TABLE OF CONTENTS
MASIIWA RAGIES GUNDA & JOACHIM KÜGLER
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................
SECTION 1:
THE BIBLE AND BROAD POLITICAL DISCOURSES IN AFRICA.......
MASIIWA RAGIES GUNDA
“REWRITING” THE BIBLE OR DE-BIBLIFYING THE PUBLIC SPHERE?
PROPOSALS AND PROPOSITIONS ON THE USAGE OF THE BIBLE BY
PUBLIC FIGURES IN ZIMBABWE..............................................................
ELIOT TOFA
THE BIBLE AND THE QUEST FOR DEMOCRACY AND
DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA: THE ZIMBABWE EXPERIENCE..................
JANNIE HUNTER
THE BIBLE AND THE QUEST FOR DEVELOPMENTAL JUSTICE:
THE CASE OF ORPHANS IN NAMIBIA......................................................
OBVIOUS VENGEYI
THE BIBLE IN THE SERVICE OF PAN-AFRICANISM: THE CASE OF
DR TAFATAONA MAHOSO’S PAN-AFRICAN BIBLICAL EXEGESIS................
GERALD WEST
THE ANC’S DEPLOYMENT OF RELIGION IN NATION BUILDING:
FROM THABO MBEKI, TO “THE RDP OF THE SOUL”, TO JACOB ZUMA..
JEPHTHAH KIARA GATHAKA
THE BIBLE AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: HOW BIBLICAL SCIENCE CAN
CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PLURALITY AND
DEMOCRACY, THE BIBLE AS A RELEVANT TOOL IN THE QUEST FOR
ENGENDERING PLURALITY...................................................................
SECTION 2:
SOME READINGS OF THE BIBLE
IN/FOR POLITICAL DISCOURSES IN AFRICA.................................
MOJI RUELE
CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGICAL READING OF THE BIBLE WITH INDIGENOUS
COMMUNITIES: THE CASE OF THE BASARWA/SAN IN BOTSWANA.........
PHILLEMON M. CHAMBURUKA
A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON ROMANS 13:1-
IN THE 21 ST CENTURY ZIMBABWEAN POLITICS......................................