Wotsuna Khamalwa (University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, UK)

Submitted: Sun, 30 June 2002


Dr. Wotsuna Khamalwa
Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellowship
University of Wales
Lampeter
Ceredigion
SA48 7ED
Wales
UK

Mail address:
Dept. of Theology
Religious Studies and Islamic Studies
University of Wales
Lampeter
Ceredigion
SA 48 7ED
Wales
UK

phone:   0044 1570 424948 (office)
         Mobile: 0044 7881601797
e-mail:  w.khamalwa@lamp.ac.uk
 -or- khamalwa@hotmail.com 



Education:  Ph.D., Universität Bayreuth, Germany M.A./Licentiate 
Catholic University of East Africa;. B.Phil; Università Urbaniana, 
Rome

Activities:  Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Egerton
University, Kenya, 1990-1999; Part time Lecturer, CUEA, Nairobi, Kenya,
1998-1999; Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Religious Studies, Makerere
University, Uganda 2001-2002; and currently, Leverhulme Visiting Research
Fellow, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK.

Research Interests:  Africanisation of Christianity (Inculturation); Culture
and Identity in Africa Religion; Society and International Relations;
Globalisation and African Liberation Theology


Publications:

1994   	"The Africanisation of Missionary Christianity: Focus on
Inculturation." Journal of the Geography of Religion and Environment
Research, Universität Verlag Dr. Brockmeyer, Vol. 10, Bochum, Germany 
1994.

	"Ancestor Veneration: Its Usefulness in the Africanisation of Mission 
Christianity," in Journal of the Geography of Religion and Environment 
Research, Universität Verlag Dr. Brockmeyer, Vol. 10, Bochum, Germany.

1993	"The Role of the Laity in the Church," in African Christian Studies, 
Vol. 9, Number 1, March 1993.


Book reviews:

1996	"Bishop Alfred G. Dunston Jr., The Blackman in the Old Testament and 
	its World. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1992," in 
	Egerton University Journal, Vol.1(2), 1996: pp. 330-334. 

Conference presentations:

2002    "Africanisation of Christianity: Inculturation or Liberation?"
	University of Wales, Lampeter, March 13th 

2000	"The Ritual Significance of Imbalu: Masaba Cultural Initiation"
	The Royal African Film Festival, School of African and Oriental Studies, 
	University of London, 14 December.

	"Religious Fundamentalism in East Africa". Annual Conference of 
	"German Friends of Kenya", Seckach, Germany, 9th July.

	"Tövdlisches Heil: Zum Massen (selbst?) Mord in Uganda"
	Das Afrikazentrums der Universität Bayreuth, 13 April.

1998	"The Rite of Imbalu, Masaba Cultural Initiation"
	Ethnological Colloquium, Das Afrikazentrums, Bayreuth University,
	Germany, 9th June.
	
	"Transition and Transformation in African Cultural Initiation"
	Conference of the Geography of Religion and Environmental Research,
	Bochum University, Germany, 3-5 July.
	
	"African Cultural Initiation and Christian Initiation Sacraments: An 
	Inculturation"  Annual Conference of Bavarian Missiologists and 
	Historians of Religion, Thurnau, Germany, 27th June.

Participation in recent conferences:

2001	Innovations and their Contextualisation in African Islamic 
	Societies, Bayreuth University, Germany, 9-10 February 

	Pentecostalism and Globalisation, Bayreuth University, Germany,
	24-25 March. Genetechnic- Chancen und Risiken, N|renberg, Germany, 22-25
	February.