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Article: A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present

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A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. By Elizabeth Isichei. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; Lawrenceville, New Jersey: Africa World Press, Inc. 1995. Pp. c, 420. $19.95 paper.)

There has been a need for a comprehensive introduction to the history of African Christianity ever since that continent emerged from its colonial condition to consist of a body of self-governing political communities. Such a history has now been produced by Prokssoi Isichei in this well-researched volume, which has managed to cover the intended extent of both place and time in a way which is both eminently readable and most convincing.

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