Armah Finds True African Christianity

New Nation (January 12, 2009)

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He said: 'I can access Jesus the revolutionary, the protector of the dispossessed, through the lense of Africa and not through my 'masters', who often arrived with the Bible in one hand and a gun in the other.'

[Kwame Kwei Armah] said: 'All this talk about bringing Christianity to the dark continent was false. It had already been here 1,000 years before the first missionary arrived.'

Armah's documentary, entitled Dark Continents, also explores how African traditions and vibrant styles of worship are saving Christianity. It will be screened on 15 February.

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Armah Finds True African Christianity

PLAYWRIGHT AND former Casualty actor Kwame Kwei Armah says his mission to uncover the true history of ...

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