Dr Kenzo Mabiala gave a brilliant talk at the first Amahoro conference in Uganda in May 2007. Graeme Codrington recorded this on a handheld recorder - it’s worth persevering through the low quality because this lecture is sheer genius. Kenzo says that theological work done in Africa has the imperative to differ from theology from the West, and must have the courage to denouce Western theology - which “came of age during the rise of colonialism” - as being used to seeing itself as the centre around which other theologies must orient themselves (in other words: theological arrogance which claims that Western theology is the only correct theology, and all other theologies need to understand themselves in relation to Western theology).

This is the best lecture I have heard in 2007. Graeme posted his summary at his Regeneration blog.

amahoro01_Mabiala_Kenzo.mp3 (size 5.9 MB’s).