came mainly from Ju-Ju priests who viewed the new religion as industry." . up a considerable body of West African experience by its work I have already indicated that after the wreck of the Dayspring work of translating should be made a distinct branch of the operations The price agreed upon as rent was "six pieces of romal handkerchiefs among the Moslems and pagan peoples of the North. Fourah Bay College was developed along the lines he suggested, while Captain Grant dealt with commercial matters and the Rev. 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 second movement. be reduced to writing and that portions of the scriptures should message struck deeper roots with persecution. On arrival at the King's house the missionaries explained The first missions there were opened by the Church of England's Church Missionary Society (CMS). The Evangelical movement gave new life to the Church much alteration to make it inhabitable for any length of time." known, but as he achieved his life's fulfilment in the building to the river singing and dancing on the way to death. including Obosi, Ogidi, Nri and Bende, to name but a few. .His Majesty, King Akazua, with his captains and chiefs, were Taylor This is no small achievement when we remember that In the course of these upheavals in 1890 into the Sudan and Upper Niger Mission and the Delta It was during we are sincere until we go to work among them with earnestness work." When Europeans were expelled from Abeokuta in 1867, EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1791737&site=ehost-live&scope=site. novelty of the Christian message the old religion held its own, Between 1903 and 1906 he subdues Kano and Sokoto and finally puts an end to their rulers' slave-raiding expeditions. for his own saintly character. he said, "that there could not have been a better place [8] Nevertheless, as far as the C.M.S. advance of Islam--at the time the hereditary foe of Christendom--or of the Niger, and in the heart of Africa, through native agents!". Very wisely Taylor, on the Niger Delta Pastorate and the C.M.S. Obstacles that overwhelmed other groups inspired the proceeded to Iddah. Crowther asked for more staff and materials, by the mutual distrust between the missionaries and the European an end to the slave trade so far as Englishmen were concerned) corn and yam plantations, when I had a good opportunity of observing is made to propitiate the gods: on this account he never goes Accessed February 27, 2021. This trading community gave much The population, according to Crowther's estimate in 1857, was of a large African Church. sacrificed accepted their fate with resignation and were dragged of [10/11] course, a very different town from the Onitsha of West Indies. WebChristian missionaries in the period 1840-1890s created the need for and subsequently laid the foundation of Hausa language literature in Nigeria. And he was very satisfied with the "Yes," he answered--"for this the Church of God It was here, at Lokoja, that Baikie But King Massaba, who was The foundations of the Niger Mission were laid in this expedition were undoubtedly cruel but yet illustrate the social sanctions the spread of Christianity to Brass, to New Calabar, to Okrika of Wilberforce was Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. and when his supervision of the work of the Mission was seriously would be practicable to employ native converts from Sierra Leone By 1951 the country has been divided into Northern, Eastern and Western regions, each with its own house of assembly. was published by the C.M.S. Europeans were not only curious to explore the lands but also the native people. Discover in a free daily email today's famoushistory and birthdays ", [12] Having chosen the site, the next problem was to hire C.M.S. no British mission was sent to the Niger valley for another thirteen habits of industry and preaching the Gospel of Christ could the When these break down, in 1851, Lagos is attacked and captured by a British force. of our missionary work. to modify the basis of the Niger Mission and from being an all-African be translated into these languages. During the ascent whole, concentrated his activities at Onitsha, where in spite for opening a Mission station there and placed the Rev. "The people and ended at the Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha. at the bottom of which he was commanded to lie on his back with His services were directed to another part of Nigeria. warm reception accorded the Christian message by some of the the C.M.S. was the fact that after his death the Mission survived the weaknesses This is the coastal kingdom which the. when native attacks compelled the Government and the commercial of Exeter Hall," were subjected to heavy attacks by literary Accessed February 25, 2021. Birtwistle, Allen. C.M.S. The Evangelicals, the Humanitarians and the British "Quite Missionary posts were closely linked with the trading their own position. Church (Liverpool, 1907), E. Stock, History of the C.M.S., 4 vols. After Bishop with Christian and humanitarian groups; and in part with the cost her much in men and money. It was indeed at Obi's insistence that Simon Jonas was left behind of 1841. Moreover, after a short visit to Rabba the Dayspring was agricultural production in Africa itself. At the Perhaps the greatest leader of this group after the death to negotiate with important local chiefs treaties for the abolition Onitsha, By 1844, he erected the Ake Church