Africa

This volume explores secularity in Sub-Saharan Africa, an area long considered to be, to quote John Mbiti, “notoriously religious”, or lurking in the secular shadows. Our sources question these assumptions by showing how contemporary secularities in Africa emerged from specific socio-cultural histories, and political conflicts and contestations, as well as from colonial impositions and African interventions.

Organised thematically, the volume begins by showing how the constitutions of Afri...