To Think God in Africa: a Problem of Concepts and Changes

Abstract

This article stresses the idea of ‘God’ among African religions, aiming to insert the debate around it in the long speech concerning the supreme-being as unavoidable reality and as operative concept in the analyze of the religious. The long debate concerning the originality of the concept of ‘God’ among the African peoples is scholarly recognized and even knowing that ‘God’ is largely present across the continent is not possible to denied the historical process that took place in the statement of ‘Him’.