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Title: | Joseph Booth, Charles Domingo, and the Seventh Day Baptists in Northern Nyasaland 1910-1912 |
Author: | Lohrentz, K.P. |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 461-480 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Malawi |
Subjects: | Baptist Church colonial administration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181044 |
Abstract: | An intense desire among Africans in northern Nyasaland was revealed, during 1910-12, to acquire an education apart from missionary control by the establishment of the Seventh Day Baptist separatist churches and independent schools. The action also provided the context for patterns of African-European interaction which fostered the formulation of anti-European attitudes. One link in the chain of events which led to the establishment of the Seventh Day Baptist movement was labour migration, the other was Joseph Booth, one of the peculiar, as well as influential, figures in the introduction of Christianity into Central Africa. Charles Domingo was the movement's most articulate and politically conscious leader. Attempted is to assess more precisely the role of the Seventh Day Baptist movement as a case study in African reactions to missions and to colonial rule. Note, map, summary. |