... Cecil John Rhodes Zimbabwe African Christianity Thomas Mapfumo mbira ...

... not pay the required dowry and so never married Mapfumo’s mother. Cecil John Rhodes Zimbabwe African Christianity Thomas Mapfumo mbira ...

... of rural Africans in the Eastern Cape with early twentieth-century studio portraits of African Christians in South African urban centers. These images visualize a tense grammar of colonization and black self-fashioning, and the tense relations of photographic subjects to the ethnographic gazes engendered...

... speculates about the transformation from the practice of African religions to the acceptance of Christianity among early generations of African Americans. Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye Leesburg Georgia fishing African spirituality ...

... on race as the basis of cobelonging. African identities, as doubled and contingent, can be understood only in relation to the continent’s responses to Judeo-Christianity and Islam. Black discourse liberal democracy Africa Judeo-Christianity Islam ...

... This chapter first documents the surge in Christian conversion among freedpeople amid their continued adherence to the African spiritual practice of obeah, and then explores the prevalence of nonmonogamous informal partnerships over Christian wedlock—both of which complicate any assumptions...

... biological father could not pay the required dowry and so never married Mapfumo’s mother. Cecil John Rhodes Zimbabwe African Christianity Thomas Mapfumo mbira In this chapter, Mapfumo moves to the capital city—then Salisbury, now Harare—to join the family of his mother, step-father, and step...

... The chapter explores the contradictory impact of mission Christianity on colonial Northern and Southern Nigeria. It contends that in the Northern Nigerian Protectorate mission Christianity provided a formidable framework in which non-Muslim minority communities articulated strategies to resist...

... “Black,” the color of night and nothingness, is a name given by someone else, an insult, a habit, and a way of being, but also a mechanism for objectification and degradation. For Marcus Garvey, Blackness was not lack but the possibility for redemption within the “African empire.” Aimé Césaire’s...

... Christian-educated elites mission Christianity charismatic Christianity Middle Belt Yoruba communities ...

... This introductory chapter presents the central argument for the book: Muslim and Christian structures have been decisive in the making of modern Nigeria. This chapter also identifies and critically analyzes the theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that shape these significant...

... This chapter argues that the convergence of two major world and regional religious movements—the Islamic reformist movement that established the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria and the Christian evangelical movement in Atlantic Southern Nigeria—provided the social and political platform...

... The chapter provides a detailed analysis of the formidable opposition mounted by Northern, Southern, and Middle Belt Christians against the expanded sharia policies of twelve Northern Muslim states that imposed unrestricted Islamic law in the early years of the Fourth Republic. The chapter also...

... historical individual of African descent. Exposure to James’s work leads to recognition of the importance of Toussaint Louverture. Shoatz’s discussion underlines the way in which The Black Jacobins acts as an educational and organizing tool. The author concludes by suggesting that the book continues...