His seminal book, African Religions and Philosophy (1969), which challenged the long held view that traditional African religious ideas were ‘demonic’, has remained a masterpiece in Christian ...

At Dar es Salaam, Willy Mutunga remembers, Rodney taught outside official classrooms on Europe developing Africa. Religion and philosophy were Mbiti’s intellectual war fronts. He distinguished ...

The Project on Religion and Changing Patterns of Authority in Africa aspires to correct this oversight. It seeks to understand the role of spirituality in how ordinary people grapple with and ...