Background Information on Catholic Theology in Africa

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Affiliated Groups

African Theological Journals

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  • AFER: African Ecclesial Review (Eldoret, Kenya) *
  • African Christian Studies (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Au Coeur de l'Afrique (Bujumbura, Burundi)
  • Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology (The Ecumenical Association of Nigerian Theologians)
  • Grace and Truth (St. Joseph's Institute, Cedara)
  • Hekima Review (Nairobi) *
  • Journal of Black Theology in South Africa (Pretoria)
  • Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (Capetown)
  • Religion and Theology/Religine & Teologice (Pretoria)
  • Revue de l'Institut catholique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) *
  • Revue Africaine de Théologie (Kinshasa, Congo) *
  • St. Augustine Papers (South Africa)
  • Telema (Kinshasa, Congo) *
  • Missionalia (Menlo Park, South Africa)
  • Revue Africaine des Sciences de la Mission/African Review of Mission Studies (Kinshasa, Congo)

Episcopal Conferences

  • SECAM - the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar

Nine Regional Episcopal Conferences

  1. Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA), which includes Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
  2. Asscociation of Epsicopal Conferences of Anglophone Africa (AECAWA) which includes Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone
  3. Inter Regional Meeting of Bishops and Southern Africa (IMBISA) which includes Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nambia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Sáo Tome, and Principe
  4. Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) which include Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zare)
  5. Association des Conférence Episcopale Régionale de l'Afrique Centrale (ACERAC) which includes Congo, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea
  6. Conférence Episcopale Régionale de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (CERAO), which includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cape Verde, and Guinea Bissau
  7. Conférence Episcopale de Madagascar (CEM) which includes Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius, Comores, and Reunion
  8. Conférence Episcopale Régionale du Nord d'Afrique (CERNA) which includes Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia
  9. The Catholic Hierarchy of Egypt (AHCE) which includes Egypt and the Oriental Churches of Northern Africa.