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| Title: | Missions, States, and European expansion in Africa |
| Editors: | Korieh, Chima Jacob Njoku, Raphael Chijioke |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 302 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies history, politics, economics, and culture |
| City of publisher: | London |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 0415955599; 9780415955591 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa West Africa Congo (Democratic Republic of) Nigeria South Africa Sudan Tanzania Uganda |
| Subjects: | missionary history colonial policy |
| Abstract: | The essays in this volume, most of which derive from a panel at the 48th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, held in Washington DC on 17-20 November 2005, analyse specific cases of collaboration between missions, State and colonial expansion in late 19th-century Afro-European relations. Contributions: All things to all people: Christian missionaries in early nineteenth century South Africa (Roger B. Beck); 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); Catholicism, Protestantism, and imperial claims in Kabaka's Buganda, 1860-1907 (Raphael Chijioke Njoku); Threatening gestures, immoral bodies: the intersection of Church, State, and Kongo performance in the Belgian Congo (Yolanda Covington-Ward); To hang a ladder in the air: talking about African education in Edinburgh in 1910 (Ogbu U. Kalu); Mission, colonialism, and the supplanting of African religious and medical practices (Jude C. Aguwa); Conflict and compromise: Christian missions and new formations in colonial Nigeria (Chima J. Korieh); West Indian Church in West Africa: the Pongas Mission among the Susus and its portrayal of blackness, 1851-1935 (Waibinte Wariboko); Collaborative landscape: missions, States, and their subjects in the making of northeastern Tanzania's terrain, 1870-1914 (Michael McInneshin); Anglo-American and European missionary encounters in southern Sudan, 1898-present (Gideon Mailer). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
