“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
Jomo Kenyatta
“anyone who wishes to undertake serious study of Christianity these days needs to know something about Africa.” Andrew Walls
“Black Africa today is totally inconceivable apart from the presence of Christianity.” Adrian Hastings
“The growth of Black spirituality has powerful implications for the wider picture of world Christianity in the new century. Not only will Africa itself be the religion’s spiritual centre within a few decades, but hundreds of millions of other Christians will belong to the wider African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, and on the soil of Europe itself.” Philip Jenkins
“Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world. Just as in past times Egypt proved a stronghold of Christianity after Jerusalem fell, and just as the noblest and greatest of the Fathers of the Christian Church came out of Egypt, so it may be, when the civilised nations, in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual perceptions darkened and their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agony of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith, for the promise of that land is that she shall stretch forth her hands unto God.” Edward Blyden
