Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States Orji Cyril
Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States Orji Cyril The story of Africa is a ghost story with two plots. The foreign plot has its origin in colonial…
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Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States Orji Cyril
The story of Africa is a ghost story with two plots. The foreign plot has its origin in colonial history. One is foreign or imported and the other indigenous or local.
But both plots end in the same place: African trauma and culture complex. The indigenous plot is African in origin. These narratives create in modern Africa a splintered consciousness and the political and economic conditions that lead to physical and psychological violence.Unmasking the African Ghost is both a theological exploration of the reasons the political and economic systems in African countries have failed and a proposal for the paths toward recovery, anchored in the belief that Africa is a continent continuously trying to redefine its identity in the face of Eurocentrism.
For the church in Africa to be a church at the service of its people, theology in Africa must take misery and oppression as
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