ABSTRACT
In the period prior to the liberation of South Africa (1994), African theologians often spoke, somewhat light-heartedly, of the difference between “theologies of being” and “theologies of bread,” using the Limpopo River as a boundary between these theological orientations.1 In more familiar terms, we spoke of “African/Inculturation theology” as the prevailing form of theology north of the Limpopo, and “Black/Liberation theology” as the prevailing form of theology south of the Limpopo.2 More analytically, theologies north of the Limpopo had an emphasis on the religious-cultural dimensions of African life, and theologies south of the Limpopo had an emphasis on the politicaleconomic dimensions of African life.
