Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa

by Chima J. Korieh, Raphael Chijioke Njoku

Overview

Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa’s encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range of perspectives to address the intersection between missions, evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans; and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African societies.

Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary endeavours and official colonial actions could all be conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies in their encounter with African societies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415955591
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/25/2007
Series:	African Studies
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Korieh, Chima J.; Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Table of Contents

List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Chima J. Korieh Chapter One All Things to All People: Christian Missionaries in Early Nineteenth Century South Africa Roger B. Beck Chapter Two 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 Chapter Three Catholicism, Protestantism, and Imperial Claims in Kabaka’s Buganda, 1860-1907 Raphael Chijioke Njoku Chapter Four Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: The Intersection of Church, State, and Kongo Performance in the Belgian Congo Yolanda Covington-Ward Chapter Five To Hang a Ladder in the Air: Talking about African Education in Edinburgh in 1910 Ogbu U. Kalu Chapter Six Mission, Colonialism, and the Supplanting of African Religious and Medical Practices Jude C. Aguwa Chapter Seven Conflict and Compromise: Christian Missions and New Formations in Colonial Nigeria Chima J. Korieh Chapter Eight West Indian Church in West Africa: The Pongas Mission among the Susus and its Portrayal of Blackness, 1851-1935 Waibinte Wariboko Chapter Nine Collaborative Landscape: Missions, States, and Their Subjects in the Making of Northeastern Tanzania's Terrain, 1870-1914 Michael McInneshin Chapter Ten Anglo-American and European Missionary Encounters in Southern Sudan, 1898-Present Gideon Mailer Notes Selected Bibliography Contributors Index