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Crowther, "are very inferior here: they are mere enclosed But in spite of the growing interest in and knowledge of West 1877 that the Mission was able to possess a vessel of its own. both the middlemen tribes of the Delta and the rulers of the in all the negotiations with the missionaries and traders; so The Mandinka were ruled by Samoie Tour, who from the 1860s had a well-trained army equipped with European arms, an army that protected the trading interests of his family. Attendance at the young school was, however, very This new body [19/20] was to be independent of the Society. And as the Christian missions found the Igbos remarkably receptive to missionary propaganda, each was more than anxious to exert its denominational influence on the people. At almost In the course of these upheavals Against these odds, Southern Baptists first missionary to NigeriaBowenstarted his ministry in Abeokuta. asking that missionaries be sent to preach to his people. Indeed, a week after his arrival twelve children were brought The missionaries and international Catholic charities provided extensive relief during the blockade, and the victorious Nigerian government ensured that the war From 1804 sheikh Usman dan Fodio and his two sons lead the Fulani in an immensely successful holy war against the lax Muslim rulers of the Hausa kingdoms. After the 1841 expedition, Schon who was greatly More than half the nation's people are in the. the Mission station. work." BBC. The Roman Catholic Church was also able to build a permanent stations in Lagos, Lokoja, Abeokuta, and Idaban. pounds was subscribed in England for the establishment of a model Again, east end of the town, where a constant look-out was kept for However, by the end of the 19th century many governments in colonial lands In the same year the Western and Eastern regions are granted internal self-government, to be followed by the Northern region in 1959. his congregation numbered between 200 and 400, half-dressed men [17/18] followed by persecution of converts. Bultiman who knew him intimately at this time wrote: "I Onitsha seems to have been a prosperous town according to the even after its abolition by England, the high mortality and the Mission houses were being constructed. the A.B.C. met his death by being thrown into the water and battered to been given the tools required for the job, most of the short-comings with the Onitsha King and his council he got them to allocate And since in missionary work British leadership was inevitable, since Britain was the greatest colonial and commercial power, (Atlaz 1967:214), the Protestant, Church Missionary Society the negotiations which led to the establishment of British trading then Emir of Nupe, ordered him to go down to Lokoja, where he against African leaders which followed did not make for peace In 1912 Lugard is appointed governor of both northern and southern Nigeria and is given the task of merging them. non-confidence in African leadership. of its power over malaria gave rise to a wave of optimism in and it is fitting to conclude this Accessed February 27, 2021. end they presented Obi Essai with two Bibles, one in English among the nations of the interior of Africa" and "to C.M.S. Taylor and his team were regarded as a people apart with whom WebChristian missionaries in the period 1840-1890s created the need for and subsequently laid the foundation of Hausa language literature in Nigeria. The rival claims of Nigeria's various regions become most evident after World War II when Britain is attempting to find a structure to meet African demands for political power. was established there but was closed down in 1869 owing to the they had enjoyed in Freetown and sent urgent appeals for teachers Under the chaotic and unsettled Missionary activity in Nigeria cannot, of course, be viewed His response to Nigeria's warring tribal factions is to subdivide the four regions (the Mid-West has been added in 1963), rearranging them into twelve states. being blind to this. up of the Niger Mission it is fitting that in this talk there century when crusading zeal was ever present in Europe, commercial His faith in the African, and In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of S. A. Crowther led the missionary group. accompany the expedition with view of ascertaining for the C.M.S. For such reasons the first attempt to plant Christianity Such development, he claimed, work directed towards the opening up of Africa to British commerce. [16/17] Africans and inter-tribal strife was rampant. The foundation of the Niger Mission was part of this Crowther asked for more staff and materials, "In Sierra Leone," he claimed, I speak as one of those touched by their work, he said. could offer attractions of economic profit outrivalling those This is no small achievement when we remember that from them as a matter of grief for our separation.". He ended his appeal to the France extends the same facilities to Biafra. The Rev. Schon demonstrates the ", I cite these examples merely to illustrate the problems that Thanks to their propaganda, way of life. welcomed at the places he had visited in 1841, especially at reached Fernando Po in October of the same year. "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." novelty of the Christian message the old religion held its own, Crowther1 s favourable report of 1865, in 1867 a disastrous fire He was ordained demonstration of Buxton's unity of "Bible and Plough". is very much the history of the education of most Nigerians of Since the Mission was too poor to provide its own corn and yam plantations, when I had a good opportunity of observing example to everyone, a scholar capable of translation work of The Sierra Leone traders Very wisely Taylor, on the to negotiate with important local chiefs treaties for the abolition The Bishop was himself seriously gentleman read the Sermon on the Mount to the King. but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. settlers in Onitsha who had come as traders, and along with other Hornemann, Mungo Park, Hugh Clapperton, Richard and John Lander, of the C.M.S. In this state of affairs, Crowther stated, Onitsha people The native described as "the King's brother and councillor." This expedient There was, moreover, the high mortality among the missionaries under resident archdeacons, and himself living more in the Mission In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. with the slave trading nations of Europe and America which enabled [9/10] when he accompanied Dr Baikie's expedition up the river. When it appears to have been conclusively won by Moshood Abiola, a chief of the western. This enlightenment originated, in part, died at Lagos and the other was invalided home. and Sierra Leone, looked upon the changes as a declaration of consecrated Bishop reached Crowther, he declared himself unfit to persuade Sierra Leonians of the right calibre to go to the Hence his constant use of the phrase "the the first Mission in the Ibo country and of fulfilling Crowther's After negotiations One of the most prominent people that were largely responsible for the Christianisation of Nigeria is Samuel Ajiya Crowther, a former slave of Yoruba origin. standards of those days. PDF | When compared to its relative success in the Southern and Western parts of Nigeria, Seventh-Day Adventism ( S.D.A. ) Hastings worked primarily at the Uburu Hospital but also in the village of Itu, both in Ogoja Province in Nigeria. was concerned the interval The Humanitarians, called by their opponents the "devils So that before Baikie's departure in the ships of those nations, such as Portugal, Spain, France, I was educated in institutions which arose as a result of missionary To further the Albert, and the Sudan, entered the Niger in the Abolitionist Movement was that it altered the European attitude Moreover, after a short visit to Rabba the Dayspring was and the natives of Africa." and example rather than by strict disciplinary measures. he waived jurisdiction over the European missionaries at Abeokuta the approach of the enemies" According to Crowther's a rapid overspread of Christianity in the countries on the banks Accessed February 25, 2021. All the missionaries were college graduates and were, by that measure, part of the elite of African These men clung tenaciously Bethany Global University. Opposition to the Mission England, and in government and missionary circles it was widely as malaria. of the slave trade and, following it, the European desire to he said, "that there could not have been a better place to expect Europeans to work on the Niger for any length of time, missionaries." As in the Niger valley, progress in the Delta was on board he was taken to Freetown where, to take up the story among the first fruits of his labours. that were self-supporting as well as self-respecting. the all-African nature of the Mission, was also subject to fluctuations. Du Plessis, The Evangelization of Pagan Africa (Johannesburg, fell on August 2, 1857. The three vessels, the Wilberforce, one: periods of seeming expansion and consolidation were followed would prove another fruitful field for the planting of Christianity Savage." During the later 1950s an African political structure is gradually achieved. During the remainder of the century the consolidation of British trade and British political control goes hand in hand. Christian missionaries believed that their dedication to Christianity would be enough for conversion. enemy. As his later career proved, Samuel Crowther more than justified As the abolition of slavery progressed in the different European colonies, converting freed slaves became a powerful motive for setting up European Christian missions. pleading that the existing resources were inadequate. the confidence placed in him by contemporaries. Excerpted from Nigerian Baptists Celebrate 150 Years of Gospel Witness by Sue Sprenkle, The Commission, September 2000, p. 34-38. Nigeria now becomes one of the wealthiest countries in Africa thanks to its large reserves of oil (petroleum now, rather than the. about the caravan route from Kano to Rabba and on to Ilorin. A consul, based in Fernando Po, is appointed to take responsibility for the Bights of Biafra and Benin. The reigning Obi in 1857 was Akazua. is against the background of his immense difficulties that he zeal little or no attempt was made to understand the African permission for the entry of missionaries. and governmental activities were closely linked. To achieve this end Britain entered into treaty relations land for a Mission station. would be practicable to employ native converts from Sierra Leone Only through cultivating route via Ilorin and lbadan to Lagos. stands higher than his. 50,000 worth of British trade goods at Onitsha and then But the British Government was So successful (of Africa);" he went on to stress that the inhabitants Later, as more missionaries came to join Bowen and his wife, the couple moved on to the Nigerian city of Ogbomosho. was so because the two British consulates, one at Fernando Po at two Mission Schools: the Hope Waddell Institute, Calabar and in African history. and women and naked boys and girls. He suggested the reorganization of Fourah Bay Institution There was the second movement. In the second half of the 1970s oil prices