Samuel Johnson of Yorubaland, 1846-1901 : identity, change and the making of the mission agent

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    • Olabimtan, Kehinde

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Samuel Johnson of Yorubaland, 1846-1901 : identity, change and the making of the mission agent

Kehinde Olabimtan

(Africa in development, v. 12)

Peter Lang, c2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-337) and index

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内容説明

This study aims to understand how the nineteenth-century African agent of mission appropriated change without losing cultural integrity. Drawing essentially from the contexts that produced the man, from Sierra Leone to the Yoruba country, the study shows Samuel Johnson as embodying the opportunities and ambivalence that progressively accompanied Yoruba contact with Britain in the people’s war-weary century of change. Largely influenced by German missionaries in the British mission environment of Yorubaland, Johnson had confidence in the bright prospect the missionary message held for his people. This propelled him into a struggle to relieve the distressed country from its woes and to preserve the fading memory of its people. In an age of renewed cultural ferment called globalization, could Johnson offer a lesson in how to appropriate change? This is the concern of this volume.

目次

Contents: Looking Back – An Unpromising Beginning – Reorientation – Back to Base –Encountering Other Faiths – Homecoming – Redeeming the Land – Racing against Time – Change and Decay – The Making of the Mission Agent.

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