The article sets out to answer the question, “How effective were Anglican Archbishop David Gitari’s methods and approaches in his crusade for multiparty democracy in Kenya between 1986 and 1991?” To address the ...

This article describes the church and state relations in Rwanda and their impact on the genocide. Drawing on interviews conducted with three Rwandan theological students, it argues that the ambiguous role played by ...

This article is intended to show how the use of oral history as a methodology can be helpful, yet may sometimes lead to distortions. Some of the information addressed in this article has already been documented, but ...

The process of raising African bishops in the Anglican Church in Malawi between 1924 and 2000 was a long one hampered by many setbacks. The basic obstacle was the missionary consideration that the Anglican episcopate ...

The Natal Witness newspaper published a total of 1 248 different issues within a period of four years, between the 1 January 1987 and 30 December 1990. Those daily news issues included a total of 266 AIDS-related articles. ...

B Sundkler, G Oosthuizen and others have written about P L le Roux, who was sent by Andrew Murray to serve as a DRC missionary among the Zulus in Wakkerstroom. In 1903 he left the DRC to join a church of dubious reputation ...

This article tries to uncover some of the factors that led to the phenomenal growth of the Hatfield Christian Church in Pretoria. The documentation starts with the relatively unknown early history of the church. Specific ...

A comparison between the two colonial wars at the beginning of the 20th century underlines the fact that European colonial praxis involved a strange dichotomy between a brutal hunger for power and money, on the one hand, ...