Tracing the Unholy Path of Christianity to West Africa

History is the teacher of the wise. YVe learn to live in the present and in the future by what happens in the past. YVe avoid the mistakes of the past and build on the strengths, courage, zeal, and prosperity of the past. It is like almost everything has a good and a bad side. This paper looks at the positive aspect of slavery especially as this history interacts with the history of Christianity in Nigeria. The paper ascertains that tans-Atlantic slavery was one of the major factors for the advent of Christianity in Nigeria and many other parts of West Africa. The paper acknowledges that slaver)' was abhorred and caused great damage to Africa yet something good came out of it. Slavery was a brain child of the Christian religion and it was practiced by Christians and this enabled the slaves to hear the gospel. After the abolition those slaves served as agents of bringing the gospel to their kinsmen.