Indigenous Religions Dressed in Designer Clothes: Afua Kuma Redefining Theology in World Christianity

Afua Kuma's prayers and analysis presents a "woman of deep faith" in God with unmatched indigenous conception of the Bible, and creative translation of the interdisciplinary nature of World Christianity. Surprisingly, she is hardly classified as a theologian, rather, as an 'illiterate Ghanaian woman' and her works regarded as, ‘not academic, but deeply theological.’ Thus, the question: what is theology? who is a theologian? What makes her prayers non-academic in comparison to other theological primary sources? What is the role of indigenous epistemologies in understanding World Christianity? This paper explores the development of indigenous epistemologies in world Christianity as depicted in contemporary Christian songs, spoken words and prayers in African Christianity. It argues that Afua Kuma, as an embodiment of conceptual decolonization of African theological epistemology, has successfully used her indigenous intelligence to translate Christianity through tradition, art and religious imagination.