African Christianity: An African Story

Abstract

i) arkness has hit Africa at noon. As Henri Marou would say, the historian is a “missionary dispatched to the past to strike a hyphen between the past and the present.” The Igbo people have a proverb that says that a man who does not know where the rain met him is unlikely to know where he is going. There is no brand of African scholarship that can be done in our times without a concern to explore the dilemma and seek a solution for our continent’s condition. This is what Eduardo Hooanert calls, “re-animating the memory of Christian commu- nities so that it defines their social consciousness.”! History could be a certain type of memory that evokes liberative power; not mere knowledge of the past but one that is commitment. It should lead people to the truth of their condi- tion in a scientific manner, not violated by cant or propaganda.