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God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi.pdf - 0 views

  • derogatory comments about African traditions, cultures and practices.
    • lethukuthula0380
       
      Missionaries treated African traditions as evil and did everything possible to ensure that it was ousted
  • social justice system adopted by the Blantyre Mission whereby Africans were punished with lashings, and at least one African was flogged to death
    • lethukuthula0380
       
      It is important that the Blantyre missions also had negative implications and although they came with the purpose of spreading the Gospel they also subjected Africans to abuse
  • Scholars have proved that missionaries wrote favourably about their host community to show satisfactory progress in their missionary work and justify further financin
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      Financial funding was very instrumental for the missions which is why missionaries purposefully ommitted negative information in their reports about their host communities in fear of losing funding
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  • others were imprisoned, where they would spend days without food
lethukuthula0380

St Michael and All Angels, Blantyre Mission - ESAFRICAN.com - 2 views

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    • lethukuthula0380
       
      The story of Tom Bokwito is one of the many positive things that happened as a result of Christian missionaries, Bokwito was a young boy from Mpingwe who was captured by slave traders and rescued by missionaries.
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    • lethukuthula0380
       
      These are the effects that came about as a result of the Blantyre missions
  • independence
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  • education
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    • lethukuthula0380
       
      Missionaries helped provide access to a more broader and diversified education to people as opposed to the narrow 'primary school" education as the only option
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lethukuthula0380

Rev. Alexander Hetherwick, Blantyre Mission, Malawi, ca.1926 - Calisphere - 2 views

  • Portrait of Rev. Hetherwick (1860-1939). A graduate of Aberdeen University, Hetherwick founded the Domasi Mission, situated near Mount Zomba, in 1884
  • the leader of the Blantyre Mission
lethukuthula0380

Underdevelopment in Malawi: The Missionary Contribution.pdf - 1 views

  • special influence of Scottish m
    • lethukuthula0380
       
      This article speaks to the effect of the arrival of missionaries in Malawi
  • stressed the political and economic
    • lethukuthula0380
       
      It is important to note that the influence of missionaries was not only economical but also political and educational
  • d influence.4 If the political and educational consequences of Blantyre's and Livingstonia's work were so considerable, was their impact on the structure of Malawi's
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  • In the address which he delivered as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1908, Dr Robert Laws, for over fifty years the guiding force at Livingstonia, expressed something of the economic philosophy which dominated the miss
    • lethukuthula0380
       
      Dr. Robert Laws was a Scottish missionary who headed the Livingstonia mission in the Nyasaland Protectorate- which is now called Malawi
  • ld acquire a knowledge of new crops and skills, which they could turn to use for the
    • lethukuthula0380
       
      Dr. Laws stressed the idea that people should become self-sufficient in trade, agriculture, or industry
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