West Africa (Sierra Leone): Original Papers, 1851-1876
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Release : 2018
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Release : 2018
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Author : Church Missionary Society
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Missions
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Author : Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0739180037
This anthology reflects the complex processes in the production of historical knowledge and memory about Sierra Leone and its diaspora since the 1960s. The processes, while emblematic of experiences in other parts of Africa, contain their own distinctive features. The fragments of these memories are etched in the psyche, bodies, and practices of Africans in Africa and other global landscapes; and, on the other hand, are embedded in the various discourses and historical narratives about the continent and its peoples. Even though Africans have reframed these discourses and narratives to reclaim and re-center their own worldviews, agency, and experiences since independence they remained, until recently, heavily sedimented with Western colonialist and racialist ideas and frameworks. This anthology engages and interrogates the differing frameworks that have informed the different practices—professional as well as popular–of retelling the Sierra Leonean past. In a sense, therefore, it is concerned with the familiar outline of the story of the making and unmaking of an African “nation” and its constituent race, ethnic, class, and cultural fragments from colonialism to the present. Yet, Sierra Leone, the oldest and quintessential British colony and most Pan-African country in the continent, provides interesting twists to this familiar outline. The contributors to this volume, who consist of different generations of very accomplished and prominent scholars of Sierra Leone in Africa, the United States, and Europe, provide their own distinctive reflections on these twists based on their research interests which cover ethnicity, class, gender, identity formation, nation building, resistance, and social conflict. Their contributions engage various paradoxes and transformative moments in Sierra Leone and West African history. They also reflect the changing modes of historical practice and perspectives over the last fifty years of independence.
Author : Church Missionary Society
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Page : 946 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Missions
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Author : Edwin Munsell Bliss
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Missions
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Author : Church missionary society Oxf. dioc
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : Charles Henry Robinson
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Church history
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Author : Jehu Hanciles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0313076669
Henry Venn, secretary of the London-based Church Missionary Society from 1840 to 1872, coined the term euthanasia of a mission to describe the vital process whereby a foreign mission becomes progressively indigenous and independent. His vision of church autonomy was first implemented in Sierra Leone, and the author examines this experiment in detail to uncover the nature of early efforts at constructing an African Christian identity separate from foreign influence and control. Through a detailed analysis of the crises and controversies evoked by African interpretation and appropriation of Venn's vision, the author illustrates the complex interaction of foreign missionary action, indigenous Christian response, and socioeconomic factors in the problematic transition from mission to national church. Venn's ideas had far-reaching influence on the growth of African nationalism, political consciousness, and nation-building. His experiment led to local efforts to merge with the foreign missionary efforts and to an eventual takeover of leadership and mission responsibilities by native Africans. Hanciles chronicles the initial missionary efforts in Sierra Leone, the growth of the mission, the problems that arose, and the emergence of Ethiopianism, a movement which promoted the idea of African nationalism. The book argues that in the West African region, at least, Venn's experiment precipitated some of the most profound ecclesiastical crises of the 19th century and unleashed powerful forces of change that continue to this day. By focusing on the African factor in the intensely problematic transition from mission to national church, this work contributes to the ongoing reappraisal of the significance of African Christianity as a major stream of Christian history.
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Missions
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Author : J Kofi Agbeti
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9789964912703