RT Article
T1 African Political Theology and Post-Nationalist Nationalism: The Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Conflict
JF Political theology
VO 23
IS 7
SP 645
OP 661
A1 Ngong, David
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1840445130
AB This article is a Christian theological interrogation of the war in the Anglophone region of Cameroon between Cameroon’s army and Anglophone separatists who seek separation from Francophone Cameroon. It problematizes a facile understanding of Anglophone identity that places Anglophones on the one side and Francophones on the other, arguing that these identities are complex. It critiques theologies that appear to defend Anglophone separation arguing that these theologies are rooted in an inadequate understanding of liberation theology and a limited doctrine of providence. It proposes an African political theology that calls into question the theological legitimacy of the nation-state and seeks to transcend the binaries that often otherize and separate. This political theology, it is suggested, should have a pan-African and cosmopolitan vision.
K1 Ambazonia
K1 Cameroon Anglophone Crisis
K1 Colonialism
K1 Identity
K1 Liberation Theology
K1 Nation-state
K1 Nationalism
DO 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1930377