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Title: | The Seventh-Day Adventists (S.D.A.) in the Protest Politics of the Tonga Plateau, Northern Rhodesia |
Author: | Dixon-Fyle, Mac |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | African Social Research |
Issue: | 26 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 453-467 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | Baptist Church national liberation movements Religion and Witchcraft nationalism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism |
Abstract: | Survey of the activities of members of the Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) church on the Tonga plateau during colonial rule, from the early 1900s to mid-1950. More than any other church group, the SDA were responsive to the political imperatives of the times, they were more united in their action, and the existence of a centre of SDA settlement at Keemba Hill appears to have given central direction to the extra-church activities of the SDA membership. Over the years, the SDA church acquired a reputation for producing Africans who were given to much insubordination, and the role they played in the protest movement on the Tonga plateau further served to confirm the white settlers' suspicions. Notes, map. |