Download or read book The Residue of the Western Missionary in the Southern Cameroons written by Peter Awoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fascinating study of Christian enclaves in the Southern Cameroons of the colonial era. The Christian enclaves came into being with absolute spontaneity as a modus vivendi. Oblivious of the danger in store both colonial governments and traditional authorities provided the conditions in which these Christian villages took root and flourished. However what had taken root in the territory as a self-protection mechanism, soon unleashed its lethal, enticing tentacles luring both the wives of royals and commoners into their bosom. This disruptive influence of Christian villages threatened the survival of ethnic groups, arousing the rancour of traditional authorities and civil administrators. In many ways the Christian enclaves inhibited the potential of colonial governments to administer the territory. These states within a state propagated by the missionary in the most insidious and perfidious of all manners sowed within their own bosom the seed of self-destruction. The whole issue of runaway wives of royals and commoners alike who took refuge in the Christian villages troubled both the colonial and traditional authorities. By offering a safe haven to these runaway wives and welcoming women who were outside the traditional male authority in a tribal setup, the missionaries began sowing within the Christian communities the seeds of their own self destruction. Records of wives of Fons and commoners escaping into these enclaves, eloping with a man and returning pregnant remained the regular subject of several colonial intelligence reports. Highhanded methods by missionaries in these villages brought both the missionaries and their work into disrepute. In less than a quarter of a century these enclaves had lost the war of attrition waged by colonial and traditional authorities. Worn out by endless strife and dissension within and without and forced by contingency, what had been conceived to be ideal Christian communities with snowballing effects, saw its premature demise.
Download or read book The Residue of the Western Missionary in the Southern Cameroons the Christian Village written by Peter Acho Awoh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africans and Negative Competition in Canadian Factories written by Ateh-Afac Fossungu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Fossungu, we need healthy competition for progress. Competition that is not geared toward progress is negative competition. No competition or the absence of self-help is negative competition. With factories competing healthily, consumers have a variety of quality goods and services from which to choose. The entire community benefits when people in any grouping are competing positively; thus making the rules of competition graphical. The central focus of this book is the extent to which Canadian regulations apply without discrimination to all of Canada and to everyone, individuals and corporations alike. A swift answer is affirmative. But is that really it? The book is also about voluntary slavery, which is worse than forced enslavement. Drawing on Ignorance Theory, the book argues that the worst thing that can happen to anyone is to be ignorant of ones ignorance. He who does not know what he does not know will never know. Voluntary African slaves generally employ One Has No Choice (On na pas le choix) to cloak their having chosen not to secure their rights. Fossungu demonstrates why he considers this an escapist way of shying away from doing the normal thing, thus giving the dictator or oppressor reason to dictate and oppress with impunity. This is Fossungu at his provocative and controversial best.
Download or read book Eating and Being Eaten written by B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It argues that cannibalism is practised by all and sundry. In love or in hate, fear or fascination, purposefulness or indifference, individuals, cultures and societies are actively cannibalising and being cannibalised. The underlying message of: Own up to your own cannibalism! is convincingly argued and richly substantiated. The book brilliantly and controversially puts cannibalism at the heart of the self-assured biomedicine, globalising consumerism and voyeuristic social media. It unveils a vast number of prejudices, blind spots and shameful othering. It calls on the reader to consider a morality and an ethics that are carefully negotiated with required sensibility and sensitivity to the fact that no one and no people have the monopoly of cannibalisation and of creative improvisation in the game of cannibalism. The productive, transformative and (re)inventive understanding of cannibalism argued in the book should bring to the fore one of the most vital aspects of what it means to be human in a dynamic world of myriad interconnections and enchantments. To nourish and cherish such a productive form of cannibalism requires not only a compassionate generosity to let in and accommodate the stranger knocking at the door, but also, and more importantly, a deliberate effort to reach in, identify, contemplate, understand, embrace and become intimate with the stranger within us, individuals and societies alike.
