This also involves engaging in the dismantling of social systems that re-enforce poverty by preventing the poor from growing and playing a positive role in their own circumstances. No, certainly not. Religion itself is the opiate of the poor and the marginalised, often their only consolation. Indeed, indigenisation must involve the liberation of people from all forms of poverty. Indeed, a truly African theology cannot escape the reality of poverty and the need for its eradication in all its forms.
Poverty is more than just the absence of material wealth.
It obliterates all the nice distinctions between indigenisation and liberation in the reality of southern African life and calls for an integrative approach to ensure that all possible resources are mobilised to speed their upliftment. The solutions to these challenges, therefore, must be both cultural and political, that is, inculturationist and liberationist. It, therefore, seems to me that the problem related to indigenisation and liberation is twofold. The first is the lack of awareness of what constitutes culture. Culture is often narrowly defined in terms of the African traditional worldview, customs, beliefs, and symbols.