David Tonghou Ngong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1081195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Tonghou Ngong |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Tonghou |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngong |
| SIGNATURE | NGONG D T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stillman College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3928-4202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Memorializing the Unsung: The Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism, written by Uzukwu, Elochukwu E
Providence and History in Christopher Tounsel's Chosen Peoples
CHOSEN PEOPLES: CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN SOUTH SUDANBy Christopher Tounsel. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 205. Paper, $25.95. I am very pleased to have been invited to contribute to the ongoing discussion of this important book. I first saw it before it had a cover, on the website of Duke University Press. It was around 2019 or early 2020 when I was doing research for a similar project in another African country,…
The Mbiti-Cone Debate and the Study of African Religiosity
The study of Africana religiosity has often focused on African influences on African diaspora religiosity but rarely the other way round, that is, on African diaspora influences on African religiosity. The rare instance when the focus was on African diaspora influence on African religiosity was the case of Black theology. However, when Black theology came to the continent, it was mired in the debate of its relevance to Africans. This debate was p…
Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice, written by Falola, Toyin
No Condition Is Permanent: Time as Method in Contemporary African Christian Theology
This article argues that contemporary African Christian theology has largely understood time from a modern, linear perspective, which sees history as progress. Interestingly, the perception of history as progress is the straitjacket into which the story of Africa in the modern world has been told, often depicting the continent as needing to catch up with the progressive time of the modern world. This progressive, linear view of time is, however, …
African Political Theology and Post-Nationalist Nationalism: The Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Conflict
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 argui…
What is the Disease? Engaging the Problem of Witchcraft in Africa
Domination and Resistance: Lamin Sanneh, Eboussi Boulaga, and the Reinterpretation of Christianity in Africa
This article engages the work of two prominent but recently deceased scholars of African Christianity—the Gambian Lamin Sanneh and the Cameroonian Fabien Eboussi Boulaga. It argues that their reinterpretation of Christianity is designed to develop an imagination of resistance in the context of western domination in Africa. Sanneh approaches the matter from a historical perspective through which he narrates the emergence of a new form of Christian…
Recent developments in African political theology
Focusing on African Christian theology, this study builds on the taxonomy of African political theology provided by Emmanuel Katongole whose conception of African political theology locates it within the context of the nation state. The study however goes beyond Katongole's taxonomy to discuss other forms of political theology that are important in Africa today. It proposes a new form of political theology that goes beyond the nation state to enc…
Contesting Conversions in African Christian Theology: Engaging the Political Theology of Emmanuel Katongole
This article argues that Emmanuel Katongole’s theology focuses on contesting conversions in African Christianity. To him, conversions that have so far taken place in much of African Christianity, especially those informed by the theology of inculturation, have not adequately emphasized the formation of critical Christian social imagination that would challenge the violent politics of the postcolonial nation-state in Africa. The article engages Ka…
The Theologian as Critic: The Contribution of Tinyiko Sam Maluleke
Tinyiko Sam Maluleke is a prolific South African theologian whose work mounts a thoroughgoing critique of the status of Christianity in contemporary sub‐Saharan Africa. Situating his work within its archival context, this article argues that the work of Maluleke emphasizes the vocation of the theologian as critic. The essay looks at some key themes in his work and suggests that Maluleke's critique of African Christianity is soteriological in natu…
Reading the Bible in Africa
This paper describes inculturation biblical reading in a narrow way to include mainly that reading of the Bible that takes for granted what is believed to be a peculiarly African spiritualistic cosmology. A central element of this method includes pitting a supposedly African spiritualized cosmology against a supposedly Western rationalistic and disenchanted cosmology. Proponents of this method claim that a relevant biblical interpretation in the …
Stifling the Imagination: A Critique of Anthropological and Religious Normalization of Witchcraft in Africa
Recent anthropological and religious, especially Christian, discourses on African witchcraft normalize the witchcraft imagination on the continent by failing to show how damaging the imagination has been to Africa’s move toward modernization. While anthropologists normalize it by studying the phenomenon ahistorically and by rationalizing and reinterpreting it, scholars and preachers of African Christianity see it as the context necessary for the …
Salvation and Materialism in African Theology
The Social History of Christianity in South Africa 1487 to 1994
Salvation and Materialism in African Theology
African Political Theology and Post-Nationalist Nationalism: The Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Conflict
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 argui…
Stifling the Imagination: A Critique of Anthropological and Religious Normalization of Witchcraft in Africa
Recent anthropological and religious, especially Christian, discourses on African witchcraft normalize the witchcraft imagination on the continent by failing to show how damaging the imagination has been to Africa’s move toward modernization. While anthropologists normalize it by studying the phenomenon ahistorically and by rationalizing and reinterpreting it, scholars and preachers of African Christianity see it as the context necessary for the …
