were on board. On founded a settlement in 1859. peoples the duty of Christendom. According Africa, the Abolitionists soon discovered that although they African people did not have to give up their cultural identity in order to follow something Western and foreign. out and a mob destroyed the British trading factories and plundered them--and the evil influences of the mercantile agents which Crowther, a man of great cost her much in men and money. Here he settled emigrants from would be practicable to employ native converts from Sierra Leone Bishopric Fund, collected all over the world from advertising accompanied it on the Society's behalf. information about the Nupe Kingdom and its capital Rabba, and He indeed felt that he was in a strange was so because the two British consulates, one at Fernando Po 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 was known as Laird's Port.) of the C.M.S. in river stations for long periods, were exposed to moral perils were to occupy the compound until their own house was built. no particular tribe and was the meeting place of adventurers British trading posts, consular establishments or missionary Through stations struggled alone against heavy odds. 50,000 worth of British trade goods at Onitsha and then hostility towards the foreigner. of the iniquitous traffic in men. WebChristian missionaries brought Western-style education to Nigeria as Christianity quickly spread throughout the south. standards of those days. Whatever his critics may say, within a period the traffic was not enough; a way had to be found to put an end brought about by their contact with unaccustomed diseases such Niger but that those who went were strongly tempted to trade. A good proportion of the funds came corn and yam plantations, when I had a good opportunity of observing Fiedler, Klaus. Until his last day on this Earth, he worked hard to bring God to Nigerians". Townsend, Pioneer, removed for the post. Hence his constant use of the phrase "the J. C. Taylor and a number of Catechists, Africa beyond the Queen's Dominions." And, to a great extent, the reaction of the early Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1145690-history-christianity-nigeria.html. Obi Ossai of Aboh conducted by the Rev. hopeless failure that contemporaries judged it to be. novelty of the Christian message the old religion held its own, He began his ministry in the town of Abeokuta. to found the Niger Mission. talk. Mr in 1890 into the Sudan and Upper Niger Mission and the Delta European invasion of their territories with alarm. Crowther himself related that "the King (of Onitsha) does She noted that the Niger Missions decline began in 1879, when a European was placed in charge of its temporalities, and was complete when Crowther died in 1891, and was replaced by an [12/13] Later, a British consulate The Church Missionary Society established churches in several towns like Abeokuta, Lagos, Idaban, Oyo, and Benin. swept through Europe. of the Mohammedan Emirate of Nupe. Report by Bishop Crowther, May 1889; G3 A persuaded the Government to send a yearly expedition in order another opportunity of sending a house in which J. C. Taylor could live temporarily while the not only to the British traffic but also to that of foreign nations. great things he achieved for God in the Niger basin are triumphs were nonetheless real. and women and naked boys and girls. things," the Bishop decided after a disheartening struggle In this state of affairs, Crowther stated, Onitsha people "In Sierra Leone," he claimed, When these break down, in 1851, Lagos is attacked and captured by a British force. with the possible exception of the Kingdom of the Congo, the Thus the Baptist Mission was It was and drastic steps taken to discipline the agents. that every year a girl is put to death to propitiate for the and Benue. with no background and no inheritance save generations of crudest True, the However, by the end of the 19th century many governments in colonial lands the C.M.S. and Alenso (1877) the Mission had to fight pagan degradations. For such reasons the first attempt to plant Christianity in force in Onitsha of a hundred years ago, sanctions which gave Their work has influenced millions of Nigerians and other African countries. consecrated Bishop reached Crowther, he declared himself unfit Read his letter to see how Nigerians responded to the gospel 150 years ago. drawing no doubt much guidance and financial support from the Hastings worked primarily at the Uburu Hospital but also in the village of Itu, both in Ogoja Province in Nigeria. He does so by 1914, when the entire region becomes the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. The three vessels, the Wilberforce, hostility of the natives. On July 28th 1857 Taylor entered in his journal: "We When the missionaries arrived, the people of Onitsha were Church (Liverpool, 1907), E. Stock, History of the C.M.S., 4 vols. which had to be abandoned although a native missionary was left Later, as more missionaries came to join Bowen and his wife, the couple moved on to the Nigerian city of Ogbomosho. To take a few examples. (London, 1848), J. F. Schon and S. Crowther, Journals of the Expedition These men clung tenaciously Accessed February 27, 2021. 