The purpose of the Pan-African movement or African theology...

The purpose of the Pan-African movement or African theology is to promote an African expression of the interpretation of the Gospel.6 Bruce Fleming, another missiologist, explains contextualization with reference to the following three terms: supra cultural, Trans cultural and cultural.7 Supra cultural, Fleming explains, is the framework revealed in the Scripture.

In other words, it is the Biblical Christianity and truth that can never be compromised during the course of cross-cultural communication. While Christian experiences learnt through history, Christian tradition are termed `trans cultural' , `cultural' simply implies the construction or development of a native Christian theology. However, Charles R. Taber offers a more lucid definition.

“Con­textualization”, he says, “is the effort to understand and take seriously the specific context of each human group and person on its own terms and in all its dimensions-cultural, religious, social, political,…