Join the IHE for a discussion of African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church (Harvard University Press, 2022) with author Dr. Elizabeth Foster, Father Gabriel Mmassi, S.J., and Dr. Daniel Philphott.

African Catholic offers a groundbreaking history of how Africans in the French Empire embraced both African independence and their Catholic faith during the upheaval of decolonization, oversaw political transitions to independence, contributed to black intellectual currents as Catholics, and worked to create an authentically “African” church.