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The joy over the growth of Christianity in Africa is also a challenge to all concerned to help Christianity take roots in, ennoble and become one with the cultural life of the numerous tribes of Africa. This missionary expectation is not yet fully realized in many local churches in Africa.
From these perspectives, Adolphus Chikezie Anuka inaugurates a new brand of concrete, target-oriented emphasis on dialogical inculturation. In this book, the Mmanwu cultural institution of the Igbo people of south eastern Nigeria stands in central focus, opening itself to the influences of Christian values as well as speaking to the religious assumptions of Christianity.
The theoretical results of this research work and its practical pastoral suggestions are both enlightening and appealing.

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