Christian Africa

Catalog description

Offers evidence of another story of Christianity in Africa that predates slavery and colonialism. Christianity has very deep roots in Africa, however the global narrative of the faith is tied to European history and thought. Among the most popular ideas about Christianity in Africa is that it came into the continent with the expansion of slavery and colonialism. This is not true. It will cover an analysis of familiar Biblical stories, Beta Israel (original Ethiopian Jewish populations), African philosophers and Bishops of the early Catholic church, Black Mary and Jesus statues in Europe, Walatta Petros who supported Ethiopian Christianity while she refused Italian Christianity and colonialism, and race and the disappearance of African influences in the early narrative of Christianity.