Missiology in Africa: Authentically African, Magisterially Missional [reviewing Kwiyani, Harvey, ed. Africa Bears Witness: Mission Theology and Praxis in the 21st Century]

Abstract

The chapters of this ecumenical volume are built around the premise that mission theology must reflect the “polycentric and multidirectional nature of mission in the twenty-first century” (xi). Exploring “mission theology and practice taking place in Africa today” (xii), it makes African theologizing on mission accessible both to those of us who live here and to World Christianity at large. Its contributors represent Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia, as well as the African American Diasporic community. Editor and contributor Harvey Kwiyani is a Malawian missiologist and the founder and editor of Missio Africanus: A Journal of African Missiology. Because of its importance as a contribution to the literature on African missiology, this book warrants a review essay rather than a short review.