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Ujamaa: Resources

The Ujamaa Centre offers two kinds of resources to those who would like to collaborate and journey with us. We have a range of accessible, practical guides to Contextual Bible Study. These include:

1. Contextual Bible study. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications. This book is also available in Zulu.


2. Doing Contextual Bible Study: A Resource Manual (this manual is regularly updated). You are welcome to download this manual in three parts:

Note: Users with a dialup/slow Internet connection may find it difficult to download the above three files (which together are over ten megabytes in size). Here is a single PDF/Acrobat file containing the whole Contextual Bible Study manual (1.4 megabytes).


3. Tamar Campaign: Contextual Bible Study Manual on Gender-based Violence (this manual can be downloaded):


4. Powerpoint presentations of Contextual Bible Studies (PPT files)


5. Contextual Bible Studies on Land

The Ujamaa Centre has collaborated with the Church Land Programme and a number of Community Based Organisations to produce a series of Bible studies (in English and Zulu) on land issues. You can download them from this website.


6. Other academic resources

James, G.L. Tell it like it is! The case to include the story of the rape of Tamar in children's Bibles as an awareness tool.

Kumalo, S. "The people shall govern": now they have only the possibility to vote.

Kumalo, S. The palace, the parish and the power: Church-State relations in Rwanda and the genocide.

Kumalo, S. Transforming South African Methodism: the "Journey to the New Land" Programme 1992-1997.

West, G. O. (1997). Reading on the boundaries: reading 2 Samuel 21:1-14 with Rizpah. Scriptura, 63, 527-537.

West, G. O. (2006a). Contextual Bible reading: a South African case study. Analecta Bruxellensia, 11, 131-148.

West, G. O., & Zondi-Mabizela, P. (2004). The Bible story that became a campaign: the Tamar Campaign in South Africa (and beyond). Ministerial Formation, 103, 4-12.

West, G. O., Zondi-Mabizela, P., Maluleke, M., Khumalo, H., Matsepe, P. S., & Naidoo, M. (2004). Rape in the house of David: the biblical story of Tamar as a resource for transformation. Agenda, 61, 36-41.

West, G. O. (2007). Thabo Mbeki's Bible: the role of the religion in the South African public realm after liberation. October, draft paper. (RTF file)


7. Bible studies by Prof Tinyiko Maluleke (Unisa) published in Challenge Magazine: