Africa Long Ago

land of variety

• rain forests
• deserts
• waterfalls
• diamond mines, and more!
• Mt. Kilimanjaro (highest peak)

Africa:
The 2nd largest continent

Madagascar:
the world's 4th largest island

Land of mystery

• Europeans knew little about early Africa
• Was called the Dark Continent
• English & Scottish Missionaries began exploring the continent
• Stories made more people want to explore and trade there

Ham's sons, Mizraim, Phut, & Cush

Land of Phut

• Now known as Sahara Desert
• Used to be green and fertile
• People were artists and made crafts
• Land dried up (false pagan religion)
• Middle Eastern warriors also invaded

Land of Cush

• greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior
• located along the Nile River, south of Egypt (Sudan)
• traded with Egypt and Middle East
• had gold, ivory, precious stones, works of art
• Cush overcame Egypt at one time                        

Famous Cushite

• Also called Ethiopians
• Ethiopian eunuch (first recorded African Christian)
• Led to Christ by Philip in Acts 8
• took the gospel back to Africa and founded a church 

Saba (Sheba)

Kingdom of Aksum

Queen of sheeba

aEDESIUS & fRUMENTIUS

kING lALIBELA

Center of Christianity

Athanasius the Great

Muslim Control

• During Middle Ages, Arab Muslims conquered Christians in Northern Africa
• Christians moved to Europe
• by A.D. 700, northern Africa was almost completely occupied by Muslims

Trading in Africa

• Cities on East coast of Africa sailed on ships to Arabia, India, China, and Thailand to trade smelted iron, ivory, and gold
• They returned to Africa with silk, porcelain, and precious jewels

Ghana Empire

• One of the greatest trading areas from A.D. 300-1200
• Ruled by black Africans
• Arabs brought salt, copper, dried fruits to trade for gold, ivory, and slaves

Mali Empire

• Arose after Ghana's fall
• Known for its great wealth in gold
• Also known for its famous center of learning, the city of Timbuktu

Southern Kingdoms

• Kingdom of the Kongo, Zulu Empire, and Great Zimbabwe were huge kingdoms which arose in the south during Middle Ages
• For over 1,000 years there was almost no gospel witness in these areas
• Idol worship, witchcraft, and difficult geographical barriers kept people from developing a high civilization

Early Achievements

• Early Africans were skilled metal workers
• Invented smelting furnace and a process for making cast iron
• Known as the "home of animal tales"
• Aesop, a Greek slave who wrote the famous fables, is believed by many to have come from Ethiopia

White Man's Grave

• During the 1800s, European explorers were led by skillful African trailblazers through the interior of the continent
• Intense heat, dense vegetation, malaria, yellow fever, and sleeping sickness took their toll on African explorers and missionaries
• Africa became known as White Man's Grave

Slave Trade Dangers

• Africans raided other tribes and carried away people to sell to Arab and Portuguese traders
• Were packed on ships and resold as slaves to people in Asia and new world
• Many Africans owned slaves themselves
• Were extremely cruel
• White men were always suspected of being slavers
• This made life difficult for European explorers and missionarie

James Bruce

Mungo Park

Robert Moffat

• Scottish Pioneer Missionary
• Lived and worked in Kuruman with his wife, Mary
• Revival broke out after 12 years of labor; many were saved
• Moffat put the language of the Africans in written form and translated the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress
• Soon, Africans were able to read and teach others about Christ

Kalahari Desert

David Livingstone

Victoria Falls

• David Livingstone--1st European to see the falls
• Named after Queen Victoria
• Water falls 360 ft. into the Zambezi River; makes thunderous noise; mist rises 3,000 ft. into the air
• Africans call it the smoke that thunders

Henry Stanley

Congo River

• World's 2nd largest river in the volume of water it carries
• Henry Stanley is most remembered for his trip through the jungles on this river
• Stanley also witnessed to the king of the Baganda tribe in Uganda

Legacy of Dr. Livingstone

• Shared the gospel with Africans
• Taught them new ways of growing crops and building homes
• Introduced commerce into Africa to destroy the slave trade
• Had his arm chewed by a lion
• After living in Africa for 30 years, he died while kneeling beside his bed in prayer
• Africans buried his heart in the jungle and sent his body to London

Missionary Contributions

• Stood up for Africans when others tried to take advantage of them
• Translated the Bible into almost 600 of Africa's nearly 2,000 languages
• Started almost all of Africa's schools, hospitals, medical clinics
• Helped them learn new ways of farming, building, and preventing disease
• Led many to Christ and taught them the Christian way of life
• Trained African Christians to take part in these ministries

Lott Carey

• Freed slave from Virginia who work with his friend Colin Teague to establish many Baptist churches throughout northwestern Africa
• Became the governor of Liberia, Africa's first black republic

Samuel Crowther

• Was captured by the Portuguese and put on a slave ship in 1821
• British warships rescued him and he grew up in Freetown and went to a Christian school
• After furthering his education in England, he returned to Africa and became the 1st black bishop the Church of England had ever had

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