Missions, states, and European expansion in Africa

Missions, states, and European expansion in Africa [electronic resource] / edited by Chima J. Korieh, Raphael Chijioke Njoku. - New York : Routledge, c2007. - 1 online resource (xi, 302 p.) - African studies . - African studies (Routledge (Firm)) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Chima J. Korieh -- 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.

9780203941287 (electronic bk.) 0203941284 (electronic bk.)


Missions--History--Africa--19th century--Congresses.
Church and state--History--Africa--19th century--Congresses.
RELIGION--Christian Ministry--Missions.


Europe--Colonies--History--Africa--19th century--Congresses.
Africa--History--19th century--Congresses.


Electronic books.

BV3500.A35 / M57 2007eb

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