The African Mindset. Prt 2

I wrote a post (some time ago it seems…) where i was trying to ask what the African mindset is.  i guess i take my cue from the fact that we talk so much about the modern/post modern mindset within the Western world that i often wonder if that really applies to our situation here in Africa.  Are Africans (i know this is a generalizing question) modern? Post modern? Pre modern?  Or something completely different?  The reason i ask i hear a lot discussion goingon about missions philosophyand practise with a presumption that we all live in a “post modern” world.  Since when did the world turn postmodern?  Did i miss a memo or something?  And i think that one of the struggles i have as a white South African is that i do not understand the African way of thinking very well.  So i guess if i am going to take the Gospel to the other white South Africans only, since i sort of understand them better, then my missions focus is minute.  I guess i don’t want to take false presuppositions into cross cultural ministry and feel the need to better understand the African mindset (for lack of a better term).

~ by Anthony on March 30, 2007.