By Y. Tesfai
ISBN-10: 0230104274
ISBN-13: 9780230104273
Of the various demanding situations dealing with Africa this day, there's the tendency of a few to control spiritual and ethnic identities for personal pursuits. The e-book examines how faith has given upward thrust to those stipulations in Africa, by means of weaving jointly problems with poverty, wealth, and violent conflicts.
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His counterparts seemed to have acquiesced to this line of argument. Sudan resisted by playing successfully the African card. The resultant stalemate showed that Africans were not ready to bring the issue into the public arena and argue the cases for and against the critical issues that served as the sources of the war, including religion and race. Criticisms of the AU were not lacking on this score. The second actors that are mentioned by Prof. Mutua are the Arabs. ” They could potentially play a significant role in addressing the crisis.
People had a stake in the correct interpretation of the Faith they adhered to. The debate in the public square was by all accounts edifying and refreshing and geared toward the solution of a faith-instigated and faithbased system or line of action. The chapter began by noting the similarities between the cases of South Africa and Sudan. They involved both religion and race. The only difference was that the perpetrators of racism in South Africa were whites while those in the Sudan claim to be Arabs.
3 Considering the bitterness of the past caused by religious views, one is bound to ask: Is this an anomaly or a taste of the future? Will religion also play a unifying role and become an instrument of peace as it had earlier been an instrument of war? It is a question that should be pursued and which cannot be neglected. The Missing Debate The case of South Africa showed that there were serious debates from within and without on the policy of Apartheid. Many Christian believers and religious leaders contributed their share to the discussion.
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