Exploits 2005-2006: Missions and Missionaries in
AFRICA
Cameroon:
* The Bramlett family
Kenya:
* Bishop Andrew and Margaret Kimaro		 Kenya:
* The Kingsbury family
Africa's total population is about 761 million (1998 estimate). Culturally, Africans are perhaps the most diverse of any continent's inhabitants, with more than 3000 ethnic groups and more than 1000 languages.

Ethnicities often cross national boundaries, and African national identity is not as strong as racial ties or local kin-group affiliations. One has to remember that white colonialists from Europe decided upon the borders between the countries without taking ethnicity into consideration. Borderlines were sometimes just drawn by looking at a map and connecting two points or by using rivers as borders. Obviously, people of the same ethnical group lived on both sides of these lines. Many of today's problems among countries in Africa relate directly to this poor judgment of early authorities. Black Africans make up the majority of the population, but there are also large populations of Arabs, Asians, Europeans, and Berbers.

In an article titled, "Continent Records Highest Growth In Christianity", Osman Njuguna states, "With an annual increase of 3.5 percent, representing an estimated 6 million "new" Christians, Africa is … registering one of the fastest Christian growth rates in the world."

Elizabeth Isichei, professor of religious studies at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, in her book, History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present says, "The expansion of Christianity in twentieth-century Africa has been so dramatic that it has been called ‘the fourth great age of Christian expansion.’ There were 10 million African Christians in 1900, 143 million in 1970, and there will be 393 million in the year 2000, which will mean that 1 in 5 of all Christians will be an African."