This book offers a unique personal perspective on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It is a first person narrative of a European homosexual who tested positive in the early eighties. The author owes his survival t…

The first full-length study of one of the territorial rain cults; and an endeavour to preserve knowledge about a rapidly changing complex system of traditional beliefs, rituals, and practices, under the influen…

An old dog (galu wamkota) does not dig for nothing, so the proverb says. The two authors, one from America (with 45 years in Zambia); the other from Zambia, explore the encounter of the Christian faith with Afr…

An issue of the highest concern for both the Church and society in Malawi is the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malawi here considers the extent to which the Church and civil…

This is the first book by a Malawian woman theologian. First released in 1997 it won an honorable mention in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1998 and is now updated here with a new introduction by th…

This book sets out, translates into English and interprets the key documents and texts of the African Ancestors Religion. It contextualises the movement within Malawi’s new religious movements and conflicts bet…

The thesis of this study is that a working Christian theology is constructed under the spirits’ guidance from pre-Christian materials’. These materials or vessels are epitomised by ‘pots’ which in Africa seem t…

This book argues that the Baptist religious denomination underscores the empowerment of women and the expansion of their cultural sphere in Malawi. The study provides the theological background, and gives the h…

Missiology, the study of missions, has not always had a firm place amongst the major theological disciplines. But since the Church in Africa is largely built on missions, an understanding thereof depends on an …

Many scholars have tended to take African Christianity as a given, and study its social, political, economic or ecological implications, without coming to terms with the nature and character of African Christia…

It has now been twenty years since the Executive Commitee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, called upon churches worldwide to urgently address the issue of HIV/AIDS. The call…

In Christian Europe, witchcraft beliefs took over 1700 years to recede, and occult practice is still in vogue in certain circles. In Africa, and in Malawi in particular, supernatural beliefs continue to be wide…

This study investigates the uniqueness of fulfilment quotations in the Gospel of Matthhew in their Old and New Testament contexts to ascertain how they contribute to an understanding of evangelist theology. …

The Seventh-day Adventist Church, which recently passed the 12 million-member mark is a movement that owes much of its identity to a unique Missiology. This short study is an effort to contribute to the most im…

This book describes itself as: ‘a cultural, psychological study of the way Christian Malawians account for their involvement in African traditional religion’. It is a qualitative study of how Christians manage …

This book provides a succinct historical overview of Christianity in Africa. It is written in the tradition of the existing studies of indigenous and indigenised Christianity on the African continent, considere…

Much of Africa was transformed into a Christian continent within a few generations, changing profoundly the nature of the continent’s religion; but the spirits of the old religions did not necessarily disappear…

This study surveys the Christian doctrine of salvation in relation to the Malawian context. Following the tradition of other African theologians, particularly John Mbiti, Handwell Yotamu Hara argues that althou…

Though Malawi and Central Africa are now predominantly Christian countries, African tradition relgion remains important everywhere. Now a classic, this study was first published in 1979 against the background o…

According to popular thought, it was the doctrine of Justification that divided Rome and the Reformation in the 16th Century. However in a broader theological interpretation, the real breaking point was the que…