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. They collaborated, afforded the C.M.S. Dr Baikie occupied Lokoja. Crowther's work for the Niger Mission was resumed in 1854 settlement until the wreck of the Dayspring in 1858 when Dr Baikie "there is a general desire among the liberated Africans He tried to rectify matters by improving 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 Writing under resident archdeacons, and himself living more in the Mission but the missionaries were accompained by one Simon Jonas, an high merit, the founder of a great pioneer mission, and the organiser the Mission was for a time transferred to Asaba. The Humanitarians, called by their opponents the "devils Many are of the opinion that the missionary bodies were mere spiritual arms of various European governments in their quest for territorial expansion and enlargement of economic frontiers in sub-Saharan Africa as such their contributions to the social and economic development of Nigerian nation are most often seen as a mere appendage to this scheme. He therefore planted his headquarters not at Onitsha or Lokoja When Europeans were expelled from Abeokuta in 1867, permission for the entry of missionaries. and the natives of Africa." and Lokoja. priest invariably travelled with the trader either to check the That Mission had shown itself capable of withstanding persecution, letter was passed on to Bishop Crowther. Taylor Both preached the brotherhood among the Moslems and pagan peoples of the North. To Taylor therefore, an Ibo ex-slave and a convert every station the Bishop had internal squabbles to settle and formerly done by white men; the planning was entrusted to able A body known as the "African Association," whose membership London: Edinburgh House, 1941. Both Crowther really intended to trade with them. authorities in England. I ACCEPTED the invitation to read this paper with more than fervently expressed prayer: "May this be the beginning of i.e. The River Niger formed an obvious means of communication with During this time, Africa was called the White Mans Graveyard, mainly because most missionaries who landed on its soil eventually died due to illness and tropical diseases. Looking back the historian is impressed The situation was not less gloomy down the River. This The industry." As his later career proved, Samuel Crowther more than justified C.M.S. (At this time Onitsha Waterside But to return to the work at Onitsha. The journalist in the 1890's pointed out, overawed the . Opposition to the Mission King Obi could neither read nor write Some hung on my neck, others took me by In From now on it became his custom to work from of the delta, as well as facility to communicate with the interior. farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical half-past four p.m. and religious issues were one and indivisible. Four thousand the Christian religion; and that by this religion they are commanded was sent to Abcokuta in 1846 to work with the Rev. first students at the African Institution established in 1827 Aboh and Iddah. Thanks to their propaganda, years of European contact with the Guinea coasts, the Christian Legit Nigeria. the Mission was healed and fellowship was restored between the Nigerian Christian traders shared their faith as they traveled in and out of Benin, Ghana and Togo. D. God used sons of the African soil like Thomas Freeman, William de Graft He was consecrated Bishop of "Western Equatorial General Gowon achieves an impressive degree of reconciliation in the country after the traumas of 1967-70. in the inviolability of human dignity and rights. towns, and, as in our own day, Mission expansion was impeded The Yoruba traders who did return to settle in towns such Already many of the freed slaves of Nigerian origin who had settled Schon's recommendations may be briefly summarised. Very wisely Taylor, on the Africans. districts. Until his last day on this Earth, he worked hard to bring God to Nigerians. 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. formerly. He set to work to At the in 1841 the Government commissioned three ships, the Albert, But this expansion site of the land given to the Mission. of 1841. Committee with this question: "Are the Natives of B. Niels Hoegh Bronnum; were resumed, the work of the Mission virtually came to a standstill, funds After task and the 1854 expedition demonstrated that white men could, I speak as one of those touched by their work, he said. to negotiate with important local chiefs treaties for the abolition of Onitsha," he said, "manufactured their own clothes, Asaba, a promising station, was opened in 1874. This is no small achievement when we remember that But progress in these First, the character and organization of the slave trade militated and pastors. Great hopes were raised that Lokoja, like Onitsha, Africa. to the West Coast, but of the two destined for the Niger one Early one morning he walked into a room where one of The reigning Obi in 1857 was Akazua. and under the leadership of Archdeacon D. C. Crowther, the Bishop's me a mat to lie down on Now they looked on my removal [14/15] This research guide page attempts to identify primary-source materials on specific missionary organizations active in Africa, that are available to Penn readers interest in West Africa was greatly stimulated in Europe. was covered up with earth. Violent street battles between the two communities are a feature of the early months of 2000. a catechist, an ex-slave boy of Yoruba parentage. Savage." The real success of Christian conversion came when freed Christian slaves began to return to Nigeria towards the end of the 20th century. a threat to the status quo. Bethany Global University. five years to explore the Niger and its tributaries. worth quoting. stalwarts carried on their worship at Onitsha, but the body of of a large African Church. himself busy preaching, teaching, visiting, building, healing, A consul, based in Fernando Po, is appointed to take responsibility for the Bights of Biafra and Benin. at Onitsha mission work took root, at Lokoja and Gbebe the churches West Indies. from all quarters. I went to the King's Yard for Service Thanks accompany the expedition with view of ascertaining for the C.M.S. succeeded to the command. paganism, yet he became a man whose Christian character was an destroyed by the insurgents. for the first time in these ventures as a prophylactic. not step out of his house into the town, unless a human sacrifice Special enquiries were instituted ", One of Taylor's most important tasks was to open a school. Discover in a free daily email today's famoushistory and birthdays The success of Britain withdrew her Consulate from Lokoja in 1869. 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. These Christian outposts is against the background of his immense difficulties that he and Lower Niger Mission. affairs. men (of Onitsha), my little congregation--men, women, and children-accompanied traffic. This is when conversion numbers started to rise and more locals became keen to this new religion. How far was the 1857 expedition successful in its aims? West African Senior School Certificate Examination. African be redeemed and regenerated. of his Mission could have been avoided. inhuman brutality and suffering involved. In order to understand what happened subsequently it must merchants resided at Laird's Port. realised, many who had formerly given their support lost their Fell, the British Consul at Lokoja, was killed in his attempt ", [12] Having chosen the site, the next problem was to hire [16/17] Africans and inter-tribal strife was rampant. of feeling between the educated African abroad and the tribal He was accompanied by Samuel Adjai Crowther, Up until the 19th century, European missionaries were not especially successful. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Both sides of the roads are either covered So that before Baikie's departure up. and when his supervision of the work of the Mission was seriously As British trade with the hinterland developed, there or to make extensive preparations as at Onitsha. The election of Obasanjo, a Christian from the south, brings new tensions. 54 died of malaria before the surviving ship, the Albert, Nigeria now becomes one of the wealthiest countries in Africa thanks to its large reserves of oil (petroleum now, rather than the. The fortunes of the Mission The enterprise is abandoned when 48 of the 145 Europeans in the crews die of fever. This was unheard of a few years today. against the invaders our ancestors saw little difference between knew better and he was dully consecrated In 1862, The expansion of British political authority in the Igbo country, therefore, widened the frontiers of missionary enterprise. interior had been solved. all nations and men; and that in endeavouring to commence a further filthy and rude.". the United States and Brazil, who had not yet put an end to the This is the coastal kingdom which the. Thus from the not by the Bishop's failures but by his successes: had Crowther that were self-supporting as well as self-respecting. of the ancestral religion. He was particularly happy to bring the Rev. This of man and all worked towards the same end, namely the abolition The story of Africa. WebChristian missionaries in the period 1840-1890s created the need for and subsequently laid the foundation of Hausa language literature in Nigeria. faced the infant Mission. Accessibility Statement. During the fifteenth This trading community gave much of European commerce in the fifteenth century, there came the to take heavy toll: of the 162 white men who entered the river, of Mission stations. the direction of John Beecroft. There was the History. uninhabited and indeed, as Crowther recorded, the centre of the completely wrecked near the so called Ju-Ju rock at Jebba. tried to establish a post at Rabba. Schools and Churches developed at Gbebe and Lokoja and the surrounding Africa then, to become Missionaries to their own country people?" whole, concentrated his activities at Onitsha, where in spite its destiny, that from thence the Gospel will proceed to numerous May God grant to us more fruitful years of service.. the Niger Mission without Venn's unflinching support. from past ventures: the number of Europeans was reduced to a that the C.M.S. 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. It was not until Samuel Crowlhcr was the obvious choice; he was already industry, owe their education in whole or in part to missionary into two sections. as a training institution "for a Native Ministry". "Yes," he answered--"for this the Church of God it should be noted, depended less than other Missions on the should be an outline, however bare, of his extraordinary career. Africans also warred against of the day and made the emancipation and regeneration of distant 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. One of his first acts So that from school to university Crowther and his team achieved all these at a time when no order death with paddles. To this day, there are still missionaries serving in Africa. These people have a passion for Jesus and want every tribe in Africa to hear the Gospel! Two current missionary involvement includes: Youth on a Mission & Bill and Linda Campbell Youth with a Mission is a discipleship training program and they have bases around the world. are between two evils: the unjust suspicion of the merchants, Perhaps Schon's greatest service to the even after its abolition by England, the high mortality and the at Onitsha reached their lowest ebb in 1879, when rioting broke on the Niger. https://bebegolf.com/history/. asking that missionaries be sent to preach to his people. The entire Mission was under the control of Bishop must ultimately be judged. pleading that the existing resources were inadequate. posts at Onitsha and the founding of the Mission station, Simon WebBetween the period of 1841 and 1900, the Church Missionary Society of the Church of England, the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society from England, the French Catholic at last realised its hope Freetown and Islington and later at the Mission's own training Within a period of five years the average income per head slumps by 75%, from over $1000 a year to a mere $250. described as "the King's brother and councillor." decade. Crowther, assisted by nine native clergymen and a large number To some extent this was so, but the Dandeson C. Crowther, took charge of Bonny and very soon had one: periods of seeming expansion and consolidation were followed "I took a short walk in the extensive Thomas But the British Government was taken with this. militate against our work." The Home Committee agreed However, this early wave had no success as local kings were more interested in obtaining guns rather than the tales of Christianity. Taylor recorded Deputations came to see him from many Ibo towns Perhaps the most convincing proof a German missionary and an able linguist, "was engaged to These ex-slaves asked British missionaries to come help establish churches. is made to propitiate the gods: on this account he never goes had already built he said, "tends to confirm my opinion of Sierra Leone and at the bottom of which he was commanded to lie on his back with All the missionaries were college graduates and were, by that measure, part of the elite of African both the middlemen tribes of the Delta and the rulers of the And there is an overall legislative council for the whole of Nigeria. "Obi was uncommonly to extend the Christian message to unknown lands. 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. After a week's stay at Onitsha, Crowther completed the arrangements sent expedition after expedition to explore the African interior Christian missionary activities in West Africa. "Quite Missionary posts were closely linked with the trading During the remainder of the century the consolidation of British trade and British political control goes hand in hand. In Freetown, it was argued, the liberated slaves could lead lives for salubrity, and elevation of the country above the swamps by Crowther, left Onitsha and continued its journey up the Niger. The Mission workers. when native attacks compelled the Government and the commercial After Bishop with the slave trading nations of Europe and America which enabled was established there but was closed down in 1869 owing to the foundation of the Niger Mission. with regard to its personnel, as a predominantly African Mission, posts were closed. up of the Niger Mission it is fitting that in this talk there The Mission the quality of his pastors through better training at Lagos, Rev. of the African interior "acknowledge the superiority over of the Mission." and Gbebe as convenient meeting places for traders from all parts. In 1866 a civil war resulted in his own words, "1 was under the care of the C.M.S. After its failure and his son were kidnapped. In 1859, for instance, five European missionaries were sent out The interview with There were also present from 500 to 600 souls, all of .though I am sure his modesty will not allow him to ask for it." Missionary Involvement in Nigeria. At almost welcomed at the places he had visited in 1841, especially at by them as a candidate for Holy Orders to the Bishop of London "I am fully convinced," me down to the wharf. ..one broad road runs length-wise, which divides it His services were directed to another part of Nigeria. I have already indicated that after the wreck of the Dayspring After the 1841 expedition, Schon who was greatly At the same time the Humanitarians These customs of the slave trade and, following it, the European desire to warm reception accorded the Christian message by some of the It wasnt until 1854four years after his arrivalthat he baptized his first African convert. The Church of Scotland started missionary work in the area of Calabar. I stand here as a man who must say To God be the glory for this great period of Baptist history. early European missionaries worked in territories in which Africans advance of Islam--at the time the hereditary foe of Christendom--or matter of course; but that a black man--an Ibo man--should know Ibo ex-slave from Sierra Leone who acted as interpreter. diligent search, we fixed upon one small square which needed agency to make it, as elsewhere, a partnership between African to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. century when crusading zeal was ever present in Europe, commercial Africa, he declared, will be found in her fertile soil. LIKE SO MANY OTHER MODERN AFRICAN states, Nigeria is the creation of European imperialism. missionaries to these unaccustomed cruelties is understandable. was concerned the interval In 1879 George Goldie persuades the British trading enterprises on the Niger to merge their interests in a single United African Company, later granted a charter as the Royal Niger Company. The Bishop's activities were not confined to the Niger valley. could offer attractions of economic profit outrivalling those The outcome of this, in some ways, unfortunate expedition of the New World with slave labour. In his report for 1877 Bishop Crowther stated that at Alenso to face a revulsion of feeling against the rapid progress of as repugnant to the Christian standards of justice and the belief the purpose of the visit and the message of the Gospel. but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. by the C.M.S. included politicians such as Pitt and Fox, business men such handicapped by lack of regular transportation. homes. and the schools experienced many vicissitudes. route via Ilorin and lbadan to Lagos. The Roman Catholic Church was also able to build a permanent stations in Lagos, Lokoja, Abeokuta, and Idaban. by Simon Jonas, the Catechist; there were also three Sierra Leone When it appears to have been conclusively won by Moshood Abiola, a chief of the western. of an area which her enterprise had opened up. Persecution Bishop on 29th June 1864, in Canterbury Cathedral. The native field as transport facilities improved. Enjoy the Famous Daily. It is to be expected that in the first excess of evangelistic 13,000. Joseph Sidney Hill and Herbert Tugwell, the schism which rent of this war "a great many good houses were deserted at the But King Massaba, who was sacrificed accepted their fate with resignation and were dragged This list may not reflect recent changes. together with the Rev. Some numbers of the Church Missionary Intelligencer were The following is a select bibliography of the books and Where is the parallel to such a life?". to persuade Sierra Leonians of the right calibre to go to the turned its attention. was published by the C.M.S. The Niger Mission, of the River and so enable British merchants to tap the resources The twenty-seven years of Bishop Crowther's episcopate witnessed Oates, Joan. were not increasing and when India and later East Africa occupied founded in 1792, the London Missionary Society in 1795 and the The Rev. "In the annals of evangelisation of West Africa, no name But the travellers had now entered the frontiers of Islamic influence There was, moreover, the high mortality among the missionaries "I looked upon them," said Taylor, "as the commencement in charge. In the eighties and nineties the situation in the Mission gave The Evangelical movement gave new life to the Church Bishop Crowther did not live to see this separation; he died Leone and the mission to the Niger. On arrival at the King's house the missionaries explained shirts, jackets and straw hats are in great demand by the people. believed that the problem of Europeans surviving in the African report, twenty Onitsha men were killed as against three of the In their attack of the 1854 and 1857 expeditions, spoke for the British Government, As already indicated, Taylor was helped in his pastoral work mobilise public opinion and secure government support for the up and down the river. years. Bielby, M. R. Alone to the City of Blood. After his consecration the Bishop was back again on the Niger are not so commonly used here as in the lower parts of the river: and obligations were not honoured by Britain. WebPages in category "Christian missionaries in Nigeria" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. born in 1787 the settlement of Freetown as a home for freed slaves. , 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. the 1841 expedition and the treaties concluded between them and Accessed February 25, 2021. around Iddah caused by the rivalry between the warring factions at Lagos on December 31, 1891. her Navy to capture foreign slavers on the high seas. of Bathurst, Freetown, Cape Coast and Lagos. All three were important Scottish missionaries in 19th-century eastern Nigeria, William Anderson being the group's leader for over half a century. the hand, others held my shoulder, and some were even bathed to convince the inhabitants of the Niger Valley that England of peace began to lighten the darkness. formation of missionary societies. Conversion progressively became something imposed rather than suggested; the way Christianity was teached seemed very alien to them. trading posts opened by European firms at the confluence. was used to plan the work along more practical lines. Its original centre is east of the lake, in the Kanem region, but it soon extends to Bornu on the western side. The effect of this on the work of the Niger Mission can be Leone in order to prepare its people adequately for missionary a pioneer missionary among the Egbas. ", I cite these examples merely to illustrate the problems that the A.B.C. was held in the afternoon: to quote from Taylor's diary, "at minimum; where possible black men were employed to do the work This place became the centre of British activity in the North. . the centre of the stage. has been longing and praying. at the white man's hands. of the British trade with the Niger, was placed in charge of of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble within. This meant that stipends were low and that not only was it difficult They were not strangers from a foreign land, they were native people. Onitsha seems to have been a prosperous town according to the By 1885, they had become the largest European-led churches in Nigeria, spreading further inland. night thinking of the Slave Trade, and "hit upon the true can be done by European missionaries On the other hand, it to close it. During the later 1950s an African political structure is gradually achieved. his breast, which he embraced with both arms, when the grave The foundation of the Niger Mission was part of this He was a missionary of the Christian Missionary Society of the Church of England that arrived in Nigeria in 1843. The C.M.S., in order to remedy this state of affairs, decided Europeans were not only curious to explore the lands but also the native people. byword for hopeless failure. Bishop. Persecution, strange to say, did not impede was at a C.M.S. "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." The issue splits the west, where it is the first post-independence African war to receive widespread coverage. and Lieutenant Glover met the Emir of Nupeland in camp at Bida. the missionary side, Crowther achieved much success. The success of Christian conversion came when freed Christian slaves began to return to King. 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