ABSTRACT
THE CHANGING SITUATION in Subsaharan Africa, particularly the drive toward self-determination, caused the missions to accept the principle of devolution of church control into African hands.' The same process, but not as a conscious movement, had marked the spread of Islam. Though the organization of worship and the locus of religious sanction were different, African con-
verts increasingly became "contact agents," as Trimingham calls them, with "Negroes spreading Negro Islam."
