Abstract
This paper will attempt to give a brief socio-historical analysis of Northeast African Christianity in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Djibouti, and Seychelles. The theoretical orientation is informed by a connectional independency missiological perspective. While the development of Christianity in Africa may seem independent, it is all connected in a fantastic Pan-African web. As stated by Lemin Sanneh, “the African as an agent of religious adaption has played a far more central role than his European missionary counterpart whose role as a historical transmitter has often been exaggerated.” Early Christianity was non-white to a greater extent then most of us dare to admit. This independent Christianity has been expanding rapidly
in Africa, with Africans as the historical transmitters. Many scholars and observers have now admitted that the continent may soon become the world center of Christianity. Our Pan-African challenge is to utilize a new “Hamitic” connectional independency missiological perspective beyond the 21st century.