To soundtrack of xylophones and drums, Africans debate limits of inculturationAs some traditional communities in Africa are lodging complaints against Christian missionaries of desecration and destruction of their cultures, Catholic leaders find themselves struggling to balance accommodation of local customs and practices against protecting the integrity of the faith.One front in the mounting tension is Cameroon, where traditional communities have petitioned the Vatican against what they allege is cultural insensitivity and abuses by the Church.On July 19, the Wimbum people of Cameroon’s North West region petitioned the Dicastery for the Defense of the Faith, complaining that the Catholic Church, in...