DescriptionThe Catholic Church in the tropical Africa represent the only comprehensive work on this period of African Church history. The author has critically examined a wide variety of foreign language publication and archives, and here present a synthesis of history largely unfamiliar to readers of English. It is a must for any student of African history or of Religious studies.The cover drawing is after an original Bronze statue “the messenger from Idah” in the British Museum and another in the Museum of Benin city
