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In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church
Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to
evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi
Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of
the Upper Niger and Confluence area, whose communities were
threatened or already conquered by an expanding jihadist Nupe
state. In this book, Femi J. Kolapo examines the significance of
the mission as an African-rather than European-undertaking,
assessing its impact on missionary practice, local engagement, and
Christian conversion prospects. By offering a fuller history of
this overlooked mission in the history of Christianity in Nigeria,
this book reaffirms indigenous agency and rethinks the mission as
an experiment ahead of its time.
In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church
Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to
evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi
Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of
the Upper Niger and Confluence area, whose communities were
threatened or already conquered by an expanding jihadist Nupe
state. In this book, Femi J. Kolapo examines the significance of
the mission as an African-rather than European-undertaking,
assessing its impact on missionary practice, local engagement, and
Christian conversion prospects. By offering a fuller history of
this overlooked mission in the history of Christianity in Nigeria,
this book reaffirms indigenous agency and rethinks the mission as
an experiment ahead of its time.
This work provides insights into important moments in the European
colonization project in Africa, and into structural intersections
between the active agents of colonialism and the different layers
of Africa's socio-political structures. It reveals the
indispensability of the African peoples, their pre-colonial
establishments, and knowledge of the colonial encounter. The book
also clarifies the significant impact that African people's
choices, chances, mistakes, and internal politics had in
structuring their colonial experience and European dominance.
Colonized Africans and colonizing Europeans had to negotiate the
nature of their relationship: the grid, nexus, and hierarchy of
colonial power and authority were constantly under construction,
deconstruction, and reconstruction. African Agency and European
Colonialism expounds upon these beclouded features of Africa's
engagement of colonialism. It is appropriate for students,
scholars, political analysts, sociologists, and other professionals
interested in the social and political history of Africa.
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