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Uzoechi Contents List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Chima J. Korieh 1 Chapter One All Things to All People: Christian Missionaries in Early Nineteenth Century South Africa Roger B. Beck 11 Chapter Two The CMS Niger Mission, Extra-Territorial Forces of Change, and the Expansion of British Influence in the Niger Delta during the Nineteenth Century Waibinte Wariboko 35 Chapter Three Catholicism, Protestantism, and Imperial Claims in Kabaka’s Buganda, 1860–1907 Raphael Chijioke Njoku 53 Chapter Four Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: The Intersection of Church, State, and Kongo Performance in the Belgian Congo Yolanda Covington-Ward 73 vii viii Contents Chapter Five To Hang a Ladder in the Air: Talking about African Education in Edinburgh in 1910 Ogbu U. Kalu 101 Chapter Six Mission, Colonialism, and the Supplanting of African Religious and Medical Practices Jude C. Aguwa 127 Chapter Seven Conflict and Compromise: Christian Missions and New Formations in Colonial Nigeria Chima J. Korieh 147 Chapter Eight West Indian Church in West Africa: The Pongas Mission among the Susus and Its Portrayal of Blackness, 1851–1935 Waibinte Wariboko 167 Chapter Nine Collaborative Landscape: Missions, States, and Their Subjects in the Making of Northeastern Tanzania’s Terrain, 1870–1914 Michael McInneshin 187 Chapter Ten Anglo-American and European Missionary Encounters in Southern Sudan, 1898-Present Gideon Mailer 203 Notes 235 Selected Bibliography 279 Contributors 289 Index 293 List of Tables Table I: West Indian Missionaries in the Pongas Mission at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 180 ix
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