• 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.

• Ayodeji Ogunnaike

Yoruba political ontology, non-competitive democracy, and the sacrality of power in Nigeria.

• Oludamini Ogunnaike

We need to stop looking to Euro-America and its models and traditions, especially religion, as the source of all answers to the problems of the African continent and its people.

• Alex Thurston

Many see Salafism as rigid and unbending, but in the Sahel, political conditions force its proponents to be smart and savvy.

• Terje Østebø

Salafism is across Ethiopia. While Saudi Arabia has played a role, Ethiopian Muslims themselves are playing a bigger one.

• David Tonghou Ngong

Why would African Christians in the West, discriminated against in Europe and the United States, embrace views that marginalize not only others but also themselves?