Abstract
Guy Hermet observed that in political systems characterized by an exercise of power and . . . refusal to implement a suffi cient and generalized participation of the citizen in the political system . . . religious organizations are the only ones capable of offering host structures, leadership, and means of expression distinct from those controlled by the power dominating oligarchy.1 This has been the case in sub-Saharan Africa in the last four decades. As governance degener ated to authoritarian rule, churches emerged, in most cases, as the only formidable opposition to the state.2 Therefore, churches became one of the significant factors in the ending of apartheid in South Africa and the demise of other forms of repressive governance in the rest of Africa.
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