Abstract
In my opinion, the subject that has been announced for me to discuss, “The Bible and African Experience” is sufficiently broad to permit of, indeed to require, a division into several subtopics, each one of which merits serious consideration. It could well treat of relationships between the Bible, viewed as a collection of writings that came into existence over a period of some twelve hundred years, and the continent of Africa from the time that the earliest of those writings were produced down to the present moment. For indeed Africa has a place in the biblical writings from the very beginning, however far back in history one may set those beginnings.