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European Exploration and Africa' Self-Discovery.pdf - 1 views

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  • This article is a reflection on this basic ambivalence in the meaning and philosophical implications of a transient episode in African history. What needs to be remembered is that men cast in certain roles, such as explorers, become not merely historical figures but also intellectual symbols
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      nondumiso on 26 Apr 23
       
      the explorers played a significant role in making those unrecognized African precious things and making them visible to the whole world
  • This is indeed an important consideration. To 'discover' the lake was in fact to see something which generations of Africans before had seen and touched and utilised. Europeans seeing the lake for the first time were at best instruments of dissemination for a body of knowledge which had already been acquired by others before them.
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      nondumiso on 26 Apr 23
       
      In reality, the lake was something that had already been seen, touched, and used by generations of Africans before it was "discovered." But when Europeans first saw the lake, they served it, at best, and wanted to turn it into a special discovery. The arrival of European explorers also shed light to some development in Africa
  • Many of the former were missionaries, or supported by missionaries, and what they were committed to was not a preservation of African culture. They were out to Christianise Africa—in a total, transformative sense. As James S. Coleman once put it, ' Tropical Africa had a special attraction for the missionaries. The heathen was his target, and of all human groups, the Africans were believed to be the most heathen.
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      nondumiso on 26 Apr 23
       
      Many of the explorations were sponsored by academic societies, many of whom were secular missionaries in their own right. Sometimes the gathering of scientific knowledge was elevated to the level of a moral requirement. The evangelical goal of opening up Africa to the light of science and exposing African superstition to the antidote of reason also inspired some of the philanthropic backing that the learned organizations received.
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The Role of Missionaries as Explorers in Africa.pdf - 3 views

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  • Innumerable and complex factors affected the routes taken by missionaries and the selection of sites for their stations. Still, some common characteristics emerge as typical through successive periods. This paper attempts to present these phases in a condensed overview
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      nondumiso on 25 Apr 23
       
      European explorers were on a mission to study Africa, which also led to the earliest attempts to Christianize North Africa and the establishment of the Coptic Church, from there merged a lot of exploratory endeavors. That resulted Due to the nature of their work, missionaries had to look for individuals as the missionary movement grew in popularity around the end of the eighteenth century.
  • exploration is an ongoing process and the history of discoveries is also the history of communication among different parts of the world, and of the widening and the contracting of the channels for communication. There are still Europeans and Americans who know about some distant and obscure place through modest mission magazines and missionary lectures rather than through mass media and scholarly journals.
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      nondumiso on 25 Apr 23
       
      The majority of missionaries were extremely driven to learn African languages because they believed that communicating with people was essential to their profession and in order to better understand Africa, the majority of missionaries insisted on teaching in indigenous languages and also introduced manuscripts and bibles written in indigenous language. Mission chains, extended and intensive occupancy, outflanking a competitor's movement, and mission fields are all terms that are used in mission strategy.
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Ethnographic Appropriations: German Exploration and Fieldwork in West-Central Africa.pdf - 1 views

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  • however, it was often only the slogans that entered general awareness, for example, those concerning the "lower" races or stages of development that, especially in relation to Africa, were pushed in the direction of the apes as a misunderstood echo of the discussion on the descent of man. Or else it was believed that the "childlike" African was to be discovered at the "level of barbarism", an imp
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      nondumiso on 25 Apr 23
       
      European explorers arrived in Africa with the mentality of Darwin's teachings, which assumed that people should go through certain stages of development and they should be in such behavior . this led to the explorers to misunderstood Africans as barbarian and illiterate
  • anity. Themes current at the time were the deflecting of misunderstandings that Darwin's work had given rise to as regards the relationships between apes and humans, the question of the differences between animal and human, and the prehistory of humanity generally. Peschel did not expressly defend merely the notion of the unity of the human race but also of its fundamental variability. He established as a conclusion that on the basis of a series
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      nondumiso on 25 Apr 23
       
      with Darwin's work being so popular, Peschel decided to defended both the idea of the human race's inherent diversity and its claim to be one race. she argued that races of human beings come together in their mental movements in such a surprising manner that, at least with respect to intellectual capacity, the unity and identity of human nature cannot be doubted. Peschel 's work tried to distinguish the difference between humans and animals
  • The German researchers in Angola and Africa did not remain untouched by these political and ideological currents in this period. They absorbed them even more strongly than other people in Germany, where parts of the world of economics and finance, as also the public, had long reacted to the colonial idea with reserv
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      nondumiso on 25 Apr 23
       
      The first colonial association in Germany was established in 1848, but it wasn't until the 1870s, with the establishment of the Empire, that colonial plans in Germany started to receive greater attention. Which led to the German researchers in Africa to adopt the ideology and started to want to colonize parts of Africa in order to initiate their interest of opening markets and trade. This drew more explorers to Africa and led to the formation of slave trade.
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