Abstract:
Before the dawn of democracy in South Africa, in the methodological debates that were
associated with who the interlocutor of Black Theology of liberation was, there was a
tacit understanding that not everyone who is black is necessarily an interlocutor of Black
Theology of liberation. The changes arising from globalisation which coincided with the
demise of apartheid seem to have diffused the clarity of interlocution in the Black
Theology of liberation school as it was sought before. Another problem is that post 1994
more emphasis has been rather on the notion of prophetic theology whose relationship
with the liberation paradigm is becoming equally unclear. This article will trace the
debate on the interlocution and highlights the differences between prophetic theology and
Black Theology of liberation in order to assert the interlocution of Black Theology of
liberation with the voiceless in the 21st century.
