The Christian Century

A century ago, William Wade Harris began his march across the Ivory Coast. He proclaimed a Christ who was not the property of the master race.

Kenyan Muslims are a marginalized minority. Many are concentrated in Coast Province, where unfair land distribution is a festering wound.

The developed world's negligence has produced one of Africa's cruelest ironies: its farmers are its hungriest people.

After ten years, the ICC has convicted someone: Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga. But why does the court only investigate situations in Africa?

Orthodoxy's roots in Egypt and Ethiopia are ancient. In East Africa there is a younger movement: a native Orthodoxy, locally grown.

If Martin Luther King Jr. had written a book exposing his personal failings, it would have been seen as undermining his cause. But Leymah Gbowee does not want to be thought of as a hero.

Here is my unscientific rule: if Martin Luther treated a biblical book with disdain, then that book is really popular in modern Africa.