Each student who enters College must fulfill a Core requirement of courses before he or she graduates. One of these Core requirements is a course in Cultural Diversity. Because I am a baptized Catholic and have been studying the history, foundation, and teachings of my faith since the age of six, I figured that Christianity in Africa would be an easy way to attain a good grade while fulfilling this requirement at the same time. …
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…itself, I said to myself, "That can not be." I figured it would have taken at least a thousand years before Christianity could reach the continent of Africa. Similarly, because Jesus was born in a country that was part of the Roman Empire, I always considered him European with little access to Africa. This belief led me to imagine that Christianity did not make its presence known in Africa until the Europeans began forming colonies.