African Women Christians

Narratives around the contributions made by women in the proliferation of Christianity in Africa have supplanted the roles played by women, perhaps for familiar reasons. The widespread religion would have been practically impossible without the active contributions of the women who took it upon themselves to spread it across various African groups and ultimately retained it in their homes, where they were the primary agents of socialization. This oversight has, therefore, necessitated the examination of the significance of women in the retention of Christianity religion in Africa. To integrate African women into the fold, women missionaries were needed, and for a European culture that disallowed active participation of women in their region, European women missionaries made themselves available in the ecumenical business in Africa, and they met a group of women who banked on their cultural flexibility to participate in the engagement actively and productively. This work, therefore, provides the conditions, circumstances, and realities surrounding the promotion of Christianity in Africa by these women (European women missionaries and their African women counterparts). Colonialism affected the spread, but they nonetheless offered ineluctable contributions that entirely changed the outlook of religion in the continent. This work concludes by highlighting the various dimensions of experiences of the people and how they weathered the storm to remain dominant and participatory in the course of its spread in the African continent.