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Harvey Kuyani

Malawian missiologist and theologian; Director of Acts 11 Project and African Christianity Programme Lead at Church Mission Society (CMS) in Oxford; author of "Decolonizing Mission"

Jul 13, 2026

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To explore this more, I talked with a transplant to the UK from Africa, a missiologist, theologian and professor, Dr. Harvey Kwiyani.
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Yeah, my name is Harvey Kwiyani and I come from Malawi.
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I'm currently located in Liverpool in England and I've been home here for the past eight years.
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I moved to Liverpool eight years ago.
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I was teaching at a university in the area.
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But I have been involved in mission in the West for the past 25 years.
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The word mission, the way we use it today, in the sense of sending people to go and evangelize the rest of the world, has its history in the formation of the Jesuits, the Roman Catholic missionary movement, the Jesuits.

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so that we don't go out and become the very thing I think the church is supposed to be fighting against.

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