Church, State must work to end fundamentalism

When Johannes Rebmann and fellow missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf left Germany for Africa 150 years ago, they said it was because the continent was not yet "infected" by a wave of rationalism that had engulfed Europe.

Here, in a continent where the reliance on reason as a source of knowledge or justification hadn’t taken root, superstition and nonsense could be replaced by Christianity untainted by Western secular ideas.