Afua Kuma’s Prayers and Praises as Evidence of a Vibrant Primal Substructure in African Christianity
Joseph Awuah Gyebi 
Issue: Vol.7 No.12 December 2021 Issue Article 3 pp.229-241
DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.20217123 | Published online 29th December 2021.
© 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Following from the assertion that there exists a symbiosis between Christianity and the Primal Substructure in Africa, this paper sets out to examine Afua Kuma’s Jesus of the Deep Forest using Harold Turner’s six feature analysis of primal religions. It focuses on how Afua Kuma’s poetry builds upon the six features of the primal worldview with her new insights from the Christian faith. The author argues that this is evidence of the vibrant primal substructure in African Christianity. This article thus contributes to the growing body of scholarship on African Christianity and its primal underpinnings and Christianity as a non-Western religion
Keywords: Primal Worldview, African Christianity, Apae, Afua Kuma
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Rev. Joseph Awuah Gyebi is a PhD in Theology candidate at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology Mission and Culture, Akropong- Akuapem, Ghana. He is an Ordained Minister of the gospel at the Covenant Family Community Church, East Cantonments, Accra. He serves as a Trainer of trainers with Awana Clubs Ghana (Children ministry). He has research interests in African Christianity.
Gyebi, J.A., “Afua Kuma’s Prayers and Praises as Evidence of a Vibrant Primal Substructure in African Christianity ,” E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 7 no.12 (2021): 229-241 https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.20217123
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