diff --git a/clutter/cogl/cogl.h.in b/clutter/cogl/cogl.h.in
index af4b26597..b5bb55d10 100644
--- a/clutter/cogl/cogl.h.in
+++ b/clutter/cogl/cogl.h.in
@@ -55,22 +55,6 @@ G_BEGIN_DECLS
  * General utility functions for COGL.
  */
 
-/* Context manipulation */
-
-/**
- * cogl_create_context:
- *
- * FIXME
- */
-gboolean        cogl_create_context           (void);
-
-/**
- * cogl_destroy_context:
- *
- * FIXME
- */
-void            cogl_destroy_context          (void);
-
 /**
  * cogl_get_option_group:
  *
@@ -628,6 +612,18 @@ void            cogl_push_draw_buffer         (void);
  */
 void            cogl_pop_draw_buffer          (void);
 
+
+/*
+ * Internal API available only to Clutter.
+ *
+ * These are typically only to deal with the poor seperation of
+ * responsabilities that currently exists between Clutter and Cogl.
+ * Eventually a lot of the backend code currently in Clutter will
+ * move down into Cogl and these functions will be removed.
+ */
+
+void            _cogl_destroy_context          (void);
+
 /* XXX: Removed before we release Clutter 1.0 since the implementation
  * wasn't complete, and so we assume no one is using this yet. Util we
  * have some one with a good usecase, we can't pretend to support breaking
diff --git a/clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.c b/clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.c
index db5541148..39415a02a 100644
--- a/clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.c
+++ b/clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 static CoglContext *_context = NULL;
 static gboolean gl_is_indirect = FALSE;
 
-gboolean
+static gboolean
 cogl_create_context ()
 {
   GLubyte default_texture_data[] = { 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x0 };
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ cogl_create_context ()
 }
 
 void
-cogl_destroy_context ()
+_cogl_destroy_context ()
 {
   if (_context == NULL)
     return;
diff --git a/clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-context.c b/clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-context.c
index 1d2d02843..5b6ce7c1b 100644
--- a/clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-context.c
+++ b/clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-context.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 static CoglContext *_context = NULL;
 static gboolean gl_is_indirect = FALSE;
 
-gboolean
+static gboolean
 cogl_create_context ()
 {
   GLubyte default_texture_data[] = { 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x0 };
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ cogl_create_context ()
 }
 
 void
-cogl_destroy_context ()
+_cogl_destroy_context ()
 {
   if (_context == NULL)
     return;
diff --git a/doc/reference/cogl/cogl-sections.txt b/doc/reference/cogl/cogl-sections.txt
index 25f5e98c8..6ee2d9517 100644
--- a/doc/reference/cogl/cogl-sections.txt
+++ b/doc/reference/cogl/cogl-sections.txt
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ COGL_UNPREMULT_MASK
 CoglPixelFormat
 CoglBufferTarget
 <SUBSECTION>
-cogl_create_context
-cogl_destroy_context
-<SUBSECTION>
 CoglFeatureFlags
 cogl_get_features
 cogl_features_available