans as a condition of that future security. Desmond Tutu and Abel Muzorewa were both motivated by strong religious principles. They disregarded the possible personal repercussions that they might suffer as a result of their efforts to alter the fundamental bases of their colonial governments. Each man hoped to create a new national climate in which blacks and whites could cooperate to build a new nation. Each played apart in eventual independence for Zimbabwe in 1980 and for South Africa in1994. Mungazi's examination of their efforts reveals how individuals with strong convictions can make a difference in shaping the future of their nations.

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Hinfelaar, Hugo F, 1994. Bemba-Speaking Women of Zambia in a Century of Religious Change (1892-1992). E.J Brill, 1994.

Bemba-Speaking Women of Zambia traces the often-painful religious changes that have occurred among the Bemba-speaking women of Zambia since the last decade of the19th century. It argues that the religious tenets of the traditional domestic cult had already been undermined by the centralizing tendencies of the merchant princes before the arrival of the missionaries who based their church structures on the concept of the Bemba hierarchy. The body of the book describes with great authority the creative redress of the women as channeled through independent Christian movements and through the mission churches themselves. These chapters are especially important as it is shown in the last part of the book that these genuine reactions of the women could well offer material for genuine inculturation.

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Gifford, Paul. The Christian Churches and the Democratization of Africa, Brill, 1995.

This volume focuses on the role Christian churches have played in Africa's democratization movements since the late 1980s. In some cases, churchmen have presided over national conferences; in many, Christians comprise arguably the most significant segment of civil society. In some countries pastoral letters have challenged dictators; in others, churches have provided an essential support for the status quo. The book comprises both theoretical analyses and case studies. The theoretical discussions include the history of Church-State relations; theology and democracy; Pentecostalism and democracy; the problems of consolidating democracy. The 13 case studies sketch the historical context, and then critically examine developments up till late 1993.The book will prove particularly useful to students of Third World Christianity, African historians and political scientists, and all interested in the socio-political role of Christianity.

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