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Title:Serving the Kavango Sovereigns' Political Interests. The Beginning of the Catholic Mission in Northern Namibia
Author:Eckl, Andreas
Year:2004
Periodical:Le Fait Missionnaire: Social Sciences and Missions
Issue:14
Period:July
Pages:9-46
Language:English
Geographic term:Namibia
Subjects:missionary history
Catholic Church
Religion and Witchcraft
Economics and Trade
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://doi.org/10.1163/221185204X00195
Abstract:This article explores the early activities of the Catholic mission in German South West Africa (Namibia), focusing on the establishment of the first Roman Catholic missions in the Kavango region by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) in 1910 and 1913. The history of the Catholic mission in Namibia dates back to the 1860s, but it was not successful until the early 20th century. The article deals with the activities of Father Duparquet in Ovamboland in the 1870s and 1880s, the arrival of the OMI in 1896, and the establishment of the Nyanga mission in 1910 and the Andara mission in 1913. It also examines the reasons behind the Kavango sovereigns' calls for setting up mission stations in the area. It appears that their interests in the mission were essentially political. For the Kavango sovereigns, resisting or welcoming the missionaries was mainly a matter of keeping or gaining their independence, and of strengthening their traditional authority as rulers. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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