This volume looks at the relations between US Protestants and Africa, mainly since the end of colonial rule, but in some cases the historical frame is far larger. The volume has two main foci. The first is South Africa. Articles with this focus are Lewis Baldwin's on Martin Luther King Jr's influence in South Africa, Dwight N. Hopkins's comparison of American and South African theologies of liberation, Drew Smith's analysis of US Evangelicals and social transition after 1994, and Nico Koopman's comparison of public theology in the USA and South Africa. The second main focus is the neo-Pentecostal revival in Africa, and its links with US Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism. Chapters here comprise two by Smith, one already mentioned and the other ranging more widely from Liberia to Zaire, and the characteristically insightful article by Matthews Ojo on Nigeria in which he judiciously balances influences. Other articles which do not fit these two foci include Stephen W. Angell's fine article on ‘Quaker women in Kenya and human rights issues’ which traces the slow impact of Quaker ideals of human equality and women's rights in the Friends' communities in western Kenya, and Lutiniko Landu Miguel Pedro's ‘Mennonites and peace-building in Angola’. Another illuminating article is that by Marsha Snulligan Haney on the changing nature of US-Africa mission partnerships, given the rise in importance of African Christianity. A subtheme in many chapters is the significance of African American missionaries and their general involvement in the US Christian influence in Africa, something one might expect from the editor who is spearheading a ‘Public influences of African-American Churches’ project at Morehouse College. Within the limits set, all the articles in this volume are competent and illuminating.