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Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda critically examines the Church’s responsibility in Rwanda’s tragic history and opens the dialogue to construct a new theology. Contributors to this volume offer moving personal testimonies of their journeys to reconciling the evil that has marred the Church’s image: bystanders’ indifference to the suffering, despite their claim as members of the Church. The first volume of its kind, Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda is a necessary step toward the Rwandan Catholic Church and humanity’s restoration of fundamental peace and lasting reconciliation. Catholic clergy, lay people, and human rights advocates will benefit from this examination of ecclesial moral failure and subsequent reconciliatory efforts.

If you are wondering what to make of your life’s challenges, if you think that you have had enough of suffering, if you are on the threshold of giving up, if you are wondering where God is in your life in the midst of evil in the world, if you want to ignite the small candle of your life to make it even brighter, if you trusted people, including those you supported to rise from their ashes, and have been betrayed, if you ask what to make of priests who have caused you pain and those who have brought you joy, if you are not sure where you are heading in the midst of your family confusion, if you want to know how one can still speak about God after having suffered from the inhumanity of one’s fellow beings, if you wish to work for justice and be an instrument of justice, forgiveness, reconciliation and mercy in our troubled world, then this book is definitely for you. After you read the first three chapters of this book, I am confident that you will want to read the entire book. You may realise that what you are going through gains a whole new perspective. You will probably join Carl Jung who once said: “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

"Spreading the contagion of hope is the fundamental and solemn task of a leader in times of crisis" Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator. When leaders live up to their solemn responsibilities and their commitments - explains Orobator in this book that questions the deep root of theirs and our moral responsibility - «they can make the difference between light and darkness, between hope and despair, between life and death for the people who have the privilege of serving and protecting ». During one of the major health, ethical and political crises of recent decades, in a context of general disorientation, the leadership of Pope Francis was the only one to embody this difference, communicating a concrete vision of the future and hope in new and often unsettling ways. In the turbulent context of global affairs and its impact on our daily lives, Orobator invites us to understand and follow the exemplary action exercised by Francis through the keys of responsibility and trust, sacrifice and reciprocity, courage and dialogue. A spiritual lesson, of humility and service, from which emerges a fundamental and concrete legacy for anyone, lay or Catholic, intends to generate change in the social and civil spheres.

“This ambitious publication provides a comprehensive panorama of the evolution of higher education in East Africa, while at the same time weaving in an international reference framework that helps readers to understand the interplay of local influences and global forces in influencing the evolution of the East African higher education systems. The book shows us, in a comparative perspective, the many threads of their complex story, from the colonial era to the post-independence decades. It tells a tale of rapid quantitative expansion, institutional diversification with the growth of a sizeable private higher education sub-sector, careful efforts to put in place a strong quality assurance system, and investment in the development of a few leading research universities.” Prof. Salmi

Explores the impact of Jesuit missions on the development of Christianity in postcolonial French Africa, which found itself at the centre of major shifts and struggles within global Christianity and world politics. At a time when most African countries were moving towards independence, the Vatican was speeding up the Church's indigenization agenda in an effort to secure its survival in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, at the same time, African nationalism was on the rise and, following the collapse of its colonial empire, France was attempting to reassert its influence in Africa. This book shows how the Vatican, French Jesuits, the rising Cameroonian indigenous clergy and leadership, and the first Cameroonian Jesuits competed for the Catholic evangelization of French Africa during the mid-20th century. In the mission field, they also competed with different Protestant groups, with whom they shared acommon aim: to convert African traditional religionists and different groups of African Muslims to Christ, while containing the spread of anti-religious ideologies such as Communism. Tracing the rapid expansion of Christianity in Central and Western French Africa during the second half of the twentieth century, the author shows in this book how this competition for faith helped both build the church in French West Africa and Africanize the church alongside missionary Christianity in postcolonial Africa. He also explores the African reaction to this diverse and competing global agenda of Christianization, especially after Chad and Cameroon came together as part of a single Jesuit jurisdiction in 1973, and the way in which, despite differing...