Africa is a continent beset by a myriad of challenges, catastrophes, poverty scourges, diseases and death. Benezet Bujo Succinctly describes the situation as the mass poverty of Africa.  Anup Shah in his article conflicts in Africa is categorical about the stark reality of tragedy and absurdities in Africa that is both natural and manmade and the apathy that goes with it, “despite decades of conflict, death and tragedy, coverage of issues in Africa has been ignored, oversimplified or excessively focused on limited aspects.”    The status quo has persistent unrelentlessly despite various interventions cultural, social, philosophical and theological. This sense of pessimism, impotency and utter despair is the backdrop for the quest of a new theological formulation of African reconstruction theology. The reconstruction theology according to its brainchild Prof Jesse Mugambi is “a reconstruction paradigm.”   This is a complete paradigm shift that was precipitated by certain salient factors. First it is historical in the sense that reconstruction theology is inextricably intertwined with the end of cold war and the vanquishing of Apartheid and colonialism and the anticipation of a great era. This phraseology was coined by Prof Mugambi during the General committee of All African Conference of Churches (AACC) on 30th March 1990. Mugambi categorically stated that:  “Reconstruction is the new priority for African nations in the 1990’s. The churches and their theologians need to respond to these new priorities in relevant fashion, to facilitate this process of reconstruction. Secondly, the sheer frustration that was evident in Africa of the intractable African problems and the desire for a more a pragmatic theology that will seek solutions rather that continual vicious circle of blame game. Thirdly, there was the overarching need of integrating other social sciences into theology to give it the gumption and expertise to solve contemporary social and economic problems in Africa.