Author : Aribidesi Usman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107064600
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Author : Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0810863162
Since independence in 1960, Nigeria has undergone tremendous change shaped by political instability, rapid population growth, and economic turbulence. The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria introduces Nigeria's rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of information on important contemporary issues like AIDS, human rights, petroleum, and faith-based conflict.
Author : Roland Allen
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0718840062
"If it were once believed that the freedom of churches should be restricted to bring greater control to missions, Roland Allen sets out to overturn this conception. Warning against the danger of imposing greater limits on churches, the Author advocates that all members of the church, 'natives' and foreigners alike, must take an active role in its establishment and daily life. The study divides itself into nine chapters; the first, introducing Allen's standpoint, the second as an opening into thenature and character of Spontaneous Expression. The third chapter deals with modern attempts by 'natives' towards the liberty of their churches. The fear of the doctrine becoming weakened by natives taking it into their own hands is addressed by chapter four and this fear is widened into the realm of the Christian standard of morals in chapter five. Civilisation and enlightenment form the central themes of the sixth chapter. Chapters seven and eight tackle the distinction between the Church andmissionary societies. It is in the final chapter that the future of Spontaneous Expansion is investigated and Allen puts forward his ideas which, as he rightly predicted, were broadly accepted fifty years and longer still after their original publication."
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Microforms
ISBN :
Author : Femi J. Kolapo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 303031426X
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.
Author : John D. Hargreaves
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : Mieke van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004321195
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under international law of former colonial States is addressed. Such a legal responsibility would presuppose the violation of the international law that was applicable at the time of colonization. In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used cession and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights over land (dominium). The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in the context of the acquisition of territory and the expansion of empire, mainly through extending sovereignty rights and, subsequently, intervening in the internal affairs of African political entities.
Author : IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : 2880329868
Author : David Hilliard
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2013-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1921902027
David Hilliard's God's Gentlemen, originally published in 1978, remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission. Starting with its New Zealand beginnings and its Norfolk Island years (1867-1920), the work follows the Mission's shift of headquarters to the Solomon Islands and on until the beginning of the Second World War. The Mission, which grew out of the personal vision of the first Church of England Bishop of New Zealand, George Selwyn, formally defined its field of work as 'the Islands of Melanesia' although its activities were confined almo.
