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ABSTRACT

Global Christianity (the Christian church) since the twentieth century is coloured with some African cultural practices which have changed certain aspects of religious and cultural values of Christianity and the Engenni culture in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. There are concerns of cultural alienation in Engenni, as was the case in Kenya (Bair 2013). The paper examines aspects of global Christianity and the Engenni culture that are affected and how they affect the development of Engenni in the 21st century. Adopting the historical and phenomenological methods of investigation, the paper observed that the Value Added Theory of Smelser (1963) logically explains the dynamics of the discourse on “Cultural Colouration of Global Christianity to the development of Engenni in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria”; and represents it in a Venn Diagram showing inculturation. Development studies recognise the diffusion of African culture in Global Christianity and the reverse order. This interplay opens up a broad spectrum study of academic scholarship by investigating the elements of culture in global Christianity and its effect with particular reference to Engenni as an ethnic nationality. The diffusion of culture and global Christianity in the development matrix of Engenni is expressed in gains, losses and a change mantra in the development landscape of Engenni. The paper recommends that the Engenni culture and Global Christianity should respect their identities and promote their core values to the advantage of the corporate development of human society.