How Christianity Came to West Africa
The first Europeans arrived on the coast of W. Africa at the end of the 15th cent., but for the most part, they were involved in the slave trade rather than in evangelization. In the 19th cent. there was sustained missionary activity by Churches of every denomination. Anglicans, Methodists, and Baptists were active in Sierra Leone and, with Presbyterians, in Nigeria, while Methodists…