The study examines two paradigms that have influenced the nature of the traditional culture and the gospel message relationships in Africa. On one hand, the dialectical paradigm was at the service of Europeans, notably missionaries for much of the colonial period. Missionaries perceived Africa in negative terms to the extent that the majority of them did not compromise their standpoint. That standpoint was to destroy every fabric of traditional African society. This was the foundation of a prejudicial 'centre-periphery' theory, to which Europeans subscribed. The study posits that it was this...