The story of an extremely suscessful unconventional black missionary

The African chief converted to Christianity by Dr. Livingstone

By Stephen Tomkins, BBC News, 18 March 2013
It is 200 years since the birth of David Livingstone, perhaps the most famous of the missionaries to visit Africa in the 19th century. But as author and Church historian Stephen Tomkins explains, the story of an African chief he converted is every bit as incredible as Livingstone’s.

The man who stopped the desert

Yacouba Sawadogo

By Devon Ericksen, 
Nourishing the Planet

 In the documentary film, “The Man Who Stopped the Desert,” a farmer named Yacouba Sawadogo struggles to maintain his livelihood in the increasingly harsh land of northern Burkina Faso. Part of Africa’s semi-arid Sahel region, Burkina Faso has suffered from desertification as over-farming, overgrazing, and overpopulation resulted in heavy soil erosion and drying.