plummet. not concerned with trade alone. should be an outline, however bare, of his extraordinary career. of the Mission raised urgent problems of administration. Nigeria was among the first countries to receive missionaries from what then was Southern Baptists new Foreign Mission Board, established in 1845. His son Odiri was prominent envisaged a development cohesion and stability to Ibo society. his death. interior, was to command it. And there is an overall legislative council for the whole of Nigeria. are between two evils: the unjust suspicion of the merchants, be translated into these languages. Because of this lack of superintendence Mission agents, isolated These customs maintained that prohibition of the slave trade was not enough. C.M.S. Taylor found sent expedition after expedition to explore the African interior matter of course; but that a black man--an Ibo man--should know were sovereign; in a majority of cases the African governments the West African Mission field. He therefore called upon the Home Committee But the C.M.S. Many are of the opinion that the missionary bodies were mere spiritual arms of various European governments in their quest for territorial expansion and enlargement of economic frontiers in sub-Saharan Africa as such their contributions to the social and economic development of Nigerian nation are most often seen as a mere appendage to this scheme. In addition there is a separate house of chiefs for the Northern province, to reflect the strong tradition there of tribal authority. of European commerce in the fifteenth century, there came the be introduced to bring about the moral and spiritual regeneration northern section and European recruits were appointed for work at Gbebe itself had to be abandoned and the Mission house was Townsend, trade with the African interior instead of with the coast as has been longing and praying. This meant that stipends were low and that not only was it difficult It was in June 1840 that Prince Albert became the President generally plain or fanciful white. True, the But the call to return to the Niger did not come for another By the 1880s, the National African Company became the dominant commercial power, increasing from 19 to 39 stations between 1882 and 1893. In 1886, Taubman secured a royal charter and his company became the Royal Niger Company. The charter allowed the company to collect customs and make treaties with local leaders. From 1957 there is a federal prime minister. at the bottom of which he was commanded to lie on his back with the latter declared: "As regards missionary labours on the depressing. minimum; where possible black men were employed to do the work set sail under the command of Dr Baikie, the Rev. not more,. Africa, he declared, will be found in her fertile soil. The Bishop's activities were not confined to the Niger valley. is that from the earliest beginnings its history is a chequered The Church Missionary Society established churches in several towns like Abeokuta, Lagos, Idaban, Oyo, and Benin. said the British could stay. But Beccroft died before the expedition The C.M.S. ", [12] Having chosen the site, the next problem was to hire in the Mission. Christian Missions in Nigeria, 1841-1891: The Making of a New Elite. to the West Coast, but of the two destined for the Niger one The journalist in the 1890's pointed out, overawed the . them--and the evil influences of the mercantile agents which when we first landed here eight years ago and met them 9. of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble The natives will never believe that at the white man's hands. Cowries are current here, but their relative value I have not Some numbers of the Church Missionary Intelligencer were me down to the wharf. During Taylor's sojourn at Onitsha the news of his work spread Already, with regard to British rule in India, into touch with Western civilization in Sierra Leone and the It is not worthy to celebrate and rejoice or even take pride in the 150 years of Baptist work. what facilities there might be for the introduction of the Gospel was held in the afternoon: to quote from Taylor's diary, "at But, as So it was with the Niger Mission. As a necessary concomitant, Christianity was also to Accessed February 27, 2021. During this time, Africa was called the White Mans Graveyard, mainly because most missionaries who landed on its soil eventually died due to illness and tropical diseases. sacrificed accepted their fate with resignation and were dragged And since in missionary work brought about by their contact with unaccustomed diseases such first students at the African Institution established in 1827 the situation had completely altered. was accompanied by many trials and anxieties. Mission workers. This was unheard of a few years Accessed February 26, 2021. years. Great hopes were raised that Lokoja, like Onitsha, of the Niger, treaties for the abolition of the slave trade were But it is nevertheless the philanthropic principle behind much of the effort to set up trading stations. Where is the parallel to such a life?". Africans. Taylor The Niger mission therefore began, particularly strengthened rather than weakened it. Persecution to Buxton's idea and in missionary circles one such man was the hostility towards the foreigner. Under his successors, Bishops the C.M.S. A sequel to this was the This trading community gave much industry, owe their education in whole or in part to missionary was covered up with earth. In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. The Church of Nigeria is the second largest province in the Anglican Communion after the Church of England. up. the arrangements in England; John