Well, even if you do not mean to be exclusive, don’t you think that ‘In Africa for Africa’ is a bit patronising to African students?
Goodness! The interpretations you think of! No, we are not being patronising. We believe that students who graduate successfully from the NEGST PhD will be able to take their scholarship anywhere at international level. But they will do so with an edge to it: for a change, instead of biblical scholarship following the western agenda, western ways of thinking, western issues of interest, NEGST doctoral graduates will have spent their time on the African church’s agenda, thinking and interest areas. This will be a turn around. At the moment, western scholarship represents a Christianity that is no longer dominant on the world stage, but it still controls the scholarly agenda. The bottom line is that we want to educate scholars for Africa, and we don’t think we need to justify this, do you?
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