Samuel Johnson of Yorubaland, 1846-1901 : Identity, Change and the Making of the Mission Agent Paperback / softback
by Kehinde Olumuyiwa Olabimtan
Part of the Africa in Development series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:350 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:19/06/2013
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- ISBN:9783034308090
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:350 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:19/06/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9783034308090
