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David Tonghou Ngong

David Tonghou Ngong is Professor of Religion and Theology and Chair of the Department of Religion and Theology at Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is author of the upcoming Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology (Baylor University Press, 2023). His work focuses on African political theology and Christianity and African cultures.

Essays

Toward A Theological Decolonization of the Nation-State in Africa

How does one read, providentially, such a murderous and malleable phenomenon as the nation-state in Africa?

<strong>Reclaiming Negritude in African Political Theology</strong>

In his book Senghor’s Eucharist, introduced here, David Tonghou Ngong focuses on Senghor’s poetry collection called Black Hosts as a starting point for understanding his political theology. He argues that Black Hosts is a Eucharistic theology that calls for the reclamation of the Eucharist for the remaking of the world.