Potential Subjects

The following indexes contain potential DACB subjects, both Africans and missionaries, listed here for reference, to inform and encourage future research.

How to use these pages:

1. Consult these pages if you wish to write a biography for the DACB and are searching for ideas of people whose biographies do not yet appear in the DACB. A subject without ENG, FR, POR or SWA in the column next to the name indicates that the DACB doesn’t have a biography on that person. Subjects with ENG, FR, POR or SWA in the links columns have biographies. Return to the country page to view the story.

2. Consult these pages in order to avoid writing a duplicate biography by checking to see whether the DACB has a biography on a specific person. However, we do invite alternate accounts of a subject’s life that enrich and enlarge the biographies already on the website.

3. The bibliographies page contains the full references for the sources in the documents below.

Ancient African Church References Complete bibliographic references noted in abbreviated form in the Ancient African Church index.
All Potential Subjects 4911 Potential Subjects
Ancient Christians 590 Potential Subjects
Algeria 60 Potential Subjects
Angola 42 Potential Subjects
Benin 23 Potential Subjects
Botswana 27 Potential Subjects
Burkina Faso 6 Potential Subjects
Burundi 30 Potential Subjects
Cameroon 114 Potential Subjects
Cape Verde 19 Potential Subjects
Central African Republic 11 Potential Subjects
Chad 6 Potential Subjects
[Comoros] 0 Potential Subjects
Democratic Republic of Congo 182 Potential Subjects
Congo 40 Potential Subjects
Côte d’Ivoire 13 Potential Subjects
[Djibouti] 0 Potential Subjects
Egypt 529 Potential Subjects
Equatorial Guinea 1 Potential Subjects
Eritrea 5 Potential Subjects
Ethiopia 652 Potential Subjects
Gabon 92 Potential Subjects
Gambia 12 Potential Subjects
Ghana 133 Potential Subjects
Guinea 13 Potential Subjects
Guinea Bissau 4 Potential Subjects
Kenya 217 Potential Subjects
Lesotho 112 Potential Subjects
Liberia 36 Potential Subjects
Libya 8 Potential Subjects
Madagascar 234 Potential Subjects
Malawi 91 Potential Subjects
Mali 13 Potential Subjects
Mauritania 4 Potential Subjects
Mauritius 9 Potential Subjects
Mayotte 2 Potential Subjects
Morocco 43 Potential Subjects
Mozambique 165 Potential Subjects
Namibia 47 Potential Subjects
Niger 14 Potential Subjects
Nigeria 437 Potential Subjects
Reunion 6 Potential Subjects
Rwanda 36 Potential Subjects
[Saint Helena] 0 Potential Subjects
[São Tomé and Príncipe] 0 Potential Subjects
Senegal 32 Potential Subjects
Seychelles 2 Potential Subjects
Sierra Leone 138 Potential Subjects
Somalia 3 Potential Subjects
South Africa 519 Potential Subjects
Sudan 139 Potential Subjects
Eswatini 56 Potential Subjects
Tanzania 177 Potential Subjects
Togo 45 Potential Subjects
Tunisia 101 Potential Subjects
Uganda 254 Potential Subjects
[Western Sahara] 0 Potential Subjects
Zambia 124 Potential Subjects
Zimbabwe 83 Potential Subjects
Other Subjects 128 Potential Subjects