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The work makes it possible to make a clarification necessary for the emergence of an autonomous African theology, in total epistemological break with the other dominant theologies.

The monotheism born in the valley of the Nile, was the work of the Kame people. More than 2000 years before the biblical era, Egypt offered the world the conception of an initial principle prior to creation. Atum, the Complete-Being or Plenitude of Being and non-Being, is not plural.

To tell the truth, monotheism is a misnomer. It covers a problem foreign to Africa. Akhenation could claim its paternity to oppose it to polytheism only within a discourse which reveals hermeneutical tinkering. But he knew well how to be faithful to his ancestors who did not care about a senseless opposition.

At the Academy of African Thought, Sylvain Kalamba Nsapo favors the term Monoorigism to the detriment of anything that has a confused status. Faithful to the monoorigism of his ancestors, Akhenaton had no interest in combating polytheistic fiction or opposing it to monotheistic invention.

Doctor in theology, S. Kalamba Nsapo, has already published two books with the Open Society editions: The ecclesiologies of sub-Saharan African episcopates. Essay on content analysis (2000) and African Theology. Question of method today (2003). Another publication in African University Publications: African Christians in Europe! For an ecclesiology of mutual respect and intercontinental reciprocity (2004). He is the author of several articles on African theology and directs the review Cheik Anta Diop in Brussels.

MONOTHEISM

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