Postcoloniality, Translation, and the Bible in Africa

Audience and Significance

This book is critically important for Bible translation theorists, postcolonial scholars, church leaders, and the general public interested in the history, politics, and nature of Bible translation work in Africa.

It is also useful to students of gender studies, political science, biblical studies, and history-of-colonization studies.

Content and Contribution

The book catalogs the major work that has been undertaken by African scholars.

This work critiques and contests colonial Bible translation narratives by privileging the importance of African oral vitality in rewriting the meaning of biblical texts in the African sociopolitical, political, and cultural contexts.