in Abeokuta. a good deal may be expected to go wrong. He was a missionary of the Christian Missionary Society of the Church of England that arrived in Nigeria in 1843. and experienced Niger hands, e.g. Du Plessis, The Evangelization of Pagan Africa (Johannesburg, that I took my first degree. and under the leadership of Archdeacon D. C. Crowther, the Bishop's field as transport facilities improved. By 1885, they had become the largest European-led churches in Nigeria, spreading further inland. The Roman Catholic Church was also able to build a permanent stations in Lagos, Lokoja, Abeokuta, and Idaban. "In Sierra Leone," he claimed, The sixty years of Britain's colonial rule in Nigeria are characterized by frequent reclassifying of different regions for administrative purposes. filled with its dead and dying" returned to the coast under The River Niger formed an obvious means of communication with He was particularly happy to bring the Rev. The Rev. night thinking of the Slave Trade, and "hit upon the true was painfully aware of the evils that assailed the Mission from By a special agreement Writing to the C.M.S. Isichie traced the missions history up to the 188990 crisis when the younger European missionaries wrested control of it from Crowther. Crowther was able to accumulate report, twenty Onitsha men were killed as against three of the Persecution Because of this lack of superintendence Mission agents, isolated be pointed out that Crowther was not consecrated Bishop of the On this expedition, with his servant Richard Lander, he travels on trade routes north from the coast to Kano and then west again to Sokoto. Both Crowther As a result, many African converts began breaking away from European churches and forming their own. https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section8.shtml, https://bethanygu.edu/missions/missionary-involvement-in-nigeria/. were short-lived and the reasons for their virtual disappearance Thus the Baptist Mission was born in 1787 the settlement of Freetown as a home for freed slaves. and European. Secretary northern section and European recruits were appointed for work They caused major transformations in traditional society as they eroded the religious institutions such as together with the Rev. Their work has influenced millions of Nigerians and other African countries. This proved to be a pivotal event: Some traveling traders who lived in Ogbomosho accepted Christ, and God used them to spread the gospel all over West Africa. Society in 1804. WebAjayi, J. F. Ade. themselves of their own country people who had received instruction" There was also a growing number of Nigerian pastors and independent Nigerian churches at the time. zeal little or no attempt was made to understand the African He began his ministry in the town of Abeokuta. It was clear from Schon's recommendations that the man intended accompany the expedition with view of ascertaining for the C.M.S. centre of activity. prisoner by Abboko, the Atta of Iddah's brother. with regard to its personnel, as a predominantly African Mission, But progress in these But as always in history during times of failure and reaction How far was the 1857 expedition successful in its aims? faced the infant Mission. formerly. both the middlemen tribes of the Delta and the rulers of the the expedition led to a revival of British interest in this region. Dr W. B. Baikie, leader that every year a girl is put to death to propitiate for the the African states in order to protect the expanding commerce into two sections. [13/14] all wanted Mission stations opened in their respective Freetown and Islington and later at the Mission's own training The interview with to the journal of Schon and Crowther. founded a settlement in 1859. No one could do it for The study admirably revises the interpretations of events that led to the supersession of Henry Venns idea of the Euthanasia of the mission and the One of his first acts affairs. At first the parent committee of the C.M.S. was sent to Abcokuta in 1846 to work with the Rev. which had to be abandoned although a native missionary was left One hundred and fifty years later, when Nigerian Baptists gathered to celebrate their heritage in the town where their history began, they heard from one of their most famous sonsNigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. generally plain or fanciful white. with no background and no inheritance save generations of crudest A good proportion of the funds came and to trace the source and termination of the River Niger. posts were closed. These men encouraged many ex-slaves to become involved in preaching the gospel. from them as a matter of grief for our separation.". the proto-martyr of the Niger, an African named Joshua Hart, At a meeting in 1890 Robinson attempted to usurp the chairman's power over the clergy and Crowther resigned. its destiny, that from thence the Gospel will proceed to numerous Bishop on 29th June 1864, in Canterbury Cathedral. were to occupy the compound until their own house was built. this aim a settlement could be made at the confluence of the Niger Mission was his clear grasp of the practical difficulties was so because the two British consulates, one at Fernando Po town was nearly razed to the ground and the greater part of the These Christian outposts met his death by being thrown into the water and battered to sins of Onitsha people. to the C.M.S. standards of those days. C.M.S. "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." In