The Inter-Franciscan Course for Missionaries in Africa (IMCA 2025) was officially inaugurated on June 16, 2025, at the Shrine of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs, in the Munyonyo suburb of Kampala, Uganda. The course will run until August 9, 2025. A total of nineteen friars are involved in the course: fifteen participants, three leaders and one coordinator. The friars come from all three branches of the Franciscan First Order: the Friars Minor, the Friars Minor Conventual and the Friars Minor Capuchin.
Seven Conventual Franciscan friars are taking part in the course. They come from Zambia, Ghana, Malawi and Kenya. One of the course leaders is Friar Nathan Mumbi KAKUBO, OFM Conv., who already participated three years ago and is now a missionary in Malawi.
Various topics are being addressed during the course: general aspects of the African continent, the history of evangelization in Africa, the foundations of missiology, mission and finances, inculturation, the presence of Mary in Africa, mission in general, dialogue and reconciliation, and the challenges of the modern areopagus [public arena]. The course topics have been developed by friars from different obediences of the Franciscan First Order.
The participating friars have expressed their hope to receive a visit from the Ministers General and their Assistants General. The Conventual Franciscan Minister General, Friar Carlos TROVARELLI, together with his newly elected Assistant General for the African Federation of Conventual Franciscans (AFCOF), Friar Blasio Ooko OLENGE, have already confirmed they will be present at the conclusion of the course.
Friar Nathan Mumbi KAKUBO
Friar Dariusz MAZUREK
