Keywords
ancestors
African feminist interpretation
historical dimension
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Abstract
Madipoane Masenya’s search for an interpretive approach that would enable her to read Proverbs and eventually other parts of the Hebrew Bible from an African-South African woman’s perspective led her to develop what she calls a bosadi approach to biblical texts. The article considers the reception of Masenya’s bosadi approach in other sub-Saharan contexts, analysing five scholars who have been inspired by Masenya to do similar studies. The question that is raised is how a consciously contextual approach like bosadi is re-contextualised into other Sub-Saharan contexts than the original Northern Sotho/African-South African one: Kondemo (DRC), Mudimeli (Vhavenḓa, South Africa), Ramaribana (Botswana), Mbowe (Maasai, Tanzania) and Wee (Madagascar).
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