The late Byzantine era in Africa

“Africa is one of the most neglected subjects in modern scholarship on late antiquity and early Byzantium. Neither exactly Byzantine nor exactly western.” ¹ This observation by Averil Cameron, the highly esteemed historian of Byzantine history, points both to the gap remaining in our understanding of African history from this era and to the need to study Africa as a unique context. Furthermore, this portion of African Christianity’s history needs to be resituated within the story of African Christianity in general since the main subjects understood themselves as belonging to the African tradition that had come before them.