The Range Of African Traditional Communication and the Development in Information Technology in the Church.
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2000-02
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
African traditional media had a strong tradition of Oral communication.
Apart from Islamic literature that can be traced in North Africa especially in Egypt
and Sub-Sahara, there was little opportunity or need for the development of
written materials, let alone newspapers, magazines, television or radio as in the
secular world or as we have it today in the church. It was only after the coming
of the early missionaries and the introduction of new Communication media and
literacy in Africa, that we saw the beginning of the local media and the
advancement of technological information in the church.
In this essay we shall see in Chapter One how the range of
communication from the African perspective, in advancement has evolved
historically. Then in Chapter two we shall look at how far modern information
technology of media in the church has been established, the problems being
encountered and search for the ranges of religion and mass media. This of
course has to do with the "word" or the messages involved in communication.
That is, messages have the capacity to influence people, thus owners of the
means of mass communication of different kind, indeed contain the power to
influence those who receive their message.
In Chapter three will examine the theological implications of
communication in our contemporary world , especially in meeting the challenges
that Christians face and how to give positive responses to the question people
out there are asking about media. Eventually will find a theology of communication and see how Jesus if he were alive today, the methods he would
use to spread the gospel.
Then finally we shall give in Chapter four the suggestion and
recommendation of communication in range of technological development in the
Church of Africa. It should not be taken for granted that the Media can perform
miracles in bringing transformation in the society. Otherwise this be left as one
of the methods; simple because "it" has to take careful planning analysis of the
phenomena that covers the whole communication process, and evaluation in
order to design and prepare communication that will achieve the desired results.
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Traditional Communication, Information Technology in the Church., African Traditional, Communication in Sub-Sahara, Modern Means of Communication, Communication and the Church, Communication in the Bible