The Church as an Agent of Reconciliation in the Thought of Desmond Tutu

Abstract

"South Africa was both the first and last bastion of extended European colonial rule in Sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the extensive and prolonged interaction between the black and white races, who were distinguished by divergent philosophies of life, friction developed between these two major ethnic blocs, as well as the other peoples that came to labor for the whites or have arisen as a result of miscegenation between the blacks and the whites. Archbishop Desmond Tutu holds that racial tension is neither good for South Africa nor even Christian, and insists that it should be eliminated, giving way to reconciliation"