Tongues of fireTHE thatched roof of the picturesque Dutch Reformed church in Franschhoek, South Africa, where we have been staying, was sprinkle-hosed the other Sunday. At the Congregational church, we used a hymn book, Sing Hosanna, published in 1975 as an ecumenical bilingual book. AdvertisementOne of the brighter legacies of the fleeing Huguenots’ arrival in South Africa in the 17th century — apart from viniculture — was religious freedom. If the fifty-fifty balance of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria descends into religious conflict, how — as part of a pan-African response — should South Africa intervene, as Nigeria once held South Africa to account over apartheid? Sarah Sands is a journalist and author.