• 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?

• Jacob K. Olupona

Indigenous traditions possess the greatest potential for developing robust civic values and identity in Africa.

• Rabiat Akande

The legal politics of religious difference in late colonial northern Nigeria still resonate more than 60 years post-independence.

• Naseemah Mohamed

The imperative to tell the untold stories of Zimbabwean freedom fighters during that country’s liberation war, especially their engagement with spirituality.

• Moses E. Ochonu

Africans have been decolonizing, critiquing, but also enriching liberal democracy from an African perspective since colonial times. Pro-democracy and decolonial intellectuals owe a debt to this body of work and can learn from it.

• Robert Trent Vinson

The spread of Garveyism from the US to Africa was as much about political liberation as it was religious salvation.