A Comparative Study of African Celibacy and Christian Celibacy with Reference to the Karanga People of Zimbabwe

Abstract

This paper is about a comparative study of African celibacy and Christian celibacy with reference to the Karanga people in 7imbabwe. The motivation or writing is to gather values from A Irican and Christian celibacy that can help to stabilize the tarnished Christian celibaci, with scandals. It seems as if traditional celibates were more responsible than some Christian celibates. So, there is a need to address Me problem. The aim of the work is to show how the African traditional celibates lived and how the Christian celibates are lk lug and struggling. I will then give my personal recommendation on how to impro \ e our celibate life loch) in /imbabwe. The organization of the paper is in li\e chapters. The First chapter deals with the history of celibac:, among the Karanga people This chapter is basically based on interviews with people. The second chapter looks at celibacy in the scripture. Does the scripture support celibac)? the third chapter explains what the mother Church says about celibac . In the fourth chapter. I am going to tackle some problems the Zimbabwean Church is lacing. The last chapter points out similarities and differences between African celibac \ and Christian celibacy. It is in this chapter that possible solutions are recommended on how to It\ c a celibate life faithfully Nis will be closed with a general conclusion.