Mission Communion and Relationship addresses the urgent need for the churches in Africa to
positively respond to the crisis confronting the continent's young men. It calls for the church
to commit itself to providing alternatives to the various crises confronting male youths in
Africa (dislocation illiteracy streetism unemployment emigration crime imitation of
foreign cultures consumerism drug abuse promiscuity and HIV AIDS). Mission Communion and
Relationship argues that communion and solidarity with male youths is a missiological
imperative of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa which must work in concert with other
Christian denominations as well as Muslim and African Traditional Religion leaders. This
interdisciplinary book brings together insights from ecclesiology church history theological
anthropology and the social sciences as well as African and Western philosophy with concrete
ecclesial and human experiences. Mission Communion and Relationship sets forth a framework for
dealing with the cultural formation and religious development of male youths in ways that are
authentically African and Christian socially oriented and pastorally engaged.
