“Sunsum” and “Honhom” in African Socioreligioculture and Spirituality
Edward Agboada 
& Peter Addai Mensah
Issue: Vol.5 No.13 Issue Article 9 pp. 2123-2130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20245139 | Published online 7th October, 2024
© 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Sunsum and Honhom in the African socioreligioculture and spirituality present a complexity of functionality and purpose that provides distinctive context to the interplay of dimensions that define existence (being). In any case, ‘existence’ or ‘being’ must possess distinctive functionality and a purpose that defines the specificity of their spiritual or physical purposes. The study which examines the meaning, significance and relevance of Sunsum and Honhom within the African socioreligioculture and spirituality attempts to decipher their implications for Christianity, Theology and Biblical scholarship especially in Africa and beyond. It used ethno-anthropology and socio-phenomenology which examined the meaning, significance and relevance of sunsum and honhom not just as a linguistic preference or juxtaposition but as a dimension, or functionality that establishes both an epistemology and a nomenclature that provide the right approach and methods for nurturing or relating with people or elements within the physical and spiritual cosmology. The study contributes to the ongoing discourse on the functionality of Sunsum and Honhom within African socioreligioculture and spirituality and how they affect how human beings or elements within the African Socioreligioculture and Spirituality are perceived or related to/with.
Keywords: Sunsum, Honhom, Honam, Spirituality, Africa
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Edward Agboada (Rev) is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Religious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana. He is an Ordained Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. He holds a variety of Academic and professional certificates including Certificate in Christian Ministry (TTS), Diploma in Theology (TTS), Bachelor of Divinity (TTS), MPhil-Religious Studies (KNUST), MEd- Educational Studies (PUC). Until recently he was a Senior Lecturer at the Ramseyer Training Centre, (Abetifi, Ghana). He taught courses in World Religions, Islamic Studies, Christian-Muslim relations, interfaith dialogue, Cross-Cultural Missions, New Religious Movements, Homiletic (Practice of Preaching), and studies in African Traditional Religions. Presently his research focus is African Christianity, Theology and Biblical scholarship.
Peter Addai-Mensah is a Catholic priest in the Catholic Archdiocese of Kumasi and a senior lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. He holds a Diploma in Theology from Legon, Ghana, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Master’s in Education from Boston College in Brighton, Massachusetts, and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research interests lie in theology and spirituality.
Agboada, Edward & Peter Addai Mensah.““Sunsum” and “Honhom” in African Socioreligioculture and Spirituality,” E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 5, no.13 (2024): 2123-2130. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20245139
© 2024 The Author(s). Published and Maintained by Noyam Journals. This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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