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    An African Indigenous Perspective of Initial Christian Religious Accompaniment
    (Tangaza University College, 2005-10) Santos Lobo, Isabel Dos
    This study is meant to address some of the anomalies observed in the initial formation of African candidates to Christian Religious Life. I shall attempt this by comparing Agikuyu initiation process with the Christian religious initial formation. The study is based on the assumption that there are many good values within the African initiation rites that could be applied in the formation of African young candidates to Christian Religious Life. Inculturation of Christian values within the African context implies searching for African ways of forming Africans. The current way of forming Africans has been successful as far as the adherence to religious life by Africans is concerned, but it is doubtful if it is effective and accommodative of the African culture. Do Africans feel at home right from their early stage of formation or do they perceive their formation as a foreign project? Do African formators feel free to bring in their cultural values to formation or they feel forced to follow the rigid European model of formation? These and other questions will constitute the core of this paper in order to seek for effective ways of forming candidates to Christian Religious Life.