Joseph Tonda is an influential Gabon-based social theorist writing in French. In 2021, his book Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa was translated into English, and in 2026 Postcolonial Imperialism: Critique of the Society of Dazzlements was translated. Many of his writings on religion have not yet been translated into English.
We invited four scholars to respond to Tonda’s Postcolonial Imperialism, reflecting on what in contributes to conversations in political theology — and on how conversations in political theology might put pressure on the book’s argument.