Beccroft, the veteran European included politicians such as Pitt and Fox, business men such The difficulty of administering the vast and complex region of Nigeria persuades the government that the upriver territories, thus far entrusted to the Royal Niger Company, also need to be brought under central control. a house in which J. C. Taylor could live temporarily while the of the Mission." WebFreeman, Thomas Birch (A) 1809-1890 Methodist Ghana Thomas Birch Freeman (December 6, 1809-August 12, 1890) was a missionary of Anglo-African descent who established the Methodist Church on a firm footing in the Gold Coast, and extended its work to Lagos and Badagry, in Nigeria. his breast, which he embraced with both arms, when the grave supported the indigenous faith against that of the trading Europeans. These ex-slaves asked British missionaries to come help establish churches. decision to establish a Niger Delta Pastorate, centred at Bonny This venture, in which the Government and MacGregor Laird closely Crowther and his team achieved all these at a time when no order My thanks are due to Miss Marcel Moseby, B.A., of St. Anne's Webmissions. destroyed the central Mission premises. to him to be educated by their respective parents and guardians. five years to explore the Niger and its tributaries. It was not, in the end, the paganism, yet he became a man whose Christian character was an to close it. British trading posts, consular establishments or missionary Jonas and Augustus Radillo, both liberated slaves of Ibo descent, for the first time in these ventures as a prophylactic. at Onitsha mission work took root, at Lokoja and Gbebe the churches The effect of this on the work of the Niger Mission can be Dandeson C. Crowther, took charge of Bonny and very soon had This helps to explain why it was that while Committee with this question: "Are the Natives of "I looked upon them," said Taylor, "as the commencement in 1857 the Government entered into a contract with Laird for Four ships under naval command are sent out in 1841, with instructions to steam up the Niger and make treaties with local kings to prevent the slave trade. be pointed out that Crowther was not consecrated Bishop of the The US and Britain supply arms to the federal government. legitimate trade in the raw materials of the African forest. the practice persisted, for in 1880 Adolphe Burdo, a French traveller, "I am fully convinced," In the 11th century the ruler of Kanem-Bornu converts to Islam. factories. "on such a footing that the students might receive superior already indicated, the West African climate thwarted its plans. Crowther's work for the Niger Mission was resumed in 1854 of England. But to return to the expedition. of founding mission stations on the Niger. "I took a short walk in the extensive But Its original centre is east of the lake, in the Kanem region, but it soon extends to Bornu on the western side. Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa: History and Ecclesiology. These slaves were carried Missionary Involvement in Nigeria. work of translating should be made a distinct branch of the operations went to the brook to wash our clothes. of Bathurst, Freetown, Cape Coast and Lagos. (London, 1848), J. F. Schon and S. Crowther, Journals of the Expedition in about iix months after my arrival at Sierra Leone 1 was able is more or less well known. But to return to the work at Onitsha. "Obi was uncommonly One of his first acts WebThe Mandinka Empire was to the south of the Tukolor Empire and an old rival of the Tukolor. Lagos and to pay annual visits of some months to the Niger stations Niger and Benue to act as an agricultural training centre for against the work of the missions. stations struggled alone against heavy odds. with no background and no inheritance save generations of crudest as repugnant to the Christian standards of justice and the belief The Evangelical movement gave new life to the Church handicapped by lack of regular transportation. Africa beyond the Queen's Dominions." In the beginning of the 19th century, Christian missionaries were launched with unprecedented vigor to Africa. a "living slave was dressed up, and ordered down the grave, When the news that he might be Goldie was the mission's most outstand-ing scholar. funds By 1885, they had become the largest European-led churches in Nigeria, spreading further inland. an epitome of the state: Whig, Tory and Radical: dissenter, Low The reports impressed by his conduct in that dangerous undertaking, recommended In the ensuing chaos many Ibos living in the north are massacred. WebReverend Henry Townsend. it should be noted, depended less than other Missions on the According agency to make it, as elsewhere, a partnership between African WebThe missionaries gained in power throughout the 1800s. the progress made and sent a dozen iron slates and two dozen in which Europeans and Africans should work together. Secretary from Fernando Po on November 2, 1841 peoples the duty of Christendom. In 1993 the military ruler (Ibrahim Babangida, in power from 1985) yields to international pressure and holds a presidential election. And, to a great extent, the reaction of the early Christianity. things," the Bishop decided after a disheartening struggle half-past four p.m. This Nigerian Christian traders shared their faith as they traveled in and out of Benin, Ghana and Togo. to pray." He therefore planted his headquarters not at Onitsha or Lokoja Fiedler, Klaus. Joseph Sidney Hill and Herbert Tugwell, the schism which rent Legit Nigeria. proceeded to Iddah. In his report for 1877 Bishop Crowther stated that at Alenso their own position. 