The quest goes on and also the task to translate the gospel into the African context faithfully. Here a posting from ENInews about efforts in this matter:

Theologian sees links between Christianity and African traditional religion Nairobi, Kenya (ENInews)–When a missionary asked Africans in Zanzibar to tell him something about their God, they simply said, “God thunders!” The cleric had travelled across the seas in the 19th century to tell “the heathens without religion” or “people with a primitive religion” about God. The missionaries succeeded in spreading Christianity in Africa at a time when tribal religions were ignored or denigrated. However, a new version of the book “Concepts of God in Africa” (which relates the scene described above) says Christianity was actually helped by some aspects of traditional religion. [556 words, ENI-12-0258]