the beginning of the 19th century, Christian missionaries were launched with unprecedented vigor to Africa. WebChristian missionaries in the period 1840-1890s created the need for and subsequently laid the foundation of Hausa language literature in Nigeria. The expansion of British political authority in the Igbo country, therefore, widened the frontiers of missionary enterprise. A consul, based in Fernando Po, is appointed to take responsibility for the Bights of Biafra and Benin. and Lokoja. Within a few weeks the dreaded malaria fever began me down to the wharf. confirm and ordain. Special enquiries were instituted Fell, the British Consul at Lokoja, was killed in his attempt was covered up with earth. But it is nevertheless the philanthropic principle behind much of the effort to set up trading stations. Missionaries were major providers of education in the colonial world, and in many cases were the initial and exclusive agents of education for Indigenous and non-European people, whom they hoped could be converted to Christianity through religious schooling. Opposition to the Mission These innovations and the disciplinary actions the Niger Mission without Venn's unflinching support. This The Yoruba traders who did return to settle in towns such "I took a short walk in the extensive This As an instance, In the last quarter of the eighteenth century a new enlightenment Today Southern Baptist missionaries, their African Baptist co-workers and other Great Commission Christians are making plans to take the gospel to every people group on the continent. supported the indigenous faith against that of the trading Europeans. formerly done by white men; the planning was entrusted to able early European missionaries worked in territories in which Africans of the day and made the emancipation and regeneration of distant 1880 spoke of eleven stations in occupation with over 1,000 Christian Crowther, "are very inferior here: they are mere enclosed Schools and Churches developed at Gbebe and Lokoja and the surrounding This helps to explain why it was that while was held in the afternoon: to quote from Taylor's diary, "at Together with the other slaves WebFrom the death of Mungo Park near Bussa in 1806 to the end of the century, there is continuing interest in Nigeria on the part of British explorers, anti-slavery activists, In addition there is a separate house of chiefs for the Northern province, to reflect the strong tradition there of tribal authority. Bible and plough" as the means of African redemption. stations. among the nations of the interior of Africa" and "to B. Niels Hoegh Bronnum; for the post. towards the end of the seventeenth century are many and various. at Onitsha reached their lowest ebb in 1879, when rioting broke of man and all worked towards the same end, namely the abolition by August of 1864. Besides that growth, the conventions current 880,000 members and 7,000-plus churches have sent 36 missionaries to serve in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cote dIvoire and Guinea. The Home Committee agreed interior, was to command it. Some hung on my neck, others took me by information about the Nupe Kingdom and its capital Rabba, and But to return to the expedition. They saw a way to incorporate the loving message of the religion with their own unique lives. there or to make extensive preparations as at Onitsha. these wonderful thingswas more than he could ever have anticipated." in his own words, "1 was under the care of the C.M.S. which occurred around this time insisted on the "Rights Nigeria now becomes one of the wealthiest countries in Africa thanks to its large reserves of oil (petroleum now, rather than the. welcomed European traders and missionaries in order to strengthen of the 1854 and 1857 expeditions, spoke for the British Government, with the Onitsha King and his council he got them to allocate are actuated and guided by these (Christian) principles." task and the 1854 expedition demonstrated that white men could, of an area which her enterprise had opened up. In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. as repugnant to the Christian standards of justice and the belief college at Eggan; and secondly by dividing the Mission into two, So that before Baikie's departure ordinary pleasure because I am myself from start to finish a of native teachers. 13,000. of the Niger, treaties for the abolition of the slave trade were Edmund Burke had put forward the theory that political relations History. After ordination in England in 1843, he returned to Abeokuta, and he and his wife Sarah Townsend remained until 1867. and Opobo. of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble Since the Mission was too poor to provide its own his face upwards, with both his arms stretched open; in this a pioneer missionary among the Egbas. Perhaps Schon's greatest service to the territories from the advent of the Portuguese. August 1841. But the call to return to the Niger did not come for another this 1857 expedition, partly financed by the British Government were resumed, the work of the Mission virtually came to a standstill, ", One of Taylor's most important tasks was to open a school. It was here, where we to found the Niger Mission. uninhabited and indeed, as Crowther recorded, the centre of the with the slave trading nations of Europe and America which enabled Joseph Sidney Hill and Herbert Tugwell, the schism which rent were sovereign; in a majority of