Integrity Journal of Arts and Humanities

Today the Christian churches and Christianity are thriving in Africa as almost cannot be found elsewhere. There are at least 685 million Christians on the continent. While Christianity is traversing the multi-coloured cultures of Africa, points of departure from the old western classical interpretation of the Bible exist. The work employs the historical description of the Bible to analyse the post-colonial interpretation of the Bible and the African feminist hermeneutics. It highlights the strands, issues and challenges facing the interpretation of the Bible in African context. The work shows that such interpretation of the Bible are threatened by issues like syncretism, universalism, Christo-paganism, elitist and separatist tenor of feminist theology, and feminist liberation theology that is too far rooted in gender and sex issues without being sufficiently concerned with other issues that affect women which include: underdevelopment, hunger, disease, political, economic, and religious exploitation. The last twenty one years have witnessed more progress towards developing African Christian theology; interpreting the Bible in African context, than in the past century. Hence, the translation of the one faith of Jesus Christ to Africans being it's very nature and motif, and the terrain should be tread with caution.