Abstract

While it is true that the problem of secularism is linked to European culture and remains correlated with its Judeo-Christian roots, in Africa in general and in the D.R. Congo in particular, secularism remains an imported concept, directly linked to the process of independence and consecutive to the process of globalization. Like many African secularisms, faced with the challenge of appropriating an idea from abroad in a believing Africa, the Congolese secular trajectory, a little over sixty years old, has its own dynamics and contours that can be traced between three moments of its expression. The aim of this analysis is not to formulate a value judgement, but rather to examine the multiple facets of secularism from a diachronic and synchronic perspective