Youth faith formation usually takes the form of a narrow privatized or spiritualized perspective. Since young people are a critical demographic in the Global South, and Africa more specifically, their faith formation must shape them to engage public life so as to enhance human flourishing. While much of the literature on youth and theology is Western in orientation, this book makes use of scholarly sources in African and Global Christianity so as to shape youth work in the Global South. It shows that young people can help guide the African church to fulfill both the Great Commission and the Great Commandment and so achieve its spiritual and prophetic mandate. It engages with youth culture, emerging non-religious identities, digital church or ecclesiology, ecotheology and climate change, and economic justice.

Kevin Muriithi Ndereba (PhD, University of South Africa) is a lecturer and Head of Department, Practical Theology at St. Paul's University, Kenya, and Research Fellow in the Department of Practical Theology and Missiology at Stellenbosch University. He is the editor of Apologetics in Africa: An Introduction and serves on the executive board of the International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry. He is also a Minister in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa.