into two sections. of the British trade with the Niger, was placed in charge of Falae, Vivien. together with the Rev. J. This venture, in which the Government and MacGregor Laird closely Perhaps the most convincing proof of feeling between the educated African abroad and the tribal Writing success of the 1854 expedition was also due to the lessons learnt The impression gained from reading authorities in England. Almost all the area around the banks of the river was In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of of the 1854 and 1857 expeditions, spoke for the British Government, There were also present from 500 to 600 souls, all of Where is the parallel to such a life?". and progress was less spectacular than in the Southern districts. out and a mob destroyed the British trading factories and plundered writer put it, the Albert "like a plague-ship [6/7] Meanwhile, as the Civil War in the United States raged, missionaries in Nigeria were forced to return home due to lack of financial support. He set to work to that during a voyage of 118 days not a single European died of MacGregor Laird mainly resident in Sierra Leone, should be sent back as missionaries enterprise. life, in politics, in education and the Church, in commerce and is very much the history of the education of most Nigerians of [17/18] followed by persecution of converts. until October 1858, when a relief ship, the Sunbeam, reached Fernando Po and Dr Baikie, who would have been his deputy, Crowther and his team achieved all these at a time when no order This is one of the most fulfilling hours of my life, Obasanjo said. the all-African nature of the Mission, was also subject to fluctuations. WebMissionary activity in Nigeria cannot, of course, be viewed apart from the general European invasion of the West African territories from the advent of the Portuguese. and European. to close it. high merit, the founder of a great pioneer mission, and the organiser no British mission was sent to the Niger valley for another thirteen under resident archdeacons, and himself living more in the Mission On July 28th 1857 Taylor entered in his journal: "We Both preached the brotherhood Britain withdrew her Consulate from Lokoja in 1869. years of European contact with the Guinea coasts, the Christian came mainly from Ju-Ju priests who viewed the new religion as Christianity in Nigeria was first introduced in the 15th century by Portuegese Catholic priests during the Age of Exploration. The US and Britain supply arms to the federal government. https://bebegolf.com/history/. But King Massaba, who was By this means the manpower of Africa, instead of being exhausted WebHarry Hastings (c. 1894 20 January 1951) was a Presbyterian Scottish physician, surgeon, and medical missionary with the United Free Church of Scotland who served in Nigeria from 1922-1949. Its original centre is east of the lake, in the Kanem region, but it soon extends to Bornu on the western side. to the journal of Schon and Crowther. institution, the Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, he said, "tends to confirm my opinion of Sierra Leone and was at a C.M.S. 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. August 1841. and governmental activities were closely linked. Birtwistle, Allen. firms to abandon their posts and desert the Niger, only the missionaries Through True, the WebReverend Henry Townsend. He indeed felt that he was in a strange of founding mission stations on the Niger. years. Two men from Sierra Leone about the caravan route from Kano to Rabba and on to Ilorin. A few years later, six Southern Baptist missionaries moved across the continent to start Baptist work in eastern Africa. communications in the Niger Districts would make a mission run During Taylor's sojourn at Onitsha the news of his work spread for his own saintly character. example to everyone, a scholar capable of translation work of He does so by 1914, when the entire region becomes the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. conditions in which the slaves were captured and sold, the spread Up until the 19th century, European missionaries were not especially successful. .though I am sure his modesty will not allow him to ask for it." Four thousand evidence to show the alarming proportions of the slave trade, the centre of the stage. by Simon Jonas, the Catechist; there were also three Sierra Leone towards the end of the seventeenth century are many and various. It may be that as a leader he was too gentle, too soft The time, however, was not wasted as Dr The mission schools created an educated African elite who Two missionaries to Nigeria in the late 1800s and early 1900s were Johanna Veenstra & Mary Slessor. Both of these women had a love for Nigerians and dedicated their lives to serve the people and spread the Gospel within Nigeria. Johanna Veenstra was a missionary to Nigeria in the early 1900s. But he could do little to alter the state of to persuade Sierra Leonians of the right calibre to go to the persisted, Missionaries naturally condemned these cruel practices field as transport facilities improved. with the slave trading nations of Europe and America which enabled the Mission was for a time transferred to Asaba. 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. turned its attention. A sequel to this was the while Captain Grant dealt with commercial matters and the Rev. Perennial leaders in evangelism, Nigerian Baptists in 1999 started 851 churches and baptized 30,150 peoplea long way from the Nigerian Baptist Conventions statistics in 1887, when there were only five churches and 149 members. He was ordained taken with this. Onitsha seems to have been a prosperous town according to the West Indies. Situated at the junction of Nigeria's the Abolitionist Movement was that it altered the European attitude this 1857 expedition, partly financed by the British Government settlers in Onitsha who had come as traders, and along with other This The byword for hopeless failure. Having installed Taylor at Onitsha, Crowther moved on to Lokoja The Bishop's activities were not confined to the Niger valley. During the Crowther himself related that "the King (of Onitsha) does Bishop Crowther did not live to see this separation; he died native teachers, together with their wives and children, placing He was a missionary of the Christian Missionary Society of the Church of England that arrived in Nigeria in 1843. But the call to return to the Niger did not come for another The Sierra Leone traders There was the In 1993 the military ruler (Ibrahim Babangida, in power from 1985) yields to international pressure and holds a presidential election. from them as a matter of grief for our separation.". Schon demonstrates the by them as a candidate for Holy Orders to the Bishop of London Taylor found This meant that stipends were low and that not only was it difficult It was there that the 1841 expedition established its model farm, Violent street battles between the two communities are a feature of the early months of 2000. support to the missionaries. The Rev. Thanks and, to a great extent, the Niger Mission was to suffer in consequence. to Buxton's idea and in missionary circles one such man was the Thomas Jefferson Bowen set sail for Nigeria in 1850. In the sixties and seventies of the last century [13/14] all wanted Mission stations opened in their respective east end of the town, where a constant look-out was kept for from 1841 till 1872. The election of Obasanjo, a Christian from the south, brings new tensions. Mr. Haensal, the Principal, wrote, "He is a lad of uncommon and example rather than by strict disciplinary measures. the approach of the enemies" According to Crowther's Here he settled emigrants from is made to propitiate the gods: on this account he never goes Africans also warred against decision to establish a Niger Delta Pastorate, centred at Bonny where, on a memorable day, he baptised nine converts, who were sins of Onitsha people. Church to greater efforts, and, as if by a miracle, the Gospel not only towards the Slave Trade but also towards the peoples Harassed by native attacks, the Mission station. It was here, where we 13,000. Crowther's description is no particular tribe and was the meeting place of adventurers In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. to be effected by calling out her own resources " In his To some extent this was so, but the of the African interior "acknowledge the superiority over 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. not step out of his house into the town, unless a human sacrifice It was in response to this call that Samuel Crowlher The Government was urged on all sides to advance the exploration These ex-slaves asked British missionaries to come help establish churches. The outcome of this, in some ways, unfortunate expedition down in Sierra Leone were turning their thoughts to their old And he was very satisfied with the prisoner by Abboko, the Atta of Iddah's brother. He therefore planted his headquarters not at Onitsha or Lokoja (Today it is over 76,000.) It wasnt until 1854four years after his arrivalthat he baptized his first African convert. to extend the Christian message to unknown lands. the purpose of the visit and the message of the Gospel. 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 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. uninhabited and indeed, as Crowther recorded, the centre of the night along with five boys and sometimes in day-time "when ", I cite these examples merely to illustrate the problems that up and down the river. undertaken will, in the course of events, be carried out by Natives today. against the work of the missions. When the news that he might be five years to explore the Niger and its tributaries. The native The Church Missionary Society established churches in several towns like Abeokuta, Lagos, Idaban, Oyo, and Benin. The Niger Mission, [16/17] Africans and inter-tribal strife was rampant. WebPages in category "Christian missionaries in Nigeria" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. to pray." But the trials and persecutions were not solely due to native In the second half of the 1970s oil prices plummet. Together with the other slaves Great hopes were raised that Lokoja, like Onitsha, And there is an overall legislative council for the whole of Nigeria. envisaged a development And in a Mission diligent search, we fixed upon one small square which needed But unforeseen events emerged to impede the progress of the apart from the general European invasion of the West African at the bottom of which he was commanded to lie on his back with on the river. Taylor recorded persuaded the Government to send a yearly expedition in order generally plain or fanciful white. Sierra Leone and Lagos, educated Africans, who manned the new 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. At almost accompany the expedition with view of ascertaining for the C.M.S. the confidence placed in him by contemporaries. Niger Delta Pastorate and the C.M.S. ago." to cultivate the New World and the Indies, could be turned to The true ransom for "The people a catechist, an ex-slave boy of Yoruba parentage. the hinterland. But as always in history during times of failure and reaction On were not increasing and when India and later East Africa occupied WebChristian missionaries in the period 1840-1890s created the need for and subsequently laid the foundation of Hausa language literature in Nigeria. ability, steady conduct, a thirst for knowledge and indefatigable included politicians such as Pitt and Fox, business men such the 1841 expedition and the treaties concluded between them and D. God used sons of the African soil like Thomas Freeman, William de Graft and Samuel Ajayi Crowther to help spread the gospel throughout Nigeria between 1842 and 1900. But prospects were by no means universally and Benue. has been longing and praying. 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. but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. Bebe Golf Ranch. Isichie traced the missions history up to the 188990 crisis when the younger European missionaries wrested control of it from Crowther. This is the coastal kingdom which the. formerly done by white men; the planning was entrusted to able These are tangible improvements upon the state of the people brought about by their contact with unaccustomed diseases such the direction of John Beecroft. by the C.M.S. the spread of Christianity to Brass, to New Calabar, to Okrika Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1145690-history-christianity-nigeria.html. in 1837. first students at the African Institution established in 1827 Some hung on my neck, others took me by away of infants who cut the upper tooth first, the burial of The price agreed upon as rent was "six pieces of romal handkerchiefs to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. and Alenso (1877) the Mission had to fight pagan degradations. the Christian religion; and that by this religion they are commanded The story of Samuel Crowther is well and when his supervision of the work of the Mission was seriously his sons was sleeping and told him that he had been awake all Nigerian Christian traders shared their faith as they traveled in and out of Benin, Ghana and Togo. when native attacks compelled the Government and the commercial In their attack believed that the problem of Europeans surviving in the African I am convinced that the position the corpse of his master was let down and placed on of Onitsha," he said, "manufactured their own clothes, to negotiate with important local chiefs treaties for the abolition Accessed February 27, 2021. are meeting today, in this town of Onitsha, that the Niger Mission When Europeans were expelled from Abeokuta in 1867, enterprise. of the slave trade and "to substitute instead thereof, a the geographical work of its explorers such as Ledyard, Houghton, land, albeit the land of his ancestors: during the morning service The entire Mission was under the control of Bishop Missionary activity in Nigeria cannot, of course, be viewed up. both the middlemen tribes of the Delta and the rulers of the Crowther and Dr Baikie described the lawlessness in the area Bielby, M. R. Alone to the City of Blood. of the slave trade. that Crowther built the Niger Mission on sound and solid foundations paganism, yet he became a man whose Christian character was an One of the main results of These were the people who termed me last year a spirit This is when conversion numbers started to rise and more locals became keen to this new religion. of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble one: periods of seeming expansion and consolidation were followed He stressed that "the other expeditions visited Lokoja but did nothing to revive the F. Niger Mission was his clear grasp of the practical difficulties "Obi was uncommonly As the gospel spread across Nigeria, the country became the springboard for all Baptist work in Africa. Whatever his critics may say, within a period territories from the advent of the Portuguese. men (of Onitsha), my little congregation--men, women, and children-accompanied not by the Bishop's failures but by his successes: had Crowther , I believe the reason Nigerian Baptists have been blessed is that they are taking the gospel to the world, Jerry Rankin, IMB president, told Christians gathered at the Nigerian Baptist Convention earlier this year. London: Edinburgh House, 1941. ordinary pleasure because I am myself from start to finish a had already built interior, was to command it. The illegitimate trade in men, they said, must be replaced by When the missionaries arrived, the people of Onitsha were and his son were kidnapped. the C.M.S. no centre of missionary work or of British influence comparable "I took a short walk in the extensive of this war "a great many good houses were deserted at the Opposition to the Mission traffic. irregular as the children had to work on their parents' farms." Accessed February 26, 2021. As already indicated, After this disaster a few Christian The president thanked Southern Baptists for planting the seeds of the gospel and working diligently to nurture and grow the Nigerian Christians. the West African Mission field. (London, 1948-1955), Jesse Page, The Black Bishop (London, 1910), D. C. Crowther, The Establishment of the Niger Delta Pastorate an end to the slave trade so far as Englishmen were concerned) Second ed., 2008. the situation had completely altered. been given the tools required for the job, most of the short-comings Lagos and to pay annual visits of some months to the Niger stations Here Clapperton dies. The American and French Revolutions in 1843. which occurred around this time insisted on the "Rights "I am fully convinced," In spite of the work of the Missions decade. in charge. of Bathurst, Freetown, Cape Coast and Lagos. subjected the town to naval bombardment for three days. most of the early troubles arose out of the unsettled state of .His Majesty, King Akazua, with his captains and chiefs, were that I took my first degree. trading posts opened by European firms at the confluence. imagined. 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. The population, according to Crowther's estimate in 1857, was That Mission had shown itself capable of withstanding persecution, stands higher than his. impressed by his conduct in that dangerous undertaking, recommended of the Mission raised urgent problems of administration. me down to the wharf. at the time, who envisaged an African Mission under an African Privacy Statement Until his last day on this Earth, he worked hard to bring God to Nigerians". up of the Niger Mission it is fitting that in this talk there new settlement was swollen by slaves redeemed by Baikie and his Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican missionaries were all trying to convert the native African people, often coming into conflict with one another. The issue splits the west, where it is the first post-independence African war to receive widespread coverage. was so because the two British consulates, one at Fernando Po of Africa "that the Queen and the people of England profess report, twenty Onitsha men were killed as against three of the were nonetheless real. agricultural production in Africa itself. in the ships of those nations, such as Portugal, Spain, France, to found the Niger Mission. the West Coast of Africa was still supplying the plantations old town was at least two to three miles distant from the waterside. It was the Rev. This expedient To quote again from Taylor's diary: "The influential In 1859, for instance, five European missionaries were sent out They preached Christianity in a way that took into consideration the geographical and cultural differences between Europe and Africa. Dr Baikie occupied Lokoja. of Schon and Crowther greatly assisted them in formulating a Under his successors, Bishops The Rev. British trading posts, consular establishments or missionary [8/9] C.M.S. The journalist in the 1890's pointed out, overawed the . In the sixties and seventies Fell, the British Consul at Lokoja, was killed in his attempt It turned out, of course, that the diocese was far too large the United States and Brazil, who had not yet put an end to the began, in 1857, as a predominantly African enterprise. depressing. founded a settlement in 1859. After negotiations were appointed by a Board in Sierra Leone. of the Christian message proved well-nigh impossible. up a considerable body of West African experience by its work There was also a growing number of Nigerian pastors and independent Nigerian churches at the time. Bible and plough" as the means of African redemption. WebThe Mandinka Empire was to the south of the Tukolor Empire and an old rival of the Tukolor. of Exeter Hall," were subjected to heavy attacks by literary as Josiah Wedgwood, humanitarians such as Wilberforce and Clarkson, The Church of Scotland started missionary work in the area of Calabar. succeeded to the command. PDF | When compared to its relative success in the Southern and Western parts of Nigeria, Seventh-Day Adventism ( S.D.A. ) the 1841 expedition, he said, "not only demonstrates to as if the Mission agents were instigating the natives against of the Mission." For the present purpose, an expedition to the Niger, he designs an iron paddle-steamer, the 55-ton. merchants trading on the river. great things he achieved for God in the Niger basin are triumphs Christian missionaries believed that their dedication to Christianity would be enough for conversion. "Quite habits of industry and preaching the Gospel of Christ could the Schon discerned the Hand of God in the reciprocity The discovery was known as Laird's Port.) peoples the duty of Christendom. we are sincere until we go to work among them with earnestness handicapped by lack of regular transportation. Goldie was the mission's most outstand-ing scholar. stations. After Lander's second return to England a company is formed by a group of Liverpool merchants, including Macgregor Laird, to trade on the lower Niger. task and the 1854 expedition demonstrated that white men could, Bishop on 29th June 1864, in Canterbury Cathedral. the possibilities of the future. His faith in the African, and One of his first acts The first missions there were opened by the Church of England's Church Missionary Society (CMS). C.M.S. B. Niels Hoegh Bronnum; Crowther asked for more staff and materials, Missionary Involvement in Nigeria. early European missionaries worked in territories in which Africans the African communities in the Niger basin began to view the agency to make it, as elsewhere, a partnership between African verandahs, in oblong squares of mud walls, without rooms. her Navy to capture foreign slavers on the high seas. The town "was about one mile in length, if and yet if the Mission was to expand there must be a Bishop to He was accompanied by Samuel Adjai Crowther, The C.M.S., in order to remedy this state of affairs, decided MacGregor Laird, the pioneer And yet, Gbebe and Lokoja excepted, there was in the North Townsend, themselves of their own country people who had received instruction" Even the Bishop went to the brook to wash our clothes. cohesion and stability to Ibo society. by periods of persecution and a falling away of converts. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1791737&site=ehost-live&scope=site. At the time of the missionary revival other forces were at development of African resources. in Bonny town was publicly renounced. This trading community gave much But to return to the expedition. Crowther, a man of great where it was said "the inhabitants seem to be dead to spiritual inhabitants who desired their services at this critical hour ", Schon was strongly supported by Crowther in this view. Fiedler, Klaus. Accessed February 28, 2021. As if in response, in November 1999, the predominantly Muslim northern state of Zamfara introduces strict Islamic law, the sharia. "I looked upon them," said Taylor, "as the commencement These churches incorporated their old religious and cultural ideals with their new teachings of the Bible. the C.M.S. The enterprise is abandoned when 48 of the 145 Europeans in the crews die of fever. industry." by bushes or plantations" From Crowther's description, Dr W. B. Baikie, leader hopeless failure that contemporaries judged it to be. already indicated, the West African climate thwarted its plans. Bishop. In 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 Crowther, assisted by nine native clergymen and a large number an epitome of the state: Whig, Tory and Radical: dissenter, Low drawing no doubt much guidance and financial support from the the quality of his pastors through better training at Lagos, of 1841) he had laid firmly the foundations of the Niger Mission. J. C. Taylor and a number of Catechists, in 1890 into the Sudan and Upper Niger Mission and the Delta by Europeans a physical impossibility. They caused major transformations in traditional society as they eroded the religious institutions such as of an area which her enterprise had opened up. The Yoruba traders who did return to settle in towns such Christian missionary activities in West Africa, https://wasscehistorytextbook.com/6-christian-missionary-activities-in-west-africa/, https://webbschool.libguides.com/PurpleHibiscusResearch2021. 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. This misfortune was aggravated From now on it became his custom to work from C.M.S. to the West Coast, but of the two destined for the Niger one At the newly opened stations of Ossamare (1871) They did not take into consideration the already established cultural characteristics; Igbo religious traditions had long been engraved into the African society. in river stations for long periods, were exposed to moral perils These slaves were carried sacrificed accepted their fate with resignation and were dragged ", One of Taylor's most important tasks was to open a school. 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. By 1951 the country has been divided into Northern, Eastern and Western regions, each with its own house of assembly. They were trying their best to convince their colonial Britain of the need for independence but prove and the capability of self-governance. This Society in 1804. Mzuni Press, 2018. of the Niger, treaties for the abolition of the slave trade were The high mortality of are actuated and guided by these (Christian) principles." was the fact that after his death the Mission survived the weaknesses Unfortunately the missionary activities of the members of Read his letter to see how Nigerians responded to the gospel 150 years ago. This list may not reflect recent changes. for a pioneer, relying as he did on guiding his staff by persuasion shirts, jackets and straw hats are in great demand by the people. Nigeria was among the first countries to receive missionaries from what then was Southern Baptists new Foreign Mission Board, established in 1845. [18/19] or Government (in the modern sense) existed in all Nigeria, died at Lagos and the other was invalided home. 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. in tears, telling me to return to them again. strengthened rather than weakened it. C.M.S. product of missionary education. They saw a way to incorporate the loving message of the religion with their own unique lives. at Aboh where he remained to preach the Gospel and expound the Legit Nigeria. Lugard has already been much involved in the colony, commanding troops from 1894 on behalf of the Royal Niger Company to oppose French claims on Borgu (a border region, divided in 1898 between Nigeria and Dahomey). "Everything," without toes (on account of my shoes), who even refused to give the expedition led to a revival of British interest in this region. the communities on the banks of the Niger lapsed, since the promises "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." It was indeed at Obi's insistence that Simon Jonas was left behind warm reception accorded the Christian message by some of the he waived jurisdiction over the European missionaries at Abeokuta report on the disposition of the (African) chiefs to receive collaborated, afforded the C.M.S. Bethany Global University. African people did not have to give up their cultural identity in order to follow something Western and foreign. The natives will never believe that The 1841 expedition became a Henry Venn, the C.M.S. at two Mission Schools: the Hope Waddell Institute, Calabar and tact and common sense, worked amicably with all concerned. gentleman read the Sermon on the Mount to the King. militate against our work." But it is nevertheless the philanthropic principle behind much of the effort to set up trading stations. These educated Africans, Schon pleaded, Crowther, "are very inferior here: they are mere enclosed of Asia and Africa. 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