Extinsive repository of research and articles on AICs (These are Christian bodies in Africa that were established as a result of African initiative, rather than on the initiative of foreign missionary organisations.)

In the period since 1960 independent Africa has seen the rapid growth of a new group of African Christian theologians developing a new discourse within the churches planted by European and American missions. It has been established for some time that the theology of this group has gone through a first phase...

Africa is on record as the continent with the highest numerical Christian growth rate in the world. And the Bible has been identified as a major contributor to this phenomenal growth of Christianity in Africa. Given the oral tradition that informs the background of African Christians and the literary tradition that the Bible represents, the question of the interaction between the Bible and culture in African Christianity becomes an intriguing one...

Religion, and specifically Christianity, is often portrayed as a tool of the dominant classes. Yet religion has helped shape the political ideas and the behaviour of most groups and classes in South Africa in ways that are more complex, contradictory, and changing than this portrayal suggest