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Telesia Kathini Musili is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Her research interests revolve around the intersection of Religion, Gender, Indigenous epistemologies and Social Ethics. Rosalind Hinton is an oral historian, independent scholar, educator, and activist. She is a cultural editor of the journal Cross Currents. She is a co-founder and participant in the Wikipedia User: Group Women in Religion dedicated to writing cis and transgender women and women of color in religion onto Wikipedia. She is co-chair of the Women’s Caucus Biographies Panel for the American Academy of Religion.

• About the contributorsAcknowledgementsPreface1 Introduction: Resilient Wisdom: Nurturing Living TheologiesTelesia K. Musili2 Revisiting Afua Kuma's Christology in Light of World Christianity: Theological Imagination and Embodied SpiritualityRuth Amwe3 Alphama Kinyua: A Journey of Faith, Culture and LiberationJackline Makena Mutuma4 Brigalia Bam: Decolonising Women’s Leadership Roles in South AfricaLinda Naicker5 Hannah Wangechi Kinoti - Weaving a Life-Affirming Theology from Lived ExperienceEdith Kayeli Chamwama6 Dorcas O. Akintúndé: Gender and African Biblical Hermeneutics Itohan M. Idumwonyi7 Hazel Ong’ayo Ayanga: Empowering Africa’s Silenced African WomenCarolyne Chepng’eno8 Comfort Max-Wirth: Pentecostal-Charismatic Decolonising through Truth-Telling in Ghana, West AfricaDeborah Fulthorp9 Martha Mwale: The Bold, Undaunted, and Dynamic First Female Parish Minister of Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), Synod of Livingstonia, MalawiJoyce Mlenga10 Asenath Bole Odaga: ‘Get Up and Start Writing’Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi11 Eunice Kamaara: The intersection of Health and Religion Edith Kayeli Chamwama