DIVINATION IN POST-MISSIONARY AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY

Abstract

The Christian churches in Africa are growing tremendously, and churches are breaking out virtually every day and metamorphosizing into new ones. The vocations to priestly and religious life are abundant. The number of pastors, evangelists, prophets, etc. can hardly be quantified. About ninety nine percent of the clergy men and women now in Africa are Africans. In spite of the evident success of missionary work in Africa seen in the teeming population of Africans who have embraced Christianity, there is an evident resilience of African traditional paradigms. This paper studied the issue of divination in Post-Missionary African Christianity. It employed the phenomenological method of inquiry in the collection and analysis of data. It observes that in spite of the celebrated success of Christianity in Africa, the issue of divination still persists, expressing itself in different forms of worship employed, especially by the Pentecostal Christian folk.