"DESCRIBING AN AFRICAN DANCING WITHOUT HEARING HIS MUSIC:" KEVIN HOWARD HAS GENERALLY MISUNDERSTOOD KWAME BEDIAKO

Abstract

Howard summed up Bediako’s volume by stating, “Theology and Identity…is significant in its scholarly contribution to African theology and in its key idea that African Tradition Religion (ATR) has more continuity, rather than discontinuity, with the gospel.”3 He posited, “The forest Bediako beckons us to venture into is interesting, but possibly dark and threatening.