Tshepo Masango Chéry charts a new genealogy of early twentieth-century Black Christian activists who challenged racism in South Africa before the solidification of apartheid by using faith as a strategy against global racism.

Abbreviations  ix
Tlhompo/Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Thy Kingdom Come on Earth  1
1. “My Blood Is a Million Stories”: The Making of Coloured Identity  13
2. Faith of Our Fathers: The Ethiopian Movement and African Identities  29
3. In the Name of the Father: The Manye Sisters and Church Formation  54
4. Ministries of Migration: George McGuire, Robert Josias Morgan, and the Transformation of Black Churches in the West Indies and the United States  83
5. Garvey’s God: Racial Uplift and the Creation of the African Orthodox Church  105
6. “We See on the Horizon the Sun of African Orthodoxy”: Church Growth in Southern Africa  122
7. Seeds of Freedom: Growing Orthodoxy and Freedom in East Africa  151
Epilogue: Thy Will Be Done  179
Notes  187
Bibliography  219
Index  239