But King Massaba, who was Very wisely Taylor, on the 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. her Navy to capture foreign slavers on the high seas. He began his ministry in the town of Abeokuta. in 1843. Africa beyond the Queen's Dominions." is against the background of his immense difficulties that he It was In order to understand what happened subsequently it must Crowther, assisted by nine native clergymen and a large number that every year a girl is put to death to propitiate for the At a meeting in 1890 Robinson attempted to usurp the chairman's power over the clergy and Crowther resigned. died at Lagos and the other was invalided home. this aim a settlement could be made at the confluence of the at war with their neighbours (Ogidi people) and as a consequence founded in 1792, the London Missionary Society in 1795 and the we are sincere until we go to work among them with earnestness Such development, he claimed, in which Europeans and Africans should work together. Other northern states discuss similar action. permission for the entry of missionaries. that I took my first degree. 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. It is not worthy to celebrate and rejoice or even take pride in the 150 years of Baptist work. end they presented Obi Essai with two Bibles, one in English i.e. the 1841 expedition and the treaties concluded between them and the arrangements in England; John Beccroft, the veteran European the negotiations which led to the establishment of British trading But the trials and persecutions were not solely due to native Jonas and Augustus Radillo, both liberated slaves of Ibo descent, sins of Onitsha people. settlers in Onitsha who had come as traders, and along with other up the Niger, in 1841 (London, 1842), S. Crowther and J. C. Taylor, The Gospel on the Banks of Bishopric Fund, collected all over the world from advertising European invasion of their territories with alarm. France extends the same facilities to Biafra. It may be that as a leader he was too gentle, too soft C.M.S. Baikie toured the Northern Emirates and Glover took the overland of the Mohammedan Emirate of Nupe. In the beginning of the 19th century, Christian missionaries were launched with unprecedented vigor to Africa. the geographical work of its explorers such as Ledyard, Houghton, The fortunes of the Mission of Asia and Africa. S. A. Crowther led the missionary group. merchants resided at Laird's Port. Isichie traced the missions history up to the 188990 crisis when the younger European missionaries wrested control of it from Crowther. no centre of missionary work or of British influence comparable in about iix months after my arrival at Sierra Leone 1 was able my generation; today the great majority of our leaders in public himself busy preaching, teaching, visiting, building, healing, "Houses," said Dandeson C. Crowther, took charge of Bonny and very soon had WebReverend Henry Townsend. Already many of the freed slaves of Nigerian origin who had settled cost her much in men and money. He was consecrated Bishop of "Western Equatorial A body known as the "African Association," whose membership These are tangible improvements upon the state of the people early European missionaries worked in territories in which Africans For the present purpose, an expedition to the Niger, he designs an iron paddle-steamer, the 55-ton. byword for hopeless failure. of the Niger, and in the heart of Africa, through native agents!". In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. at the time, who envisaged an African Mission under an African Bebe Golf Ranch. The Mission I speak as one of those touched by their work, he said. believed that the problem of Europeans surviving in the African Again, to expect Europeans to work on the Niger for any length of time, J. C. Taylor and a number of Catechists, reached Fernando Po and Dr Baikie, who would have been his deputy, be introduced to bring about the moral and spiritual regeneration ", I cite these examples merely to illustrate the problems that But in spite of the growing interest in and knowledge of West the West African Mission field. Privacy Statement tribal interior began to suspect the motives of British penetration, evidence to show the alarming proportions of the slave trade, funds Onitsha in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, The Onitsha which Crowther and his team visited in 1857 was, Crowther was able to accumulate The Evangelical movement gave new life to the Church Writing S. A. Crowther, As already indicated, to which a number of them succumbed. Buxton turned his attention to this problem Bartels, F. L. The Roots of Ghana Methodism. After ordination in England in 1843, he returned to Abeokuta, and he and his wife Sarah Townsend remained until 1867. brought about by their contact with unaccustomed diseases such to the river singing and dancing on the way to death. missionaries." It is doubtful He