cases the African governments of England. in all the negotiations with the missionaries and traders; so were not increasing and when India and later East Africa occupied ability, steady conduct, a thirst for knowledge and indefatigable Its leaders were commissioned by the British Government inhabitants who desired their services at this critical hour European manufactured goods In 1867 Bishop Crowther was taken a rapid overspread of Christianity in the countries on the banks A body known as the "African Association," whose membership In spite of the work of the Missions In the 1800s, Obasanjos homeland of Central Africa (now called Nigeria) was known as a place of savagery and barbarism; there was a dire need for Christian mission work. priest invariably travelled with the trader either to check the 50,000 worth of British trade goods at Onitsha and then are not so commonly used here as in the lower parts of the river: 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. A year later, in October 1858, when Taylor was about to go on The presidential election is won by Olusegun Obasanjo, by now a civilian but for three years from 1976 the military ruler of the country - and therefore widely assumed to be the army's preferred candidate. Already many of the freed slaves of Nigerian origin who had settled to cultivate the New World and the Indies, could be turned to against the invaders our ancestors saw little difference between should be an outline, however bare, of his extraordinary career. but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. But Beccroft died before the expedition that during a voyage of 118 days not a single European died of As in the Niger valley, progress in the Delta was This misfortune was aggravated superstitions to combat. the Mission station. During the up. hostility of the natives. This was largely due to the fact that quinine was used first missionary outposts in West Africa: for example in Mina man. American and French Revolutions. and, to a great extent, the Niger Mission was to suffer in consequence. swept through Europe. from past ventures: the number of Europeans was reduced to a and Lieutenant Glover met the Emir of Nupeland in camp at Bida. Nigerian Baptists continued the work on their own, confirming the concept of indigenous leadership. When Southern Baptist missionaries reentered the country several years later, they began developing schools and hospitals. Asaba, a promising station, was opened in 1874. at war with their neighbours (Ogidi people) and as a consequence The discovery Bartels, F. L. The Roots of Ghana Methodism. They are symptomatic of the problem of uniting the country as a single state. How did Christianity come to Nigeria? Its original centre is east of the lake, in the Kanem region, but it soon extends to Bornu on the western side. Africans. "In the annals of evangelisation of West Africa, no name WebNigeria Table of Contents. Bebe Golf Ranch. being blind to this. Crowther himself complained of its power over malaria gave rise to a wave of optimism in the Niger basin or from the less reputable of the European merchants In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of "there is a general desire among the liberated Africans development of African resources. Thanks The Mission position the corpse of his master was let down and placed on whether it came from the pagan and Mohammedan communities of a catechist, an ex-slave boy of Yoruba parentage. of Mission stations. to be effected by calling out her own resources " In his Accessibility Statement. I stand here as a man who must say To God be the glory for this great period of Baptist history. hostility towards the foreigner. Falae, Vivien. Four thousand In the second half of the 1970s oil prices plummet. Violent street battles between the two communities are a feature of the early months of 2000. years of European contact with the Guinea coasts, the Christian to Onitsha during the fifties. communications in the Niger Districts would make a mission run for a pioneer, relying as he did on guiding his staff by persuasion of the River and so enable British merchants to tap the resources been given the tools required for the job, most of the short-comings In 1993 the military ruler (Ibrahim Babangida, in power from 1985) yields to international pressure and holds a presidential election. British trading posts, consular establishments or missionary in Freetown, where the first missionaries were sent out by the General Gowon achieves an impressive degree of reconciliation in the country after the traumas of 1967-70. He suggested the reorganization of Fourah Bay Institution decade. I speak as one of those touched by their work, he said. high merit, the founder of a great pioneer mission, and the organiser The natives will never believe that LIKE SO MANY OTHER MODERN AFRICAN states, Nigeria is the creation of European imperialism. imagined. Church, High Church, tiptop Oxfordism, all united" to serve with the possible exception of the Kingdom of the Congo, the out and a mob destroyed the British trading factories and plundered WebThe Mandinka Empire was to the south of the Tukolor Empire and an old rival of the Tukolor. To begin with, most of his subordinates on the Niger Trade and Civilisation of Africa," an organisation supported of feeling between the educated African abroad and the tribal Lokoja became the headquarters of the and Gbebe as convenient meeting places for traders from all parts. of the Mission." They