Africanising Christian Imagery in Southern African Missions.

To read the proces of the Africanising of Christian imagery as the 'natural' come of involving African artists in the production of religious art is to ignore the compounded relationships between European missionaries and African transmutes Such an approach does not take into account mission agendas in establishing Christianity in Africa, nor African agency in co-opting Christian themes for of recent origin purposes. To negotiate a path from one side this complex terrain, I have chosen to focus chiefly upon woodcarving developed in the earlier twentieth hundred in southern Africa, in the Transvaal, Natal and Rhodesia, today the Northern Province, KwaZulu-Natal and Zimbabwe, although