Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217).

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Called to serve in a world coming to an end: Jeremiah 1:1-19 -- Idolatry and the peril of the nation: Jeremiah 2:4-8 -- Agonizing for a blind people: Jeremiah 4:19-22 -- Poverty and knowledge of God: Jeremiah 5:1-6 -- The anatomy of a dysfunctional community: Jeremiah 9:2-9 -- The secret of true greatness and power: Jeremiah 9:23-24 -- The use and abuse of political power: Jeremiah 22:13-19 -- Weak leadership and the dismantling of Judah: Jeremiah 24:4-7 -- Seek the peace of Babylon: constructive presence in exile: Jeremiah 29:4-9 -- New covenant and new community: Jeremiah 31:31-34 -- Bibliography.

"The book of Jeremiah is often presented as one of the most difficult texts in the Bible, yet it is also a text that speaks with immediacy and power to some of the greatest challenges facing our world today. In Reading Jeremiah in Africa, Dr. Bungishabaku Katho offers a study that is both accessible and deeply relevant to the particularities of an African context. In a series of ten selected passages, Dr. Katho demonstrates the many parallels between Jeremiah's Judah and a continent that continues to experience the complex and devastating realities of poverty, injustice, and war. Katho reminds us, however, that Jeremiah is also an exercise in imagination. It is a book of hope, and Katho, like Jeremiah, dares to dream past the present and into a future where God is known and humans flourish"--page 4 of cover.

Dr. Katho offers a study that is both accessible and deeply relevant to the particularities of an African context. In a series of ten selected passages, Dr. Katho demonstrates the many parallels between Jeremiah's Judah and a continent that continues to experience the complex and devastating realities of poverty, injustice, and war.