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Coronavirus is the latest pandemic that is challenging all spheres of the human economy globally. The popular "lockdown" which is a means used to ameliorate the devastating effect of this pandemic, was adopted by all the countries of the world mainly to soothe human health condition while other sectors of the global economy were also punctured. The long-term preparation towards the year 2020 for "Vision 2020" otherwise, “sustainable development” was horrifically traumatized. Moreover, African religious culture expressed as God's sovereignty and communalism suffers a great deal. This work seeks to investigate the effect of coronavirus pandemic on African religiosity. The paper adopts the historical/ descriptive method. It attempts to trace the present pandemic with previous ones as well as articulating the strength of African religiosity in the face of any pandemic situation. The finding shows that the sense of communalism has since been hijacked in recent times when political leaders think selfishly only of themselves at the detriments of the community's common members. The work concludes that the global pandemic has not only been a misfortune but also a blessing, God's sovereign over the universe may allow the pandemic, so that as the whole world is coerced into quarantine or lockdown, the earth may have a natural management and rejuvenation.

Culture and religion are two important parts of human life that are highly emotional. People do everything to protect, defend, and keep their cultural and religious heritage no matter how primitive others may think it is. Failure to recognize the religious and cultural worldview of a people in the evangelization of such society often leads to a conflict of allegiance. This study is a critical appraisal of the Scottish missionary activities among the Efik people of Old Calabar, Nigeria. The effect of neglecting these cultural elements that would have acted as a bridge to the full acceptance of Christianity among the people was neglected. This rigid attitude was challenged by the emergence of some Independent African Churches that came as a substitute for the mission churches. The need for a new perspective on the interaction of culture and religion is therefore required if the world is to survive the current global religious conflicts.