Table of Contents

Part I. The First Fourteen Hundred Years: 1. The beginnings; Part II. The Middle Ages, 1415–1787: 2. Maritime connections; Part III. The Nineteenth Century, 1787–1919: 3. Overview; 4. North and North-Eastern Africa; 5. Western Africa; 6. West-Central Africa; 7. Southern Africa; 8. South-Central Africa and the Indian Ocean; 9. East Africa; 10. East-Central Africa; Part IV. The Colonial Experience, 1920–1959: 11. Continental panorama; 12. Local perspectives; 13. North and North-Eastern Africa; 14. Western Africa; 15. Central Africa; 16. Southern Africa; 17. East Africa; 18. Ecumenical perspectives; Epilogue.

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Reviews

' … this book is full of riches, of delightful vignettes, and it is wholly ecumenical. It will long remain a work of reference for anyone interested in the history of African Christianity.' The Tablet

'… if you want to know how the Churches and Zambian nationalism are related, who the early African Christian leaders in Malawi were, who was Prophet Harris and exactly where and when did he work and how these and other African Christian leaders related to the ongoing history of their territory, then this is your book … this is an important work and ought to be in every library where ecclesiastical history and African history are taught.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

'There can be no doubt that this is a landmark book which cannot be praised enough … here we have an extraordinary contribution to African church history … I hope it will be used also by those whose history is told on these pages.' Missionalia

' … an important reference work.' Ian Fairweather, University of Manchester

'… the most authoritative reference work now available on the history of the Christian church in Africa.' African Studies Review