Download or read book The African Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mill Hill Fathers in West Cameroon written by Bernard F. Booth and published by Bethesda, Md. : International Scholars Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bernard Booth's important new study explores the work of the Catholic missions in West Cameroon, particularly through the efforts of the English Mill Fathers who laid the foundaion for an educational system that tried to promote the needs of Africans." "Based on research conducted both in the Cameroon, England and Holland, where Bernard Booth met many of the retired missionaries, The Mill Hill Fathers in West Cameroon investigates the basis of missionary work in the Cameroon from the time of the German occupation, 1884, up to World War II. The study analyses their struggle to map the land, build churches, credit unions, orphanages, dispensaries and hospitals as well as develop an effective educational system, focusing particularly on the creation of Sasse College and its role in the education of many of Cameroon's leaders." "This fascinating chronicle of the Mill Hill Fathers' efforts and faith through their years in West Cameroon will be of special interest to missiologists as well as students of West African studies and will also appeal to all those interested in history of the Catholic church in Africa, seen through the work of one of its most devoted orders."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Cameroon on a Clear Day written by Helga Bender Henry and published by William Carey Library. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What significance can one man - only five feet five inches tall and weighing 110 pounds, and given almost as much to poetry and art as to theology - possibly have had for a time of tumult much like ours? Why would a lad virtually a teenager leave Germany for life and citizenship in American and then close his eyes to the fabulous "American dream" and reverse his life course to cast his fortunes instead among native Africans in Cameroon?Carl Jacob Bender knew that missionary success does not depend on size and stature; his own was diminutive. But he trusted God's providence, which he well knew called at times for one's supreme sacrifice. He was large in the love of God and man, and this love carried him to the so-called 'dark continent' where the Gospel shed light on the human predicament and offered hope unparalleled.
Download or read book Alfred Saker Pioneer of the Cameroons written by Emily Martha Saker and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mill Hill Missionaries in Southern West Cameroon 1922 1972 written by Anthony Ndi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mill Hill Missionaries and the State in Southern Cameroons 1922 1962 written by Anthony Mbunwe Ndi and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cameroons West Africa written by Rev. T. Vincent Tymms and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For God s Sake written by Nicolai Baumert and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have made great strides towards more accessible and higher quality schooling and medical systems in recent years. Despite this, education and health care in Africa lag behind other developing regions and large inequalities in educational levels and health care access remain across countries, subnational regions, and gender. Cameroon, in west-central Africa, with its unique history of colonial rule by three European powers is no exception as it still struggles to provide citizens with stable and inclusive education and healthcare. A growing body of literature attributes Christian missionary expansion in former African colonies since the mid-19th century with having a transformative and primarily positive impact on public goods provision. Since schools and medical facilities proved to be an effective tool for proselytization, missionary societies in Cameroon were not only the main providers of formal education but were also crucial players in the initial establishment of institutionalized health care during the colonial era. This thesis examines the interdependencies, dynamics, and long-term implications of mission work in Cameroon since their arrival and expansion from the 19th century until today.??I create novel historical databases documenting the temporal and spatial extent of missionary expansion in Cameroon by drawing on newly collected and largely unexplored data from annual mission reports. I further link geocoded historical information on the scope of mission work to data on individual-level educational achievement and health care infrastructure in Cameroon today. Qualitative evidence, financial records, and staff censuses from missionary reports allow for a deeper understanding of the interdependencies of missionary work with the indigenous population during the colonial era.??I find that the spatial extent of formal schooling was influenced by several geographical and spatio-historical features as well as characteristics of the local indigenous societies. In doing so, I move beyond existing research that mostly relied on inaccurate and Eurocentric historical atlases and often insufficiently accounted for the determinants of missionary locations in assessing the long-term effect of mission work on contemporary outcomes. Further, I identify a persistent and positive impact of colonial-era missionary investments in education and health care on Cameroonians' schooling achievements, educational gender equality, and access to health care today. Potential mechanisms underlying this long-lasting impact are cultural shifts - set in motion by the work of missionaries - regarding the value of schooling and Western medicine, and the persistence of schooling and health care physical infrastructure. The magnitude of these effects differs by missionary denomination for educational outcomes, and between missionary societies and the colonial government for health care access.??Finally, I highlight the crucial role of Africans in the functioning of missionary work in Cameroon before World War I. Missions relied on the local acceptance of indigenous chiefs and depended predominantly on African personnel to facilitate the rapid and cost-efficient expansion of the missionary sphere of influence. While the financial contributions of indigenous Cameroonians to the mission funds were low (yet non-negligible) relative to donations from Europe and America during German colonial rule, Africans' willingness to accept Christianity and their demand for missionary services ultimately determined the success of missions in Cameroon.
Download or read book The Missionary Review of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of George Thomson written by John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Church Missionary Gleaner written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Missionary Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Missionary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
