Jesus of Africa is the most comprehensive study of African Christology available anywhere. It includes accounts of academic Christologies in both French and English, but perhaps most importantly gives major space to reporting on the views of ordinary Africans on Jesus and their relationship to him.This book is an amazingly complete and readable survey of African Christology tracing the way in which trained theologians and village Christians see and understand Jesus as an integral part of African life. Stinton works at extending an horizon first viewed by Kwame Bediako and Andrew Walls, who were among the first to realize that Christian reflection in Africa is today at a stage very similar to that of Christian reflection in the Mediterranean in the second century of the common era. She has an eye for how theology is being reconceptualized as titles such as messiah/christos/the smeared one, are translated into new languages and new symbolic universes. Aware that many African theologians are more at home in European than African languages, Stinton reflects acute awareness of how theology as it is done in intermediate