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The Role of Missionaries as Explorers in Africa.pdf - 2 views

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  • a significant geographical explorer. Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann, German missionaries in the service of the Church Missionary Society in England, were the first white men to see Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro. Rebmann's report about Kibo, the snow covered peak in the land of the Chagga in equatorial latitudes, was straight-forward: The Swahili of the coast call the snow-mountain Kilimanjaro, "mountain of greatness
  • naries in many less spectacular discoveries and contributions to geographic knowledge, some general aspects of the missionary enterprise in Africa should be mentioned.
  • when financially strong societies maintained their own ocean steamers and river boats. 6 Missionaries were also handicapped porters and guides, and some carried guns, but the mere idea and the expense of armed escorts were rarely acceptable to mission societies' boards. Few of their members could judge the African environment from personal experience, and explorations which looked promising to men in the field might be discouraged by influential board members, who would rather promote far-flung journeys into regions that had struck their fancy.
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  • s long as geographic exploration only was incidental to the tasks which miSSIonaries set for themselves, and since the opportunities changed through time and from-region to region, they were as explorers cast into different roles
  • he cause of Commerce and Christianity, rather the same idea which a missionary in South Africa had called the Bible and the Plough, became widely publicized through Thomas Buxton. 13
  • The AfricanS/ave Trade and Its Remedy in 1840, after a shorter version, The African Slave Trade, in 183
  • Liberia in the Zeitschrift fur allgemeine Erdkunde on the basis of missionary reports. 15 Through lectures, which missionaries gave when on home leave, their books, sometimes written in retrospect, and through their numberless communications in journals, there emerges a rather standard and new exploratory role. T
  • intensive exploration was the strategy explicitly formulated for the Holy Ghost Fathers: at least two had to travel together, a region had to be thoroughly explored before a spot for a mission could be selected
  • The Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (C.M.S.) which engaged Krapf, who was trained at Basel, also envisaged the role of exploring itinerants for their servants. Krapf was instructed in 1851 "to branch out far and wide preaching from the little ship, in the temporary abode, by the wayside
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Missionaries in Africa (1).pdf - 2 views

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    This image shows missionaries that came to Africa as explorers and implemented Churches, schools.
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The Cape Dutch Reformed Church Mission in Malawi: A Preliminary Historical Examination ... - 1 views

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  • The Mission entered Malawi in 1889 from the Cape Province of South
  • frica. Whereas the Cape D.R.C.M. opened work in Malawi and, later, in
  • Zimbabwe, its initial efforts in Zambia were transferred early and quickly placed under the sway of the Orange Free State (D.R.C.M.) branch which expanded its operations from Magwero in Chipata (former Fort Jameson) district.
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  • In nineteenth century Africa the "scramble" and "imperialism" involved missionaries as well
  • rom Catholic Portugal now pressing northwards from Mozambique. The political situation in Malawi around the 1880s was extremely fragile as the Portuguese operating from Mozambique strove to establish their territorial claims to the Malawi area "infiltrated" by the British missio
  • ns,'5 as Blantyre Mission of the Church of Scotland dominated the southern region with its headquarters at Blantyre in the Shire Highlands. Murray's choice of Mvera in central Malawi was influenced not only by the salubrious climate in these Dowa highlands but also by its closeness to Mtsala, a lake 'port' for mail and other traffic. Besides, Mvera's position on a slave route in Chiwere's country meant that the mission would help to check this human traffic. This anti-slavery strategy sometimes failed to work, as was the case with Livingstonia Mission16 at Cape Maclear, and also Blantyre Mission to a considerable degree. However, the opening of the first D.R.C.M. Station on 28th November, 1889 in a Ngoni chief's country represented in itself a strategic breakthrough at least in the local political situatio
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      ramzeey on 24 Apr 23
       
      This means that even though missionaries came to SA to spread the gospel but they were also involvled in scramble of Africa and the imperialism.
  • School The village school was not the creation of the D.R.C.M. but it appealed to them in the formulation of their policy on the African's educational needs. The Dutch generally saw Africans as second class citizens, "les damnes de la terre" with no special social organization22 conducive to a civilized mode of life
  • . With their South African origins the Ngoni were people with resolve and discipline of potential use in spreading the missionary message. D.R.C.M. progress in its expansion programme was evident right from the early years of its arrival;'8 by 1923 it was operating ten mission stations which served as control and coordinating centers of the village schools which by 1927 numbered 727 against 343 of Blantyre and 399 of Livingstonia
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      ramzeey on 24 Apr 23
       
      The explorers now had messengers that sent message on their behalf the Ngoni.The explorers implemented 343 of Blantyre and 399 of Livingstonia schools
    • ramzeey
      ramzeey on 24 Apr 23
       
      The Mission was from SA and came to Malawi in 1889 and later branch was opened in Zimbabwe.This means the explorers were trying to spread the word of God in African countries.
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      ramzeey on 24 Apr 23
       
      There was political tension between the Portuguese ruling Mozambique and the British missionaries in Malawi.The Portuguese wants to take full control of Malawi.
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      ramzeey on 24 Apr 23
       
      The missionaries undermined Africans as they viewed Africans as second class, this was because of the different cultural background as they saw African Culture as barbaric and theirs as superior.The level of education was not the same another factor that contributed to Africans being undermined.
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Missionaries.pdf - 3 views

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    This document focus on the Settlers that are spreading religion and also providing health care in Africa.
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SC5100546831 (1).pdf - 1 views

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    The document emphasize more about explorers that were in Blantyre mission.
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