ABSTRACT
The silence of African Indigenous Religions on HIV and AIDS is eloquent. The author thinks that one significant step towards charting the way forward in HIV/AIDS and theological studies must begin with all of us taking note of our lives and our engagement with the HIV/AIDS context in the first 25 years and planning our studies in religion/theological education/training for the current 25 years within an HIV/AIDS context. Between 1992 and 1997, the author went away to Vanderbilt University in the USA to do my Ph. D. in New Testament Studies. The story of HIV/AIDS had moved on from a smoldering storm at a distance and had begun to hit the ground in the author's country. The HIV/AIDS struggle therefore was a multi-sectoral approach; it was everybody's business. A big break came, when an Africa-wide ecumenical mobilization of the church culminated in the Plan of Action, which listed theology and ethics as central to constructive response to HIV/AIDS.
