WHAT IS NOT SACRED? AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY.

Abstract

This book comes after the publication of “African Religion in the Dialogue Debate: From Intolerance to Coexistence” in 2010; as Bénézet Bujo says in his foreword, “it stresses the view that African spirituality has its own autonomy and inherent
dignity, independent of contact with Christian and other models of spirituality” (p. ix). The book is made up of two main parts. Each of them has nine chapters with introduction. Each chapter begins with quotation of an African saying, proverb or a verse from the bible that captures the essence of its content. The title itself, as acknowledged by Magesa, is a result of a long reflection at the end of which he came across a Malian saying through the reading of Annette Miller’s collection of African proverbs.