Traditional Africa

The first members of the Sillon Noir come from traditional Africa.  To begin the movement of inculturation, they did not start from their ancestral wisdom, nor from their various mastery of the semantic innovations of their ancestors, but from the faith in Christ, in the name of which they endeavored to give shape to the Christian community. African. The context of Mission Day in 1970, when their dialogue with the young preacher of the parish of Saint Francis of Assisi in Bohicon was inaugurated, remains decisive for the whole future of the work of evangelization in the traditional milieu. The true basis of all the effort of inculturated evangelization remained, for them and for the whole movement, faith in Christ. It is therefore in their ranks that the Sillon Noir counted its first victims of tradition (these martyrs of the faith not yet canonized).

Pursuing their mission today, with the same radicalism of option for Christ, they need to be supported, to find a framework for a long-range cultural expression.

The CRS-NDI, in particular, through the Laboratory of Anthropology and Historiography  of the Community Intellectual Sage Daa René Akanzan (LAHSIC), would like to constitute this framework.

The LAHSIC animators have made it their mission to reach these sages in all cultural spaces and to put them in touch with each other.

They provide them with logistical support for:

• the implementation of their own research methodology;

• their formation through prayer and Christ-centered African biblical reading;

• their formation in the Christian reading critical of the elements of the culture collected;

• the implementation of the results of the research at the liturgical, catechetical, health pastoral, educational, theological level, etc. ; these must always be done in the context of the historical subject of inculturation, which is the local Church, with its first pastor.

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