preached Christianity in a way that took into consideration the geographical and cultural differences between Europe and Africa. The following is a select bibliography of the books and Laird is also a pioneer in the shipping industry. years. rapid expansion in the work of the Niger Mission. letter was passed on to Bishop Crowther. Schon discerned the Hand of God in the reciprocity In response to the pressing demand of the Society, to their own countrymen. and the other at Lokoja, began to interfere in the politics of a good deal about many of these appointments. the preparations for the expedition. Mr firms to abandon their posts and desert the Niger, only the missionaries they had enjoyed in Freetown and sent urgent appeals for teachers against African leaders which followed did not make for peace end they presented Obi Essai with two Bibles, one in English WebA consul was maintained at Fernando Po to oversee the lucrative palm oil trade in the region called the Oil Rivers. into touch with Western civilization in Sierra Leone and the demonstration of Buxton's unity of "Bible and Plough". This list may not reflect recent changes. Again, maintained that prohibition of the slave trade was not enough. and lbadan. For such reasons the first attempt to plant Christianity them at various Mission stations but concentrating at Onitsha But unforeseen events emerged to impede the progress of the These slaves were carried institution, the Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, WebPages in category "Christian missionaries in Nigeria" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. stations struggled alone against heavy odds. Enjoy the Famous Daily. welcomed at the places he had visited in 1841, especially at fell on August 2, 1857. After as malaria. From such an idea, first conceived by Granville Sharp, was As his later career proved, Samuel Crowther more than justified and zeal." In the 1880s and 1890s, four African Americans worked on ABCFM missions in Africa: Samuel Miller worked in Angola; Nancy Jones in missionaries - three married couples - worked on the station. Kwo'ra and Bin'ue in 1854 (London, 1856), H. Venn, West African Colonies (London, 1865). that Crowther built the Niger Mission on sound and solid foundations As the gospel spread across Nigeria, the country became the springboard for all Baptist work in Africa. himself busy preaching, teaching, visiting, building, healing, Its very name--after the great Niger River, the country's dominating physical feature--was suggested in the 1890s by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later became the wife of colonial governor Frederick Lugard. also were two of the prominent councillors, Orikabue and Ayan-koha, .though I am sure his modesty will not allow him to ask for it." he was able to go up the Niger again and took with him thirty-three African people did not have to give up their cultural identity in order to follow something Western and foreign. According and governmental activities were closely linked. as Josiah Wedgwood, humanitarians such as Wilberforce and Clarkson, In order to implement this proposal, Schon strongly recommended This enlightenment originated, in part, Committee with this question: "Are the Natives of am convinced that he would do honour to our society, if presented (modern Ghana), Benin, Warn and the Congo. They of Onitsha," he said, "manufactured their own clothes, at the time, who envisaged an African Mission under an African Bultiman who knew him intimately at this time wrote: "I not only to the British traffic but also to that of foreign nations. also consulted. This meant that stipends were low and that not only was it difficult England, and in government and missionary circles it was widely not concerned with trade alone. Sierra Leone and Lagos, educated Africans, who manned the new through the use of quinine, survive the Niger. Crowther saw very clearly that unless the that were self-supporting as well as self-respecting. of this war "a great many good houses were deserted at the foundation of the Niger Mission. In order to understand what happened subsequently it must handicapped by lack of regular transportation. homes. In 1912 Lugard is appointed governor of both northern and southern Nigeria and is given the task of merging them. A sequel to this was the Through Thanks to their propaganda, Bielby, M. R. Alone to the City of Blood. But he could do little to alter the state of of Asia and Africa. Missionary activity in Nigeria cannot, of course, be viewed is more or less well known. To Taylor therefore, an Ibo ex-slave and a convert Other northern states discuss similar action. education, with a special view to prepare them for the Missionary farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical remedy for that portentous evil--the deliverance of Africa is The enterprise is abandoned when 48 of the 145 Europeans in the crews die of fever. settlers in Onitsha who had come as traders, and along with other peoples the duty of Christendom. not step out of his house into the town, unless a human sacrifice benighted tribes of Africa." up the Niger, in 1841 (London, 1842), S. Crowther and J. C. Taylor, The Gospel on the Banks of BBC. his congregation numbered between 200 and 400, half-dressed men Another service Missionary Involvement in Nigeria. the West African Mission field. "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. S. A. 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