In the Lamu Archipelago, the mention of maulidi elicits a sense of happiness.
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It isn’t easy to leave a gang, but some people do. Patrick and Emersons are two examples and both used the church to help guide them – and help them perform a new role on the streets.
He had enormous charisma and love for South Africa - he also had enormous wealth and made some questionable political choices.
Ultra-conservative pro-family groups finance campaigns to influence the policies of governments and schools.
World famous pastor offered ordinary Nigerians a spiritual explanation for their predicaments: economic hardship made them vulnerable to his power.
Divisions and tensions in the global church are affecting the church in Africa.
He helped found a church with three million followers in 168 countries, a hospital, a university and several schools.
He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
The Catholic Church’s membership numbers are growing fastest outside Europe and the Americas, and Catholics’ priorities look very different across the world.
Recent incidents have been read as a campaign against Christians, but other religious groups feel they are targets too.
The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is viewed differently around the world, an anthropologist writes.
Statistics on religious affiliation in Africa are often questionable - partly because of religion’s link to ethnicity and politics.
Over the past 15 years there’s been a revival of young people - mostly Christians - participating in traditional masquerades, despite these being branded as pagan.
African evangelism is born from – and often funded by – American evangelism, and with it comes a damaging cocktail of rightwing ideologies, especially during the Donald Trump years.
The transitional government has achieved a monumental milestone, but peace agreements in Sudan have been known to fall apart quickly.
Framing the fight against coronavirus as a spiritual war may stem from a shared sense of discomfort about an adversary without discernible conscience; an impersonal demon.
Joseph Shabalala would grow world famous for his music. But it is shaped by the spiritual aspects of his life as much as it is by the hardships of black life - and by his dreams.
Bishop Purity Malinga is the first woman to be appointed Presiding Bishop in the Methodist Church of Southern African in over 200 years.
The Bomvana say the global development agenda has created division because it sees people as individuals rather than primarily as members of a collective.
Jacob Zuma’s religious utterances present a conundrum for scholars, as many poor South African Christians support his moral claims and celebrated his ill-gotten riches.
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Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Postdoctoral associate, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Research Professor, World Christianity and African Studies, DePaul University
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