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Resources for the study of Christianity in Africa are now very plentiful. The following are good places to start.
Adamo, David Tuesday. Africa and Africans in the Old Testament (San Francisco, London, Bethesda: Christian Universities Press, 1998).
Baur, John. 2000 Years of Christianity in Africa: An African History 62-1992 (Nairobi: Paulines, 1994).
Bediako, Kwame. Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of a Non-Western Religion (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1995).
Bilinda, Lesley. The Colour of Darkness: A personal story of tragedy and hope in Rwanda (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996).
Dickson, Kwasi. Theology in Africa (London: DLT, 1984).
Eboussi Boulaga, F. Christianity without Fetishes: An African critique and recapture of Christianity Translated from the French by Robert R. Barr (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1981).
Éla, Jean-Marc. My Faith as an African (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1988).
Groves, C.P. The Planting of Christianity in Africa. 4 vols. (London: Lutterworth, 1948-58).
Hastings, Adrian.The Church in Africa 1450-1950 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994).
Isichei, Elizabeth. A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995)
Karanja, John. Founding an African Faith: Kikuyu Anglican Christianity 1900-1945 (Nairobi: Uzima, 1999).
Mbiti, John S. African Religions and Philosophy (Nairobi: Heinemann, 1969).
Idem. Bible and Theology in African Christianity (Nairobi: Oxford, 1986).
McCullum, Hugh. The Angels Have Left us: The Rwanda Tragedy and the Churches (Geneva: WCC, 1995 [?]).
Mugambi, Jesse & Laurenti Magesa, eds. The Church in African Christianity: Innovative Essays in Ecclesiology (Nairobi: Initiatives, 1990).
Nthamburi, Zablon. From Mission to Church: A Handbook of Christianity in East Africa (Nairobi: Uzima, 1991).
Parratt, John, ed. The Practice of Presence: Shorter Writings of Harry Sawyerr (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994).
Idem. Reinventing Christianity: African Theology Today (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995).
Provincial Unit of Research Church of the Province of Kenya. Rabai to Mumias: a short history of the Church of the Province of Kenya 1844-1994 (Nairobi: Uzima, 1994).
Schaff, Ype. On Their Way rejoicing: the history and role of the Bible in Africa (Carlisle,UK: Paternoster, 1994).
Shaw, Mark. The Kingdom of God in Africa: A Short History of African Christianity (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996).
Snowden, Frank. Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1970).
Walls, Andrew F. The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996).
Andrew C. Wheeler & William B. Anderson, eds. Faith in the Sudan series. (Nairobi: Paulines).
No.1: A. Wheeler. Land of Promise: Church Growth in a Sudan at War (1997).
No.2: S. Brown, ed. Seeking an Open Society: Inter-faith Relations and Dialogue in Sudan Today (1997).
No.3: Janet Perrson. In Our Own Languages: The Story of Bible Translation in Sudan (1997).
No.4: G. Barsella & Miguel A. Ayuso Guixot. Struggling to be Heard: The Christian Voice in Independent Sudan 1956-1996 (1998).
No. 5: F. Pierli, M.T. Ratti & A. Wheeler, eds. Gateway to the Heart of Africa: Missionary Pioneers in Sudan (1998).