Chammah J. Kaunda is a Zambian scholar and an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History, and Missiology at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa.
Since I write from an African Pentecostal theological perspective, I must ask: In what ways can a theology of blindness enable us to rethink the Spirit and Christ within postcolonial imperialism so they are not immediately reduced to spectacle?
In the space between celebration and condemnation, I ask: What happens to a person when the gaze of the public becomes so intense that the person can no longer be separated from what the public has made them represent?