The motivation of European countries for colonization of Africa was economic reasons. They wanted to get valuable resources for cheaper prices like gold or rubber. In 1880s, European countries started to advance to Africa continent for trading their goods. However, in order to make African understand Western culture colonial government sent missionaries for spreading gospel which is the basic of Western culture. The main business of was education. They built school for Africans and tried to convert African religion to Christianity. Colonial government supported missionaries for their needs. Also, there was little bit racial discrimination beneath Western version of gospel. However, when William Wade Harris started to preach for African in postcolonial era, Christianity was settled down in Africa continent. After that, Africa Initiated Churches founded and they began to spread gospel which did not imply about anti-African message. However, African interpreted bible in their own way. They tried to make bible fit into their culture.

Jacobsen states that African history is full of oppression and suffering (57). Because European colonial government made temporal boundaries without discussion with many of African tribes, there was always conflict. Most of conflicts were about independence of Africa.  The most extreme case of religious conflict occurred in Rwanda, July 4, in 1994. So many Christians were killed by other Christians. The reason was about wrong land distribution by Tusti royal family which was rooted in colonial era. This conflict affected neighborhood countries in Africa. Therefore, the theological concept of Ubuntu came out from public in moral sense. Ubuntu implies “all human beings as dependent on and responsible for one another like, “The God that African Christians know and love is a God who vastly exceeds anything any human being could ever fully comprehend or understand and who loves all of creation equally”(Jacobsen, 72). This shows that African society is based on community and African applied this into Christianity, too.

In terms of growth of Christians, Western Christianity has to learn from Africa. As Jacobsen mentioned, Africans consider Christianity as a community. They are good at taking care of other people as they do for their own family. Also, Africans are passionate for participation in church. They pray together for God’s will and go to the worship meeting once a week with one heart. Most of important point is African Christianity was built on evangelical belief with their own traditional culture. They learned how to adapt Christianity on their own culture. For propagation of gospel, Western Christianity learn how to apply gospel in other region’s culture.