The pastoral challenges of accompanying those in polygamous situations and the wider question of inculturation in the African Church were at the centre of a gathering of theologians representing the six episcopal conferences that make up the Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA): Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST), Lesotho (LCBC), Mozambique (CEM), Namibia (NCBC), South Africa, Botswana, and Eswatini (SACBC), and Zimbabwe (ZCBC).