Geographical and historical background
Origins of the African church
Tertullian : the "master"
Mid-third-century persecution and crisis in Africa
Cyprian, the "pope" of Carthage
Organization and life of the third-century African churches
The Donatist schism and the division of African Christianity
The diverse African religious landscape in late antiquity
Augustine of Hippo and the glory of the "great church"
The final stages of the African church : from the Vandal invasion to the Arab Maghreb.