ABSTRACT
A bitter pill which the majority of writers on Christianity and missionary activities in Africa should swallow is that they have not been writing African Church History. But this fact is not to be construed as a judgment on their scholarship. With the exception of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church of Egypt both of which, in our opinion, have not received the attention they deserve, scholars have had no African Church as such on which to focus their writings. For, rightly considered, an African Church must necessarily be the product of an organic growth on the African soil, an institution in which Christianity is incarnate within the African milieu. This was how the ‘historic Churches’ introduced into Africa had developed in their metropolitan countries.
