Reconciliation Paradigm in the Post Colonial Africa: A Critical Analysis

dc.contributor.authorGathogo, J.M.
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-16T09:14:48Z
dc.date.available2012-10-16T09:14:48Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionPublisher version (ingentaconnect) available at www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/rat/2012/.../art00004en_US
dc.description.abstractThe article sets out to stir up the debate on reconciliation project in the post colonial Africa. As we strategise on ways and means of delivering the promise of reconstruction, there is need to pay more attention on the reconciliation for individual and society. In other words, does reconciliation mean blanket forgiveness or reparation? How can we ensure that those who looted Africa account for their misdeeds without further complicating the situation? The article is set on the premise that even though there are many paradigms in African theology of the twenty-first century, minor paradigms (refer to reconciliation, liberation, inculturation, market-theology and charismatic among others) and the dominant paradigm (refer to reconstruction) are both critical in the holistic rebuilding of the post colonial Africa. This said; it is imperative to critically assess reconciliation as an important paradigm - as it runs concurrently with other paradigms in Africa today. In particular, are the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commissions taking place in various countries of the tropical Africa, since Tutu's South African sample of 1995, rooted in African cultural and religious heritage, and hence authentic? How can Africa go about her reconciliative phase?en_US
dc.identifier.citationReligion and Theology, Volume 19, Numbers 1-2, 2012 , pp. 74-91(18)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/5632
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIgentaconnecten_US
dc.subjectreconciliationen_US
dc.subjectparadigms in African theologyen_US
dc.subjectminor and dominant paradigmsen_US
dc.subjectTruthen_US
dc.subjectJustice and Reconciliation Commissionsen_US
dc.titleReconciliation Paradigm in the Post Colonial Africa: A Critical Analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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