University of Johannesburg History 2A 2023

The Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland sent him in 1881 to revive the flagging Blantyre mission, which had been wracked by violent scandal and depleted by staff resignations and the dismissal of its leader, Rev. Duff Macdonald.[3] Upon arriving at Blantyre, Scott set to work repairing relationships with local chiefs that had been damaged in preceding years by the deleterious conduct of the mission staff. Under his supervision, the mission strongly promoted the Presbyterian ideal of mission as education, and schools for boys and girls would in time raise many of the future indigenous leaders of colonial and post-colonial Malawi.[4] Evangelism was also a priority, and churches were planted in proximity to Blantyre and further afield: Mulanje, Domasi and Zomba, and Ngoniland.[5] The Blantyre mission also developed as an industrial mission under Scott’s tutelage, where converts could learn the sort of practical skills that Scott and his colleagues believed would incorporate them into the wider economic and social world of the British empire.

While the plaque provides a basic description of the attack of Jan. 28th, 1904, it does not provide historical context for the battle nor does it provide critical details about the decisive use of firepower during it. After Germans began arriving in Southwest Africa in 1884, it did not take long before they clashed with tribes living in the region. A tentative peace was established in 1894, but encroaching on native lands continued to such an extent that discontent was soon simmering again.

Led by Henry M. Stanley, this expedition crossed Africa, Canadian Journal from the Congo River via Lake Albert and Lake Victoria to Zanzibar between of~evelopment 1887 and 1889

Rather, the assumption is that ivory production neces- Studies sarily moved through space, continually driven by the need to find more elephants to kill

Fourth, several important works on the ivory trade assume that there was no demand for ivory within Africa. The trade was therefore entirely driven by demand outside the continent

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