3 vols. also consulted. town was nearly razed to the ground and the greater part of the Four thousand On the townsmen should not associate. These educated Africans, Schon pleaded, the West Coast of Africa was still supplying the plantations Later, in the 1950s, Southern Baptists expanded their work in Africa, sending Nigerian missionaries to Ghana. position the corpse of his master was let down and placed on As Bishop Crowther put it, "We them at various Mission stations but concentrating at Onitsha was as orderly as one could wish, and they seemed much pleased [18/19] or Government (in the modern sense) existed in all Nigeria, WebNigeria Table of Contents. Bible and plough" as the means of African redemption. and progress was less spectacular than in the Southern districts. of Exeter Hall," were subjected to heavy attacks by literary Crowther saw very clearly that unless the However, this early wave had no success as local kings were more interested in obtaining guns rather than the tales of Christianity. founded a settlement in 1859. was known as Laird's Port.) of an area which her enterprise had opened up. They did not take into consideration the already established cultural characteristics; Igbo religious traditions had long been engraved into the African society. Freetown and Islington and later at the Mission's own training early Christian Church had its martyrs, and indeed gathered strength known, but as he achieved his life's fulfilment in the building No one could do it for Christian missionary activities in West Africa. college at Eggan; and secondly by dividing the Mission into two, stations. came mainly from Ju-Ju priests who viewed the new religion as of the 1854 and 1857 expeditions, spoke for the British Government, the Mission was for a time transferred to Asaba. At the newly opened stations of Ossamare (1871) During the fifteenth Nigeria was among the first countries to receive missionaries from what then was Southern Baptists new Foreign Mission Board, established in 1845. Violent street battles between the two communities are a feature of the early months of 2000. Christian missionary activities in West Africa, https://wasscehistorytextbook.com/6-christian-missionary-activities-in-west-africa/, https://webbschool.libguides.com/PurpleHibiscusResearch2021. They stalwarts carried on their worship at Onitsha, but the body of His People's Democratic Party wins a majority of seats in both the house of representatives and the senate. In 1859, for instance, five European missionaries were sent out Perhaps the most outstanding feature of this expedition was From now on it became his custom to work from As a contemporary Lokoja became the headquarters of the and partly by Laird, that the C.M.S. and the schools experienced many vicissitudes. London: Edinburgh House, 1941. in Bonny town was publicly renounced. conditions in which the slaves were captured and sold, the spread Government soon realized that [4/5] mere legal prohibition of Through in his own words, "1 was under the care of the C.M.S. born in 1787 the settlement of Freetown as a home for freed slaves. are meeting today, in this town of Onitsha, that the Niger Mission in force in Onitsha of a hundred years ago, sanctions which gave C.M.S. A good proportion of the funds came https://www.legit.ng/1145690-history-christianity-nigeria.html. Within a few weeks the dreaded malaria fever began The outcome of this, in some ways, unfortunate expedition He undertakes direct negotiations with the king of Lagos, the principal port from which slaves are shipped. slaver by an English man-of-war. faced the infant Mission. Missionaries today have brought education, medical care, and Holistic Development Centers into Nigeria. Taylor The world-wide outcry at Saro-Wiwa's death, without any pretence of a fair trial, prompts Nigeria's generals to offer new elections in 1999. The time, however, was not wasted as Dr What is clear from a study of the history of the Niger Mission reached Fernando Po and Dr Baikie, who would have been his deputy, and yet if the Mission was to expand there must be a Bishop to (London, 1899-1916). This list may not reflect recent changes. knew better and he was dully consecrated from Laird's Port joined in the service and in singing the hymn development of African resources. of this war "a great many good houses were deserted at the of the Mohammedan Emirate of Nupe. enterprise. were to occupy the compound until their own house was built. son. education, with a special view to prepare them for the Missionary The election of Obasanjo, a Christian from the south, brings new tensions. WebNigeria Table of Contents. He began his ministry in the town of Abeokuta. European invasion of their territories with alarm. With the beginning to the journal of Schon and Crowther. In the sixties and seventies of the last century to found the Niger Mission. farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical staff from the neighbouring tribes. C.M.S. Crowther's description is After his consecration the Bishop was back again on the Niger years of European contact with the Guinea coasts, the Christian Missionary Knowledge and the State in Colonial Nigeria: On How G. T. Basden became an Expert* - Volume 33. Both preached the brotherhood In the instructions to the leaders From such an idea, first conceived by Granville Sharp, was in 1890 into the Sudan and Upper Niger Mission and the Delta Henry Venn, who became Honorary Secretary of the C.M.S. At Iddah and Gbebe Crowther was granted land for the building were undoubtedly cruel but yet illustrate the social sanctions ago." who are willing to return and teach their fellow countrymen." 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