Africa's Importance

I've been reminding people recently of the ideas of Andrew Walls that Africa will soon be influencing world Christianity. Christians are not the only ones interested in Africa:

• There are conferences to foster the place of Africa in the world: click here
• Stephen Hawking and other leading high-tech entrepreneurs and scientists have backed the £75m plan to create Africa’s first postgraduate centres for advanced maths and physics
• The Gates Foundation is helping East Africa: click here
• Certainly a Christian theologian, Thomas Oden has also initiated the The Center for Early African Christianity in conjunction with his recently published How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind by Thomas Oden.

Africa's return to importance in the American mind (not just fascination this time) is encouraging as we return to Africa.