Decolonial Conversations in African Christianity: Developing a Public Theology for Kenya
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2022
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Transformation
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Historians have held that colonialism and Western missionary enterprise were two distinct and unrelated entries to pre-colonial Kenya. How then did Christianity for decades live side by side with colonialism? The impact of that unholy relationship is felt and sustained in contemporary forms of violence. Whiteness realizes that is hard to enter into something that is in harmony. Therefore, separation needs to happen for Whiteness to succeed. Unfortunately, much of our theological understanding today is tempered with a neocolonial mindset that separates the soul from the body for Christian triumphalism. This paper will analyze the impact of Whiteness in Kenya during and after colonialism to demonstrate how the British explorer-settler-missionary alliance oiled the religious and economic disenfranchising of African people. Secondly, it proposes a political theology that will restore ‘Shalom’ in a socially, economically, and spiritually broken country.
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Decolonial Conversations, African Christianity, Public Theology, Kenya
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Munyao, M. (2022). Decolonial Conversations in African Christianity: Developing a Public Theology for Kenya. Transformation, 39(4), 235–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/02653788221131657