ABSTRACT
This anecdote has been and is told regularly in African contexts. African land and the Bible are integrally related in Africa, with the contours of their relationship following a similar pattern. The details are different from context to context, and so the anecdote is always accompanied by local commentary. This essay is a form of commentary on this anecdote, with the commentary coming from the various forms of South African Black Theology that have emerged in the period from the 1970s to the present.
