Missionary colonial mentality and the expansion of Christianity in Bechuanaland Protect... - 2 views
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Bechuanaland Protectorate
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sa5mlea7 on 26 Apr 23This was the name used for what is today known as Botswana
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However, some missionaries gave the impression that no such religious traditions and heritage existed prior to their arrival on the African continent
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When western countries and continents thought of Africa, they thought that the people were barbaric and thus they just cast away the heritage they found there
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Modimo
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Religion was used to legitimize, sustain and even promote political oppression
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The religion was used to assert white dominance and maintain colonisation. This shows that the real "evil" was the missions
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They treated African religions as evil and did everything possible to ensure that it was ousted. The western missionaries believed that traditional religious beliefs and practices were inferior, and together with the traditional customs, had to be done away with before the acceptance of Christianity.
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London Missionary Society (LMS)
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monotheistic
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Monotheism is the belief that there is only one deity, an all supreme being that is universally referred to as God
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attestation
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lack of a concept of Modimo and the total absence of religious beliefs and practices
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Because the Batswana did not have buildings where they worshipped they were seen as sinners and that all the praise on the "Badimos" was just evil. This infarct is incorrect as there are structures were badimos were praised, almost like a shrine
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anthropologically trained
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Missionary education was used as a great weapon to confuse the people's minds. It undermined African culture and the general way of life of the Africans (Nkomazana & Lanner 2007)
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Those educated in missionary schools received a western styled education which did not aim at preparing them to be political leaders of their country, but at taking up subordinate positions in a colonial system.
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These churches taught people how to be weaker, they taught them how to follow and never made them feel independent. Their minds were moulded to believe that they are less than a white man, bottom of the pyramid
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Khama did not only abandon his traditional religion, but also used his political office to impose the tenets of western civilization and Christian values on his people.
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