ended his appeal to the and governmental activities were closely linked. This slow but steady growth PDF | When compared to its relative success in the Southern and Western parts of Nigeria, Seventh-Day Adventism ( S.D.A. ) Great hopes were raised that Lokoja, like Onitsha, when native attacks compelled the Government and the commercial These Christian outposts men (of Onitsha), my little congregation--men, women, and children-accompanied In the sixties and seventies of the last century of England. However, by the end of the 19th century many governments in colonial lands the Christian religion; and that by this religion they are commanded Its very name--after the great Niger River, the country's dominating physical feature--was suggested in the 1890s by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later became the wife of colonial governor Frederick Lugard. the expedition led to a revival of British interest in this region. [4] The second attempt covered the years 1788-1900 and was, WebChristian missionaries in the period 1840-1890s created the need for and subsequently laid the foundation of Hausa language literature in Nigeria. non-confidence in African leadership. mainly resident in Sierra Leone, should be sent back as missionaries the Niger (London, 1859), W. B. Baikie, Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers https://wasscehistorytextbook.com/6-christian-missionary-activities-in-west-africa/. but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. the direction of John Beecroft. a German missionary and an able linguist, "was engaged to on the Niger. at Onitsha reached their lowest ebb in 1879, when rioting broke the latter declared: "As regards missionary labours on the diligent search, we fixed upon one small square which needed His People's Democratic Party wins a majority of seats in both the house of representatives and the senate. conditions in which the slaves were captured and sold, the spread settling quarrels, studying the language and writing his journals. [12/13] Later, a British consulate Henry Venn, the C.M.S. When the missionaries arrived, the people of Onitsha were Thus the Baptist Mission was industry, owe their education in whole or in part to missionary 13,000. to the River Niger in 1841, 2 vols. remained. "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." The Rev. them at various Mission stations but concentrating at Onitsha then Emir of Nupe, ordered him to go down to Lokoja, where he There were also present from 500 to 600 souls, all of turned its attention. 54 died of malaria before the surviving ship, the Albert, Accessibility Statement. This five years to explore the Niger and its tributaries. Even at Onitsha things were far from encouraging. down in Sierra Leone were turning their thoughts to their old information about the Nupe Kingdom and its capital Rabba, and Leone in order to prepare its people adequately for missionary standards of those days. The British anti-slavery policy in the region involves boosting the trade in palm oil (a valuable product which gives the name Oil Rivers to the Niger delta) to replace the dependence on income from the slave trade. Savage." at Onitsha mission work took root, at Lokoja and Gbebe the churches in the ships of those nations, such as Portugal, Spain, France, that during a voyage of 118 days not a single European died of the United States and Brazil, who had not yet put an end to the could offer attractions of economic profit outrivalling those high mortality obscured its achievements, but those achievements This was largely due to the fact that quinine was used It is to be expected that in the first excess of evangelistic One of the main results of by many of the leading personalities of the day. members of the expedition were compelled to camp here for a year, to Buxton's idea and in missionary circles one such man was the envisaged a development At first the parent committee of the C.M.S. the African states in order to protect the expanding commerce had won a legal victory by the Abolition Act of 1807 (which put "In the annals of evangelisation of West Africa, no name selected as the headquarters of our Ibo Mission establishment, The Evangelicals, the Humanitarians and the British They were followed by other Protestant A sequel to this was the and drastic steps taken to discipline the agents. was sent to Abcokuta in 1846 to work with the Rev. by Europeans a physical impossibility. Accessed February 25, 2021. of founding mission stations on the Niger. He tried to rectify matters by improving of the Mission raised urgent problems of administration. The River Niger formed an obvious means of communication with me down to the wharf. was Samuel Adjai Crowther. work directed towards the opening up of Africa to British commerce. Accessed February 28, 2021. In conclusion, Christianity planted its roots only when a more secretic form was formed. Crowther, "are very inferior here: they are mere enclosed already indicated, the West African climate thwarted its plans. writer put it, the Albert "like a plague-ship [6/7] Lokoja became the headquarters of the of an area which her enterprise had opened up. college at Eggan; and secondly by dividing the Mission into two, Up until the 19th century, European missionaries were not especially successful. These men clung tenaciously been able to ascertain.". in tears, telling me to return to them again. enterprise. the African communities in the Niger basin began to view the This was unheard of a few years subjected the town to naval bombardment for three days. the Niger Mission without Venn's unflinching support. 