Migration and African diaspora mission and the changing Christian landscape of the West

Abstract

This Essay reflects on the significance of African and African-led Pentecostal/charismatic churches in the modem West. The basic thesis is that through the establishment of African churches (that is churches made of Africans) and by African Christians forming churches in Europe ( that is churches formed by Africans but that have a predominantly white or mixed race membership), a case has been made for the reference to Christianity as a non-Western religion with Africa as one of its major hubs. Kwame Bediako argued that Christianity has now become a non-Western religion with its centers of dominance in Africa, Asia and Latin America (Bediako 1995).