Open AccessAfua Kuma’s Prayers and Praises as Evidence of a Vibrant Primal Substructure in African Christianity
Author(s) -
Joseph Gyebi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of religious and theological studies/e-journal of religious and theological studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2821-8957
pISSN - 2458-7338
DOI - 10.38159/erats.20217123
Subject(s) - christianity , scholarship , faith , substructure , sociology , religious studies , theology , philosophy , political science , engineering , law , structural engineering
Following from the assertion that there exists a symbiosis between Christianity and the Primal Substructure in Africa, this paper sets out to examine Afua Kuma’s Jesus of the Deep Forest using Harold Turner’s six feature analysis of primal religions. It focuses on how Afua Kuma’s poetry builds upon the six features of the primal worldview with her new insights from the Christian faith. The author argues that this is evidence of the vibrant primal substructure in African Christianity. This article thus contributes to the growing body of scholarship on African Christianity and its primal underpinnings and Christianity as a non-Western religionKeywords: Primal Worldview, African Christianity, Apae, Afua Kuma