• David Tonghou Ngong

From John Paul II to Benedict XVI, papal visits to Cameroon have often come when Paul Biya’s government faced political turmoil.

• Omole Ibukun

Nigeria’s insecurity cannot be solved by foreign airstrikes or a failing state, but by rebuilding democratic, community-rooted systems of collective self-defense.

• Amatallah Saulawa

As the White House hypes “Christian genocide” and floats military action, northern Nigerians are responding with satire.

• Yusuf Bangura

Trump’s threats of military action against Nigeria are not about Christian genocide, but are about rare earths, China, and the scramble to control Africa’s mineral future.

• Ayoola Babalola

Far-right and pro-Israel actors are recasting Nigeria’s insecurity as sectarian extermination to distract from Palestine.

• Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi

The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.

• Maher Mezahi

Beneath the image of togetherness, the world’s biggest athletic spectacle is still beset by discrimination and exclusion.

• Sharon Tshipa

Since independence, Botswana has relied on its natural resources. But to secure its future, it needs to turn to its cultural heritage too.

• Thandi Gamedze

Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.

• Zahra Rahmouni

In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.

• Omole Ibukun

BBC’s new documentary about T.B. Joshua’s human rights abuses has stirred debate about the British broadcaster’s intentions.

• Sharon Tshipa

Environmental protection is deeply-held practice in African spirituality. What happens when it is re-shaped by Christianity and capitalism?

• Christine Mungai

One cannot fully appreciate Kenya’s normative Christianity and its particular obsession with public piety without appreciating the legacy of the East African revival.

• David Tonghou Ngong

Ahead of the publication of his new book on Leopold Senghor and African political theology, the author selects books that inspired his writing process

• Alex Park

The ultra-conservative American televangelist Pat Robertson has died. As poisonous as his influence on American politics was, Robertson’s legacy in Africa is even more cynical.

• Job Tapera

From the enormously influential megachurches of Walter Magaya and Emmanuel Makandiwa to smaller ‘startups,’ the church in Zimbabwe has frightening, nearly despotic authority.

• David Tonghou Ngong

A new Brazilian film shows the role memory plays in African spirituality and dreams of liberation.

• Umar Aminu Yandaki

The personal archives of Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman, a Nigerian pro-democracy activist, suggests that same-faith presidential tickets are not necessarily about religious domination.

• Ousseina D. Alidou

Hausa poetics of compassion and resistance in northern Nigeria in the age of pandemics and neoliberal democracy.

• Wandia Njoya

Which theology we will use to make sense of the relationship between church and state in Kenya?