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David Tonghou Ngong

David Ngong, originally from Cameroon, is Professor of Religion and Theology at Stillman College, a historically Black college in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His work focuses on the historical and theological study of African Christianity, drawing from anticolonial, Black critical, and decolonial thought. His current research examines African political theology. He has published widely including, most recently, on Senghor and Negritude: Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology (Baylor University Press, 2023).

Essays

Senghor, Negritude, and Political Community

Translating Senghor’s political writings shows the continued relevance of Negritude in the conceptualization of political community in the wake of the encounter between Africa and Euro-America. However, framing the translation, like engaging any of Senghor’s work, ought to pay close attention to his African critics.

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.