Stan Chu Ilo

African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

Foreword

“This book is a prophetic social critique of the negative characterization of infertility in African cultures and in some versions of traditional Christianity in Africa. It brings together a rich array of voices in Africa from different regions of the continent. These different theological traditions and bioethical positions are put into a healthy and creative conversation on these pages. I highly recommend this book to all as a unique contribution to African Christian studies, bioethics, womanist studies, and pastoral theology.”

Born from Lament

Theology

“Katongole in this book redefines the method for doing public theology in Africa and the world church by giving voice to those on the margins. He argues that hope in Africa should be presented not simply as a wish or pious claims but as a light that one can discover in Africa by following stories of faith, courage, and the practice of hopeful living among many African Christians.”

Communication in Mission and Development

Evangelism & Missions

“Jim Harries has written a pioneering and authoritative book on communication, mission, and development that should be read both for its intellectual depth and its illuminating proposals for intercultural communication between Africa and the West. . . . Mission will no longer be the same with the publication of this significant work of scholarship born from twenty-five years of prayers, reflections, and respectful and reciprocal encounters with African peoples.”

From Historical to Critical Post-Colonial Theology

Theology

“Robert Heaney has written a book of outstanding quality and depth. By employing critical cultural theories and comparative theological methods, he shows the strengths and promise of post-colonial African theologies represented in the writings of Mbiti and Mugambi. Heaney's book is a tour de force on the changing landscape of African theologies.”

Healing the Whole Person

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Healing the Whole Person is a timely and compelling roadmap for restoring holistic, patient-centered care in today’s healthcare systems. Grounded in research and lived clinical experience, it places the dignity, rights, and full humanity of patients—body, mind, and spirit—at the heart of healing. This book speaks to clinicians, chaplains, pastoral caregivers, and healthcare leaders who recognize that illness fractures more than the body. With clarity and compassion, it translates love, solidarity, and spiritual care into practical, everyday clinical practice—reminding us that when medicine meets presence, healing becomes truly whole.”

The Art of Contextual Theology

Theology

“Victor Ezigbo makes a convincing case in this book for a paradigm shift from an explanatory approach to a constitutive model of contextual theology. I highly recommend this book as an indispensable text to theologians, church ministers, faith-based Christian NGOs, and theology students. All those who are looking for a methodological road map for doing contextual and practical theology or mission studies anywhere in the world today will find a good guide in this book, which promises to be the most important scholarly contribution to World Christianity so far from this great African mind.”

Toward an African Theology of Fraternal Solidarity

Theology

“Okafor has offered to contemporary theological and social scientific studies of African social context a new language and framework for critical and creative analysis of African society through a relevant theology of community, social integration, and social transformation through reconciliation. This work offers a good model of how one can appropriate African cultural grammar and maps of the universe in crafting theological metaphors of the church and society which respond to the most pressing challenges facing Africans, African Christianity, and a world in dire need of reconciliation, justice, and peace.”