Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa (African Studies)

315 Pages·2007·1.53 MB·English

by  Chima J. Korieh

African Studies
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Missions, States, and European
Expansion in Africa
Edited by Chima J. Korieh
Raphael Chijioke Njoku
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Missions, states, and European expansion in Africa / edited by Chima J. Korieh and
Raphael Chijioke Njoku.
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1. Missions‑‑Africa‑‑History‑‑19th century‑‑Congresses. 2.
Church and state‑‑Africa‑‑History‑‑19th century‑‑Congresses. 3.
Europe‑‑Colonies‑‑Africa‑‑History‑‑19th century‑‑Congresses. 4.
Africa‑‑History‑‑19th century‑‑Congresses. I. Korieh, Chima J. (Chima Jacob),
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Contents
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Chima J. Korieh 1
Chapter One
All Things to All People: Christian Missionaries in Early Nineteenth
Century South Africa
Roger B. Beck 11
Chapter Two
The CMS Niger Mission, Extra-Territorial Forces of Change, and the
Expansion of British Influence in the Niger Delta during the Nineteenth
Century
Waibinte Wariboko 35
Chapter Three
Catholicism, Protestantism, and Imperial Claims in Kabaka’s Buganda,
1860–1907
Raphael Chijioke Njoku 53
Chapter Four
Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: The Intersection of Church, State,
and Kongo Performance in the Belgian Congo
Yolanda Covington-Ward 73
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Chapter Five
To Hang a Ladder in the Air: Talking about African Education in
Edinburgh in 1910
Ogbu U. Kalu 101
Chapter Six
Mission, Colonialism, and the Supplanting of African Religious and
Medical Practices
Jude C. Aguwa 127
Chapter Seven
Conflict and Compromise: Christian Missions and New Formations in
Colonial Nigeria
Chima J. Korieh 147
Chapter Eight
West Indian Church in West Africa: The Pongas Mission among the Susus
and Its Portrayal of Blackness, 1851–1935
Waibinte Wariboko 167
Chapter Nine
Collaborative Landscape: Missions, States, and Their Subjects in the
Making of Northeastern Tanzania’s Terrain, 1870–1914
Michael McInneshin 187
Chapter Ten
Anglo-American and European Missionary Encounters in Southern Sudan,
1898-Present
Gideon Mailer 203
Notes 235
Selected Bibliography 279
Contributors 289
Index 293
List of Tables
Table I: West Indian Missionaries in the Pongas Mission at the
Beginning of the Twentieth Century 180
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