• Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

Anti-queer laws in Africa are often framed as cultural defense—but their roots lie in colonial legacies, religious nationalism, and global reactionary alliances.

• 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.

• 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?

• Alex White

A new HBO documentary exposes the harm caused by unqualified aid workers in Uganda, but its attempts to complicate the narrative ultimately fall flat.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Wandia Njoya

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

• Rabiat Akande

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

• Robert Trent Vinson

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

• 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?

• Adriaan van Klinken
• Ezra Chitando

The leading African writers and creative artists who are reimagining Christian thought and the several Christian-inspired groups who are transforming religious practice.

• Brindley J. Fortuin

An encounter on a Cape Town bus forces the writer to think about religion, especially Christianity, and queerness.

• Sam Okyere

Enough of the ignorance: LGBT+ rights are Ghanaian and human rights, not an attempt by Westerners to impose their values or culture.

• Adriaan van Klinken

A key part of Maathai's work was how she creatively engaged with religious traditions, including Christianity and the Bible. Admittedly, her stance was somewhat complex.

• Yotam Gidron

Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.

• David Tonghou Ngong

At a time when Evangelical Christianity frequently goes against the interests of African people, is it time for us to re-make Christianity?

• Marian Burchardt

Some churches in South Africa have become embroiled with criminal economies.