Colby Kumwenda
Colby Kumwenda originates from Malawi in Afric and completed a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) at Justo Mwale Theological College in Lusaka-Zambia from 2003 to 2006. He had served in the church from 2006 to 2011. Later on he joined University of Livingstonia in 2011 as an associate lecturer. In 2013, he won a scholarship (Lindsay Memorial) to do MSc/MTh in Theology and Public Life majoring in World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He returned to Malawi in 2014 and rejoined University as a lecturer and a researcher. In 2016, he won a scholarship to study PhD at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, on World Christianity and Intercultural/Mission Studies. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer and a Coordinator in Postgraduate programmes of the University of Livingstonia . His research interests are New Religious Movements, Gender and Migration/Diaspora Studies, Ecotheology, Ecofeminism. He is a visiting scholar at Presbyterian Seminary in Koumba, Cameroon.
Recent publications:
Kumwenda, C. N. H. (2024). CCAP music. In J. Ross & M. Chilongozi (Eds.), The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian 1924–2024 (pp. 337–354). Mzuzu/Geneva/Wellington.
Kumwenda, C. N. H. (2024). “I declare and decree!” Rhetoric of power and authority in the spoken word. In J. Njoroge (Ed.), Addressing contextual misleading theologies on power and authority in African churches (pp. 43–57). Nairobi: AACC-CETA Publications.
Kumwenda, C. N. H. (2023). The rhetoric of the false healing claims: A study of selected emerging trends in Malawi. In J. Njoroge (Ed.), Addressing contextual misleading theologies of health and healing in Africa (pp. 225–242). Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications.
Kumwenda, C. N. H. (2019). Collaborative research methodologies: A quest for better engagement and results oriented findings within the institutions of higher learning. https://www.philpapers.org/rec/KUMCRM
Kumwenda, C. N. H. (2018). Ignoring the North: Redressing a serious flaw in liberation theology from the Malawian context. Studies in World Christianity, 24(2), 134–148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0966735018794486