What is inculturation? How is it practiced and what is its relationship to colonial and
postcolonial discourses? In what ways if any does inculturation represent the decolonization
of Christianity in Africa? This book explores these questions and argues that inculturation is
a species of postcolonial discourse by placing it in the larger context of what has now come to
be known as Africanism and by showing how the latter - and through it inculturation itself -
fully participates in the history of postcolonial struggles for indigenous self-definition in
Africa. The thirteen contributors to this volume represent a group of young scholars from the
southern eastern and western regions of Africa. They come from different disciplines:
theology philosophy and biblical studies. Although they take different approaches to the
question of inculturation the fact that they engage it at all is illustrative of the
methodological significance of inculturation in African theology.
