ABSTRACT
Translation of the BIBLE into African lan guages began around the seventeenth century. Nama ( 1 993: 420) mentions that by 1 658, Ge, an African language spoken by the Ewes (Republic of Benin) , was included in a major document, Doctriana Christiana , a handbook for missionary purposes. However, it was not until the nineteenth century that large-scale translation of the Bible into African languages began in earnest.
