Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

The problem of knowledge is an age-long and perennial problem. Its effect is vast and farreaching, even in religion. For religion though divinely inspired is woven on the finest enlightened fabrics of human knowledge. This accounts for the many dialogical squabbles in the inter-religious dialogue fronts of virtually all religions. As a matter of fact, Christianity and African Traditional Religion are in this conflict regarding knowledge and its authenticity too. While Christianity propelled by the western cultural fuel labels African Indigenous knowledge as evil, archaic, barbaric, fetish or inadequate, the African indigenous knowledge tends to retaliate by reaffirming itself and seeing Christianity as a cruel usurper, an imposter, a recluse, an ignorant and social misfit to mention but a few. Be that as it may, the front of meeting between the two brands of knowledge in view must not always be of conflict. Rather the two knowledge orders are two sides of the same coin; they are two modes of perceiving reality since the popular saying goes that there are many ways to kill a rat. Given the circumstance, this paper is geared toward underscoring the salient points of convergence between the western-driven knowledge of Christianity and the African Indigenous knowledge, notwithstanding there points of divergence too.

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