Discussions of how religion and faith intersect with politics, culture, and society in Africa, including the roles of faith-based NGOs in humanitarian work.
Today we are sharing the open-access special issue of Meridians on “African Feminism – Cartographies for the 21st Century” with an extended introduction by issue co-editor, Dr. Gabeba Baderoon, […]
The CIHA Blog’s mission is to bring critical and religious voices to bear on the phenomenon of humanitarianism and related issues of justice. This book review demonstrates the ethical complexities […]
Happy New Year to all of our readers! We return this week with a post about the recent elections in Congo from our own Dr. Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula. In […]
The Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race (TRRR) is a community of discourse, focusing on religious responses to issues of race (and similarly functioning ethnic or cultural markers of social otherness) […]
The CIHA Team in South Africa recently attended the African Leaders of Peace Summit in Cape Town. This Summit brought together citizens from across Southern Africa including government ministries, civil […]
First, we would like to say Happy Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day to all of our readers! Today we are posting the second half of Thabang Nkadimeng’s piece, Migrations […]
In this week’s two-part guest post by Thabang Nkadimeng, we reflect on the nature and efficacy of sacramentals in religious circles and charms in popular culture. CIHA often highlights religious […]
We at CIHA are delighted to offer the following excerpts from the introduction to Dr. Ebenezer Obadare’s new book, Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria (Zed […]
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