1 African Exploration and Human Understanding 2 Dr Heinrich Barth as a Diplomatist and Philanthropist 3 Traditional Rulers and Missionaries in Pre-Colonial West Africa 4 The Coming of Western Education to Africa 5 A Visionary of the African Church: M?j?la Agbebi (1860–1917) 6 James Johnson: Pioneer Educationist in West Africa 7 James Africanus Beale Horton, 1835–83: Prophet of Modernization in West Africa 8 Edward Wilmot Blyden, 1832–1912: The Myth and the Man 9 An African Church: A Legitimate Branch of the Church Universal 10 Writing African Church History 11 Mission in the Context of Religions and Secularization: An African Viewpoint 12 African Studies and Nation-Building
E. A. Ayandele Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor, University of Calabar.