2025· Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies· Vol 2· 0 citations
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This article examines the history of German missionaries in the colonial Mbeya, a southwest region of Tanzania, from the 1880s to 1918. It explores how missionaries influenced political, social, and economic changes that had a profound impact on the lives of the local population. The article investigates the secular roles of missionaries, which, although they supported evangelisation, they were not directly non-secular aspects. In doing so, the article considers missionaries' efforts in education, health, agriculture, trade, and tax collection, which sometimes led to them working as colonial intermediaries in certain areas of Mbeya. Based on primary and secondary sources, the article argues that missionaries' works instilled technical skills and social knowledge, thereby playing a significant role in the development and shaping of people of Mbeya socially, politically and economically. These missionary activities have remained non-religious heritage to the people. The article contributes to the literature of secular missionary influences and heritage in the global South.
This study explores the history, growth, and influence of Christianity in Central and East Africa, focusing on the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. It examines how Christianity spread across these regions through the efforts of both Catholic...
Boniface Mutisya Kimotho· International Journal of App...· 0 citations
This article examines the persistent underdevelopment of Christian-majority regions in Indonesia – Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, Mentawai, and Nias – despite the presence of Christians for over a century. These regions face high poverty, limited education, and weak socio-economic structures. This study concerns not only...
Amos Sukamto· International Journal of Asi...· 0 citations
This article contends that religion remained central to understanding ‘nationalism’ in Britain and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This proposition will be demonstrated in concrete form through reading, and cross
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reading, three interpretations of the Revolt of 1857: John Kaye’s A History of...
R. Govind· Studies in People's History· 0 citations
Catholic missionary activity in the Dutch East Indies developed within a colonial environment in which evangelization was frequently intertwined with European political and cultural assumptions. Previous studies had largely emphasized the historical and theological significance of Maximum Illud but had given less atten...
Antonio Camnahas, Oktavianus Gili Leo· MELINTAS· 0 citations
This article traces the Church of Scotland's involvement in Kenya from the arrival of missionaries in 1891 through to 2022, examining how this relationship shaped both the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) and the Kenyan nation. Beginning as a spin-off from the Imperial British East Africa Company, the mission...
Kenneth R. Ross· Scottish Church History· 0 citations
This study critically examines the role of the Church in the trajectory of Nigeria’s national
development through a historical and interdisciplinary framework. Drawing on secondary
sources, the paper adopts an integrative analytical approach that situates the Church’s
contributions within the pre-colonial, colonial,...
M. Jones· African Journal of History a...· 0 citations
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