• Doug Bafford

Public anxiety grows over “prosperity preachers” who have dominated the religious landscape in South Africa and across the continent.

• Naomi Haynes

Where does the idea that Zambia is a Christian nation come from?

• Serawit Bekele Debele

Irreecha, an annual ritual celebrated at the end of Ethiopia’s rainy season, offers a window into contemporary socio-political issues.

• Derek R. Peterson

The late Mbiti is praised for indigenizing Christianity. However, his veneration of "African" tradition also served as theological justification for authoritarian rule.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

The gendered nature of witchcraft accusations aimed at women who deviate from accepted social norms.

• David Tonghou Ngong

While many African Christians can only imagine a white Jesus, others have actively promoted a vision of a brown or black Jesus, both in art and in ideology.

• Marame Gueye

Religious authorities in Senegal are organizing protests against a popular TV series. The outrage could be related to the challenges the series provokes of the "proper" place of women in society.

• Bolaji Kekere-Ekun
• Rafeeat Aliyu

Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria

• Norbert Odero

The power of having a god who resembles us.

• Ebenezer Obadare

Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.

• Daniel Wroe

Prosperity preachers in Africa have been the subject of much media coverage, but may not be as popular as it would seem.

• Melusi Nkomo

Zimbabwe's regime does not to surrender to anyone its guardianship of the post-independence narrative, symbols and authority.

• Ananya Jahanara Kabir

‘Black Magic Woman’, by Azizaa, from Ghana, is a feminist reclaiming of the sacred from Christianity.

• Kwanele Sosibo

While hip-hop can still connect us to our higher selves, its mainstream adaptations reveal that it is inherently human and not free from flaws.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs