Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology2019-09-252019-09-252016-03-121994http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/235510"In Africa, where poverty and its complications are so acute, Yevtushenko's observation still rings true. There are empty pockets everywhere and this is cause for concern and action. Far more dangerous, however, are the empty souls that fill African cities, crowd African schoolrooms and drift through African churches and mosques. Africans need something to believe in. Kwame Nkrumah knew this back in the 1950s and he put himself forward as the black messiah"engWith permission of the license/copyright holdereconomyAfrican citiesAfrican churchesRussian societyReligious ethicsCommunity ethicsIntercultural and contextual theologiesAfrican theologiesChristian denominationsArticle