"Afro-American and African theologies," Josiah Young observes, hav much to teach us. Attesting to a God of liberation and indigenization, they rightly seek to send the cancer of white supremacy into remission."

In this pioneering study, Josiah Young critically examines the messages of North American black theology-with its emphasis on liberation and of the theology of postindependence Africa with its concern for indigen- ization-noting points of accord and divergence. He also provides a frame- work for a Pan-African theology co-authored by Afro-American and African theologians, one which affirms that "God may speak prophetically to us today through oppressed blacks-through their refusal to accept oppres sion, through their critical development of their cultures."

"Interdisciplinary in scope and ecumenical in perspective, this work is a brilliant contribution to scholarship on African theology and black theology. Young argues compellingly that a study of both theologies-which must include differences and similarities-teaches us a great deal about the significance of the church and the gospel to the liberation struggles of blacks in the United States and in the Third World. He writes with the historian's dedication to facts, the theologian's devotion to truth and com- passion, and the writer's ear for the truest sentence and the perfect word.