The history of superstition in Africa as a whole

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• The culture history in general of Africa as a whole

Recent histories of Christianity in Africa

Thomas Speer's contribution to a discussion on the H-Africa list, 11 January 1996. Context is a review of Elizabeth Isichei's History of Christianity in Africa. Comment on several recent books in English.

Cults: Why East Africa?

By David Bamford, BBC News, Monday 20 March 2000. The social conditions contributing to the world-wide growth of apocalyptic and suicide cults. Example in East Africa. [social trauma here attributed to local politics rather than to globalization]

African Belief System Reveals Special Links With Land

By Osman Njuguna, African Church Information Service (Nairobi), 14 August 2000. Book review. In Person, Divinity and Nature: A modern view of the Person and the Cosmos in African Thought, Dr Chukwunyere Kamalu addresses the concept of African philosophy and the world-view that goes with it.

How the Old African Religions Were Structured

By Vincent Okungu, African Church Information Service (Nairobi), 11 December 2000. The diversity of cultures in Africa was matched by more or less a corresponding number of religious faiths. But these religions varied in structure and were uniquely appealing to the individual communities. They were not recognised and appreciated for what they were by early visitors to the continent.

Review of John S. Mbiti, Introduction to African religion

By Michael McKenny, 12–20 August 2002. This is a high school text book, and, as such, a very good basic introduction to the topic of traditional African religion.