Recent developments in African political theology
Focusing on African Christian theology, this study builds on the taxonomy of African political theology provided by Emmanuel Katongole whose conception of African political theology locates it within the context of the nation state. The study however goes beyond Katongole's taxonomy to discuss other forms of political theology that are important in Africa today. It proposes a new form of political theology that goes beyond the nation state to enc…
Contesting Conversions in African Christian Theology: Engaging the Political Theology of Emmanuel Katongole
This article argues that Emmanuel Katongole’s theology focuses on contesting conversions in African Christianity. To him, conversions that have so far taken place in much of African Christianity, especially those informed by the theology of inculturation, have not adequately emphasized the formation of critical Christian social imagination that would challenge the violent politics of the postcolonial nation-state in Africa. The article engages Ka…
Salvation and Materialism in African Theology
The Social History of Christianity in South Africa 1487 to 1994
Stifling the Imagination: A Critique of Anthropological and Religious Normalization of Witchcraft in Africa
Recent anthropological and religious, especially Christian, discourses on African witchcraft normalize the witchcraft imagination on the continent by failing to show how damaging the imagination has been to Africa’s move toward modernization. While anthropologists normalize it by studying the phenomenon ahistorically and by rationalizing and reinterpreting it, scholars and preachers of African Christianity see it as the context necessary for the …
Reading the Bible in Africa
This paper describes inculturation biblical reading in a narrow way to include mainly that reading of the Bible that takes for granted what is believed to be a peculiarly African spiritualistic cosmology. A central element of this method includes pitting a supposedly African spiritualized cosmology against a supposedly Western rationalistic and disenchanted cosmology. Proponents of this method claim that a relevant biblical interpretation in the …
The Theologian as Critic: The Contribution of Tinyiko Sam Maluleke
Tinyiko Sam Maluleke is a prolific South African theologian whose work mounts a thoroughgoing critique of the status of Christianity in contemporary sub‐Saharan Africa. Situating his work within its archival context, this article argues that the work of Maluleke emphasizes the vocation of the theologian as critic. The essay looks at some key themes in his work and suggests that Maluleke's critique of African Christianity is soteriological in natu…
Contesting Conversions in African Christian Theology: Engaging the Political Theology of Emmanuel Katongole
This article argues that Emmanuel Katongole’s theology focuses on contesting conversions in African Christianity. To him, conversions that have so far taken place in much of African Christianity, especially those informed by the theology of inculturation, have not adequately emphasized the formation of critical Christian social imagination that would challenge the violent politics of the postcolonial nation-state in Africa. The article engages Ka…
What is the Disease? Engaging the Problem of Witchcraft in Africa
Domination and Resistance: Lamin Sanneh, Eboussi Boulaga, and the Reinterpretation of Christianity in Africa
This article engages the work of two prominent but recently deceased scholars of African Christianity—the Gambian Lamin Sanneh and the Cameroonian Fabien Eboussi Boulaga. It argues that their reinterpretation of Christianity is designed to develop an imagination of resistance in the context of western domination in Africa. Sanneh approaches the matter from a historical perspective through which he narrates the emergence of a new form of Christian…
Recent developments in African political theology
Focusing on African Christian theology, this study builds on the taxonomy of African political theology provided by Emmanuel Katongole whose conception of African political theology locates it within the context of the nation state. The study however goes beyond Katongole's taxonomy to discuss other forms of political theology that are important in Africa today. It proposes a new form of political theology that goes beyond the nation state to enc…
No Condition Is Permanent: Time as Method in Contemporary African Christian Theology
This article argues that contemporary African Christian theology has largely understood time from a modern, linear perspective, which sees history as progress. Interestingly, the perception of history as progress is the straitjacket into which the story of Africa in the modern world has been told, often depicting the continent as needing to catch up with the progressive time of the modern world. This progressive, linear view of time is, however, …
African Political Theology and Post-Nationalist Nationalism: The Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Conflict
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 argui…
Providence and History in Christopher Tounsel's Chosen Peoples
CHOSEN PEOPLES: CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN SOUTH SUDANBy Christopher Tounsel. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 205. Paper, $25.95. I am very pleased to have been invited to contribute to the ongoing discussion of this important book. I first saw it before it had a cover, on the website of Duke University Press. It was around 2019 or early 2020 when I was doing research for a similar project in another African country,…
The Mbiti-Cone Debate and the Study of African Religiosity
The study of Africana religiosity has often focused on African influences on African diaspora religiosity but rarely the other way round, that is, on African diaspora influences on African religiosity. The rare instance when the focus was on African diaspora influence on African religiosity was the case of Black theology. However, when Black theology came to the continent, it was mired in the debate of its relevance to Africans. This debate was p…
Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice, written by Falola, Toyin
Memorializing the Unsung: The Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism, written by Uzukwu, Elochukwu E
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Christianity (7 works)