MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA

1. MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA EARLY MISSIONARIES ACTIVITES GREATLY CHALLENGED by climate , diseases and stubborn rulers

2. EVANGELICAL & STOPING SLAVE TRADE why? Britain had industrialized • Activities in east, west, central and south Africa, came due to calls of John Wesley, • Calls by William Wilberforce -parliament • 19th Century missions- • church missionary society (CMS) , • London missionary society-(LMS), • Holy Ghost Fathers, • Universities Mission to Central Africa, • the Baptist missionaries • Many missions were from Britain, France, Germany, America & Holland

3. EARLY MISSIONARIES • Germans –krapf &Rebmann -East Africa • David Livingston- Central Africa -Ndebele • Speak & grant also in East and Central Africa • Successful areas- Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cape Coast ,Buganda, Kongo, • Challenged by Islam at East coast, West Africa & North Africa • Challenged by traditional religion & rulers in various regions &climate

4. NEGATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS 1 Africans viewed as barbaric & inferior 2 conversion to faith-conditional 3 destruction of African culture & lose of land -to build mission centers 4.Division among the Africans along various denominations e.g. Religious wars in BUGANDA between WA-FARANZA= French Catholics & WA-INGELEZA =British Protestants & POLITICAL ACTIVITIES e.g. Alexander Mackay a CMS from Scotland hated catholic priest father Loudel

5. POLITICAL ACTIVITIES 5. Sent messages to home government for protection, from who? Sent messages of Africa as an “Eldorado” 6. Involved in land appropriation e.g. lose of land in Kenya and the Rudd Concession Rev. Helm misinterpreted document to king Lobengula what the treaty was all about, Rudd the richest diamond mine in the world was lost to Cecil Rhodes Lobengula fought but Cecil had maxim guns . Charles Stokes gave guns to Christians to fight in Buganda in the Battle of Mengo –Here the Flag followed the cross

6. POLITICAL ACTIVITIES • Missionaries taught mainly the “B” Attitudes e.g. • Blessed are the poor…created a sense of submissiveness to authority ,hence prepared Africans to be controlled socially, politically and economically- • Destroyed the existing political structure by making • hereditary rulers irrelevant e.g. All were equal, Yet African believed in divine kingship. • Divided people on religious and ethnic lines hence prepared Africans to conquered during Scramble i.e. –divide and rule- British Policy • Represented Africans in Legco hence Political.