African Christianity
Elizabeth Isichei, “A History of Christianity in Africa: From antiquity to the present”
Africa is a vast continent, broad in space, deep in time. In one book, Elizabeth Isichei, professor of religious studies at Otago University, surveys every aspect of the history of Christianity in Africa, from Roman North Africa to the Deeper Life Ministry in post-independence Nigeria. This survey seems so comprehensive that there can scarcely be a single inch of the continent or tribal peoples left out.
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