AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM
Global Discourses, Migrations, Exchanges and Connections
The Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu Vol. 1Edited by Wilhelmina J. Kalu, Nimi Wariboko, and Toyin Falola
This book provides an excellent lens to view, interpret, and evaluate the Pentecostal experience in the African continent. Contrary to dominant Western perspectives on African Pentecostalism which sees it as a religious vehicle for Western global cultural influences in Africa, Kalu provides an alternative trans-national discourse that is sensitive to local identities, appropriations, and contestations of global processes.
In essay after essay in this volume, he demonstrates the courage to blaze a new path, offer new, bold insights, render prevailing discourse obsolete, and set sail a new one in the treacherous academic waters by shifting the terms, accent, and drift of the old one. |
CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN AFRICA
Mission, Ferment and Trauma
The Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu Vol. 2Edited by Wilhelmina J. Kalu, Nimi Wariboko and Toyin Falola
The narratives and analyses in this volume will enable scholars of global Christianity to discern how the shifting center of gravity in Christianity is being played out in Africa. Kalu in these essays do not simple record demographic shift, numerical growth, and vitality of African churches, but also and importantly shows how the expressions of Christianity are filtered through African cultures.
The narratives are intellectually compelling and emotionally engaging. They primarily focus on concrete lives and efforts of people engaged in the missionary endeavor. The essays do not simply tell the story of how African Christians are engaged in the practices of sharing their faith. |
RELIGIONS IN AFRICA
Conflicts, Politics and Social Ethics
The Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu Vol. 3Edited by Wilhelmina J. Kalu, Nimi Wariboko, and Toyin Falola
This volume collects together Kalu’s insightful essays on the intersection of religion and social issues in Africa. They constitute an engaging set of political and ethical analyses of the flow of events as Christianity penetrated Africa and sustains itself it multiple forms. It is an illuminating, informative, and and provocative commentary on religion in African public spaces. It is also a constructive study of how religion affects public life, engaging the debate on how primal religions frame the outworking of the social ethics of African Christians and Muslims. |
MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND DIPLOMACY
Perspectives from the Southern MediterraneanEdited by Ivan Ureta and Derek Lutterbeck
The aim of this volume is twofold: to offer a broader perspective on the migration-development nexus, and to give a stronger voice to the often-overheard voices of southern Mediterranean countries on migration and development issues. The majority of the contributions contained in this volume explore various facets of the relationship between migration and development from the perspective of the countries along the southern rim of the Mediterranean, although some of them also provide critical analyses of EU policies in this area. |
RACE AND THE CIVILIZING MISSION
Their Implications for the Framing of Blackness and African Personhood 1800 - 1960Waibinte E. Wariboko
Europeans had militarily subjugated and occupied Africa in part because they were on a “civilizing mission” to rescue Africans from savagery and barbarism. This book explores one central question, among many others, while interrogating and problematizing this notion: How does understanding “race” help us to better appreciate the subtle ideological motivations and underpinnings of the European “civilizing mission”? The latter notion, it is painstakingly argued, was engendered by the former as an instrument for propagating and glamorizing whiteness at the expense of blackness. |
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