Introduction
Biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial theory
Bible and colonial identities: colonial constructions, representations and marginality
Location of culture in the colonial hermeneutics: ambivalence, mimicry, and hybridity
Bible translation and the discourse of colonalism: the Gĩkũyũ Bible
The role of common sense hermeneutics: the translated texts and the types of reading
Resistance as a discursive practice
The discourse of resistance and the "hidden transcript": the revival option
Towards an ordinary African readers' hermeneutics
General conclusion.