I myself believe I am an exponent of Black Theology coming as I do from South Africa. Tutu danced across the theological discord and poignantly proclaimed African and Black theology to be “soulmates” in his essay “Black Theology/African Theology-Soul Mates or Antagonists?” He writes: Where Cone felt that African theology was often apolitical and had little to offer the political and existential struggles of Black peoples, Mbiti argued that Cone’s Black theology was too concerned with Blackness and political liberation, and thus lacked Christianity’s salvific joy and theological revelation. Cone, the giant of Black Liberation Theology, and Kenyan-born John Mbiti, the father of African theology, at a high point for global Black solidarity. At issue was the discord between American James H. Two years after Ibrahim and Dyani sounded “Ntsikana’s Bell”-the sonic invocation of the complex and often conflicting theological relationship between Africa and Afro-Diaspora-the late Tata Desmond Mpilo Tutu, a theological jazzman known for his lively preaching and improvised dance, intervened in a simmering theological divide. Our Black prophetic traditions call us to hear our sisters’ cries, yet the anguishes and aspirations of today’s prophets tend to be local and national.
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