ABSTRACT
The resurgence of global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity (PCC) in the last forty years and its influence in Africa are reshaping not only the face of religion and culture on the continent but also more importantly the performance of politics. Increasingly from one sub-Saharan African country to another, the PCC constituency has grown, such that born-again Christians have become both economically and politically more assertive, claiming public decision-making power as well as interrogating the nature of the secular, postcolonial Africa state. African Pentecostal Christians do not just want to go to God’s heavenly kingdom; they wish to dominate earthly territories, and build new “Charismatic Kingdoms” characterised by the exercise of “God’s kingdom values”. Drawing examples from Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, the chapter describes and interrogates Pentecostal exercise of political dominion and performance of political power vis-à-vis the secularity and socio-economic underperformance of the postcolonial African state.
