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This 16 page paper considers the way in which the Christian missions have taken place in Africa and assesses the approaches and how they have impacted in the emergence of modern Christianity. Specific attention is paid to The Gambia and Sierra Leone. The bibliography cites 20 sources.
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of studying the past as a key to understanding the present. This is true for any subject, but when looking at the way in which Christianity has emerged and evolved
it is particularly true, with the history serving not only as a background, but as the foundation of the current structure, perceptions and practices. Max Warren; CMS General Secretary has
stated "only a right attitude to the past provides me with any possibility whatever of a right attitude to the future...not that we treat the past as sacred...but our judgments
will be passed with due humility for we will remember that we are ourselves in history and that God is at work today. I believe that history matters tremendously and
that we must take the past as seriously" (Ward and Stanley, 2000: 41). It is by looking at the past that the current patterns may be considered in a meaningful
context, and when looking at the historical record of Christian missions to areas such as Africa the links of past and present can be appreciated. Christianity in Africa is
often associated with the missionary movements seen in the Nineteen and twenty centuries, but as Jenkins (2002) notes, it was in the Middle East and North Africa that religion
has its foundations, it was only in the fifteenth century that the centre of Christendom shifted to Europe, and later incorporated the United States in the beginning of the twenty
century as empire builders emerged in a range of denominational formats (Jenkins, 2002). There is a general perception of the missionary movement being linked to the empire building and
the spread of western values as settlers and merchants spread into the lesser developed areas, especially in Africa. The Gikuyu people had a phrase "there is no difference between missionary
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