The “Dark Continent” is Dead
Series: Born from Lament
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.
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Between ‘Descriptive Haste’ and ‘Prescriptive Haste’
Series: Born from Lament
The central thesis of Emmanuel Katongole’s Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa is that lament…
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The Many Faces of Lament
Series: Born from Lament
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?
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The Visceral Politics of Lament: A CM Symposium on “Born from Lament”
Series: Born from Lament
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.
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