Book Description

Title:

The Evangelisation of Pagan Africa. A History of Christian Missions to the Pagan Tribes of Central Africa

Author:

Johannes Du Plessis [1868-1935]

Publication Year:

[1938]

Location:

Cape Town & Johannesburg

Publisher:

J.C. Juta & Co. Ltd.

Pages:

408

Subjects:

Christian Mission, Africa, Angola, Benin, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Togo, Uganda

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Contents

• Preface

1. The African Continent
2. The Age of Discovery
3. The Slave Trade
4. Sierra Leone and the Gambia
5. Liberia
6. The Gold and Slave Coasts
7. Nigeria and Calabar
8. The Cameroons and the Gaboon
9. Some West African Missionary Problems
10. The Congo: The Chain of Stations
11. The Congo: Filling up the Gaps
12. Angola
13. Questions and Problems of the Congo-Angolan Field
14. The Pioneering Period in East Africa
15. The Uganda Mission
16. Nyasaland and the East
17. Nyasaland and the West
18. Other East African Missions (Chiefly of the Colonial Era)
19. The Roman Catholic Church in Central Africa
20. The Present Situation and its Demands

• Appendices
1. Chronological Table
2. Some Public Acts and Documents appertaining to Mission; Berlin Act;
   Covenant of the League of Nations;
   Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye
3. Some Approximate Statistics
4. List of Authorities
5. A Selected Bibliography (300 titles, with characterisations)
6. Index of Persons and Subjects
   Index of Places and Tribes
7. Map to Illustrate "Pagan Africa"

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