Here is a thoughtful analysis of the spiritual movements currently within Christianity in Africa with some comparisons to simlar historical movements in South America, North America and England.

It is instructive for African Christian students on North American campuses, as it helps give perspective to these religious movements they have and will encounter when they return to their home countries

The article starts off: "Everyone agrees that the great shifts in the social geography of Christianity over the past half century have been the redistribution of demographic weight southward, and the inundation of the Christian south by Pentecostalism and its charismatic penumbra....

"Whereas in 1900, Christians in sub-Saharan Africa were a small minority, they now number about one third of a billion, and the Pentecostal wave that took off in Latin America in the Sixties swept across Africa about a decade later."

To read the complete article on-line see: http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2002/006/3.11.html