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| Title: | Thompson Samkange: Tambaram and beyond |
| Author: | Ranger, Terence O. |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | November |
| Pages: | 318-346 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | 1938 Methodist Church African Independent Churches conference papers (form) Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft |
| About person: | Thompson Samkange (1893-1956) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1580989.pdf |
| Abstract: | In March 1938 Thompson Samkange received an invitation to the International Missionary Conference to be held at Tambaram in Madras in December of that year. Samkange was then in his forties and was very much a representative of the first generation of African Christians in southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His three years of ministerial training confirmed him in a highly activist Methodism. This paper examines the influence Thompson's attendance at the Tambaram Conference had on him. It first discusses Thompson's preparations for Tambaram, including his answers to the preparatory organizing questions for the Conference. Next, his journey to Tambaram and the discussions he had underway with colleagues, especially the South African delegates, are examined. The 12 to 29 December Tambaram meeting itself made an intense impression on Thompson. He felt remade. Back in southern Rhodesia, Thompson became Superintendent of Pakame Circuit. In the long term Pakame was to be the testing ground for the application of the ideas Thompson brought back from Tambaram. Disillusioned as he was with Rhodesian Methodism on his return from the wonders of Tambaram, he settled down to make Pakame work. There is no doubt that at one fundamental level Thompson and his wife did build a future indigenous Church in Pakame, but Pakame was also the setting of strife, bitterness and failure for Thompson. Notes, ref. |
