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Excess of Love in the “Oasis of Peace”

Emmanuel Katongole
August 17, 2018August 17, 2018

Right here in the midst of exile and displacement out of Burundi’s violence, an oasis of peace at a time of desolation, joy in the midst of loss and hatred, a banquet of good food, wine, music, and dance—a celebration of the victory of love over hatred.

Côte d’Ivoire’s Working Definition of Gender Empowers and Excludes

Ludovic Lado
July 24, 2018January 27, 2024

Although Côte d’Ivoire embraces gender equality concerns, the state concept of gender does not include the LGBTQ community and focuses mainly on closing the gender gap between men and women.

On the Theologico-Theatrical: Explaining the Convergence of Pentecostalism and Popular Culture in Nigeria

Ebenezer Obadare
July 10, 2018July 10, 2018

Assurances of salvation may no longer be enough for Nigerian Pentecostalism, where the propulsive energy of Fuji music and commercial imperatives contribute to entangling religion and entertainment.

Something Rotten in the State of Denmark: Katongole on Africa’s Gifts for the West

Series: Born from Lament

William Cavanaugh
August 18, 2017August 8, 2017

The choice for Katongole is not simply the choice between Africa and the West. The cure for Africa’s problems does indeed need to come from outside of Africa, but not from a Western state. It needs to come from God.

The “Dark Continent” is Dead

Series: Born from Lament

Paul Ocobock
August 15, 2017August 15, 2017

After reading Born from Lament, I want to shout from the mountaintop that the “Dark Continent is dead!” Or at least the awful way we in the West describe Africa is dead.

Between ‘Descriptive Haste’ and ‘Prescriptive Haste’

Series: Born from Lament

Tinyiko Maluleke
August 8, 2017August 15, 2017

The central thesis of Emmanuel Katongole’s Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa is that lament…

The Many Faces of Lament

Series: Born from Lament

Cecelia Lynch
August 3, 2017August 4, 2017

How do Christians who have experienced the indescribable love of God in their suffering, and from it draw out unfathomable hope, relate to those who also practice lament and seek hope, but are not Christian?

The Visceral Politics of Lament: A CM Symposium on “Born from Lament”

Series: Born from Lament

Kyle Lambelet
August 1, 2017October 4, 2018

In his new book Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa, Emmanuel Katongole explores a constellation of manifestations of politics in a visceral register by analyzing the theology and politics of lament in East Africa.