Notre Dame Press Partners with Knowledge Unlatched on Open Access Title
The University of Notre Dame Press is honored to partner with Knowledge Unlatched to announce the release of Who Are My People? Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa by Emmanuel Katongole as an open access PDF. This groundbreaking work won first place in the Catholic Media Association’s Book Awards in the Gender Issues category and brings to light the complex cultural challenges facing Africa in our present age. Katongole’s investigation argues that the recurring forms of violence in Africa reflect an ongoing crisis of belonging in three key markers of identity: ethnicity, religion, and land.
By examining the stories surrounding the foundations of modernity in Africa, Who Are My People? confronts collective assumptions, such as “nothing good comes out of Africa,” and how mindsets such as these lead to the propagation of environmental and social violence. “Katongole compellingly demonstrates that African theologians and the church must revisit the conversation on identity and the contours of Christian conversion to reimagine solutions to the continent’s perennial ecological and political challenges,” says Reading Religion.
Over the decades, our generation has witnessed the tragic effects of violence on the global political stage. The insights this work offers are paramount to developing a new social ethic that seeks to promote peace, both in Africa and around the world. Ideas as pertinent to the betterment of society as these need to be made available to the wider community in order to produce the greatest impact, and we are dedicated to doing our part to achieve this vision.
“On behalf of the Press, I extend thanks and gratitude to our partners for their commitment to the accessibility of knowledge,” says Steve Wrinn, director of Notre Dame Press. “Now more than ever, we must stay single-minded in our pursuit of truth, and Notre Dame Press is proud to collaborate with those who are steadfast in this goal.”
The open access web PDF can be downloaded from the Press’s website and is also available from our online partners, including JSTOR.
Notre Dame Press has worked with Knowledge Unlatched (KU) and their partners to make this book open access. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about Knowledge Unlatched and links to this and other Open Access versions can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.