The significance of Bernard Lonergan's work on bias for the
ethnic and religious conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa  Cyril
Orji, Marquette University   Africa has often been perceived as
a confluence of tension and conflict and the recent upheavals in
Sub-Saharan Africa have done little to help this perception. The
rising wave of ethnic and religious violence continues to drain
the continent of its material and human resources, leading to
what Bernard Lonergan describes as a state of "cumulative
decline." Muslim-Christian relations in some African countries
are currently at their lowest ebb. The world still remembers the
Hutu-Tutsi conflict that led to savage massacres in Rwanda and
the warlord politics of Somalia of the 1990s. Followers of the
three main religions in Africa: African Traditional Religion
(ATR), Islam and Christianity, are perceived to be at odds with
one another and sometimes take extreme measures in their quest
to seek relevance and assert themselves as a dominant religious
force. The official