For the next six Fridays (March 25–April 29), Professor Herbert Moyo, Drake’s Spring 2022 Principal Global-Scholar-in-Residence, sponsored by the Principal Center for Global Citizenship within the Office of Global Engagement, will be giving a series of presentations about religion in Africa, focusing especially on traditional African religion and African Christianities in southern Africa.

Among the topics to be covered are:

• African cultural and religious worldviews in general (3/25),
• Messianic African Christianities (4/1)
• Healing in African Zionist churches (4/8)
• Traditional healers and the ancestors (4/15)
• Witchcraft (4/22)
• Protestant Christianity (4/29)

Professor Herbert Moyo is associate professor of theology and religion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. His research focuses on the philosophical analysis of religio-cultural practices among the Nguni in Southern Africa, including African religio-cultural practices, African Christianities, Indigenous African ritual practices, and the marriage between African indigenous religio-cultural practices and Christianities.

Each seminar will be held from 12–1 p.m. in Medbury Honors Lounge.

For more information, please contact Professor Herbert Moyo (moyoh@ukzn.ac.za) or Tim Knepper (tim.knepper@drake.edu).

— Annique Kiel, Global Engagment