Dreams are important in Africa. They guide and they also disturb. Yet when Christians try to find meaning in their dreams, they have to juggle with very different worldviews: African traditions in regards to dreams, Biblical and Christian traditions, and Western psychological traditions. Such worldviews are built on very different premises in regards to the implicit understandings of human nature. Yet there are also significant meeting points that can be used to make an approach to dreams sound: from an African perspective, a Christian perspective and a psychological perspective. This book...

What does the Christian faith offer to people in the remote Luangwa Valley of Zambia? How does it link up, or not link up, with their values, life-experience and knowledge of God and the unseen world The first Catholic missionaries opened a mission station in the Luangwa valley in 1904, but they left the valley barely seven months later. They had found greener pastures elsewhere. Within the next 100 years of evangelisation, the valley was witnessing periods of renewed impetus, but the specific conditions of the valley found only very few considerations in the pastoral plans of the established...

A history of the Bena Kabende and Batwa people of Zambia, narrated by elders, chiefs, headwomen and headmen in the Bemba language.