Diagnosis Through the Prophetic | Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 09/09/2022

The belief in witchcraft with its attendant accusations has remained part of the African religious mindset some two centuries after Christian mission work started. The reference to missionary work is important because witchcraft was often dismissed as a psychological delusion and the figment of human imagination. Witchcraft accusations have not gone away in spite of those denials. Witchcraft has been mainstreamed in African Christianity and many indigenous churches creating the ritual contexts for dealing with it as a reality of human life. This paper examines the phenomena of witchcraft and witchcraft accusations in contemporary Christianity in Africa in an attempt to articulate a missiological response to it.​

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu (PhD University of Birmingham) is President and Baeta-Grau Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostalism at Trinity Theological Seminary. He is the author of African Charismatics – Current Developments within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana (Brill, 2004), Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity: Interpretations from an African Context (Fortress Press, 2020), and Pentecostalism in Africa: Experiences from Ghana’s Charismatic Ministries (Fortress Press, 2021).