Abstract
In the 1970s, feminist biblical scholars began to conduct research on the biblical traditions of
wisdom and the manifestation of female images of God, named Sophialogy. There are different
focus areas within Sophialogy, but the formulation of Wisdom/Sophia goals for liberation and
equality was inter alia the focus area of feminist biblical interpretation. According to this
approach, Jesus as the prophetic messenger of Wisdom/Sophia activates the Sophia tradition
through his works or deeds of compassion for the poor, the outcasts, and all those suffering
from injustice. Women in Africa interpret these deeds as communal ‘wise living’ and the
custodians of justice. This culminates in a motherhood agenda, namely, making peace for life;
ensuring mutual respect, honour and care for life; looking for fairness; reciprocity; wholeness
and inclusiveness. The aim of this paper is to discuss mutual-mothering in the African context
as an ethos for living wisely and justly. Having instincts to care and to protect are not exclusively
female attributes, but include also males.