African Catholicism and Hermeneutics of Culture

"Professor Ogbonnaya offers us a rich, provocative, and unsparingly candid assessment of African Catholicism in light of the Second African Synod. He urgently summons the church in Africa to take its rightful place as an agent of moral transformation and social reconciliation. His prescriptions for a genuinely liberative African social spirituality give me great hope that Africa can breathe new life into global Christianity, as he points the way to healing the psychic wounds that afflict believers not only in Africa, but in the African diaspora as well. This is a book not only for Africa, but the entire Catholic church."

--Bryan N. Massingale, Professor of Theological Ethics, Department of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI



"This is a book that every person in Africa and beyond should read, digest, meditate upon, and allow the ideas contained therein to challenge us for a change that is necessary and urgent. If we allow these thoughts to influence our actions and conduct, there will be salvation for the clergy and for the church, otherwise the revolution that will take place will be worse than that of the French Revolution and we, the clergy, will be in for it."

--The Most Rev. John I. Okoye, Bishop, Catholic Diocese, Awgu, Nigeria