Missions, States, and European Expansion in AfricaChima Jacob Korieh, Raphael Chijioke Njoku Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa's encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range of perspectives to address the intersection between missions, evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans; and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary endeavours and official colonial actions could all be conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies in their encounter with African societies. |
Contents
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Christian Missionaries in Early Nineteenth Century South Africa | 11 |
Chapter Two The CMS Niger Mission Extra Territorial Forces of Change and the Expansion of British Influence in the Niger Delta during the Ninete... | 35 |
Chapter Three Catholicism Protestantism and Imperial Claims in Kabakas Buganda 18601907 | 53 |
The Intersection of Church State and Kongo Performance in the Belgian Congo | 73 |
Talking about African Education in Edinburgh in 1910 | 101 |
Chapter Six Mission Colonialism and the Supplanting of African Religious and Medical Practices | 127 |
Christian Missions and New Formations in Colonial Nigeria | 147 |
The Pongas Mission among the Susus and Its Portrayal of Blackness 18511935 | 167 |
Missions States and Their Subjects in the Making of Northeastern Tanzanias Terrain 18701914 | 187 |
Chapter Ten AngloAmerican and European Missionary Encounters in Southern Sudan 1898Present | 203 |
Notes | 235 |
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Contributors | 289 |
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