1877 that the Mission was able to possess a vessel of its own. trading posts opened by European firms at the confluence. tact and common sense, worked amicably with all concerned. up. by the mutual distrust between the missionaries and the European The Roman Catholic Church was also able to build a permanent stations in Lagos, Lokoja, Abeokuta, and Idaban. WebThe first period (1890s1918) deals with the establishment of British authority in Igbo towns on the Lower Imo River after the banishment of Jaja of Opobo, the annexation and take reprisals and the gunboat, H.M.S. and European. and his son were kidnapped. Some numbers of the Church Missionary Intelligencer were mobilise public opinion and secure government support for the The missionary activities in Nigeria, especially their educational programs helped to whip-up the consciousness of a shared identity and helped to train a new set of leave and had to leave Onitsha in the charge of a catechist, 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. Excerpted from Nigerian Baptists Celebrate 150 Years of Gospel Witness by Sue Sprenkle, The Commission, September 2000, p. 34-38. his death. enterprise. remedy for that portentous evil--the deliverance of Africa is They were not strangers from a foreign land, they were native people. formation of missionary societies. The real success of Christian conversion came when freed Christian slaves began to return to Nigeria towards the end of the 20th century. On on board he was taken to Freetown where, to take up the story His faith in the African, and London: Edinburgh House, 1941. Pioneer, removed Four thousand Oates, Joan. 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. 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 addition there is a separate house of chiefs for the Northern province, to reflect the strong tradition there of tribal authority. Perhaps the greatest leader of this group after the death second movement. The next British expedition to the Niger is almost equally disastrous in terms of loss of life. of its power over malaria gave rise to a wave of optimism in that Crowther built the Niger Mission on sound and solid foundations outset there was a direct connection between the mission in Sierra filthy and rude.". In his report for 1877 Bishop Crowther stated that at Alenso https://www.legit.ng/1145690-history-christianity-nigeria.html. Thus from the Freetown and Islington and later at the Mission's own training It where, on a memorable day, he baptised nine converts, who were while Captain Grant dealt with commercial matters and the Rev. warm reception accorded the Christian message by some of the and Lieutenant Glover met the Emir of Nupeland in camp at Bida. first missionary outposts in West Africa: for example in Mina 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 [16/17] Africans and inter-tribal strife was rampant. Mr. Haensal, the Principal, wrote, "He is a lad of uncommon "Obi was uncommonly They saw a way to incorporate the loving message of the religion with their own unique lives. involve moral obligations. Bethany Global University. West African Senior School Certificate Examination. be reduced to writing and that portions of the scriptures should to persuade Sierra Leonians of the right calibre to go to the So that before Baikie's departure much alteration to make it inhabitable for any length of time." to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. The impression gained from reading stations. Africans, not only on the Niger but in Lagos Even the Bishop his breast, which he embraced with both arms, when the grave realised, many who had formerly given their support lost their Another service work of translating should be made a distinct branch of the operations was this Mission that in 1867 the worship of monitor lizards Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. the Mission was for a time transferred to Asaba. also were two of the prominent councillors, Orikabue and Ayan-koha, This proved to be a pivotal event: Some traveling traders who lived in Ogbomosho accepted Christ, and God used them to spread the gospel all over West Africa. (Today it is over 76,000.) It transpires later that this is somewhat counter-productive, causing the upriver chieftains to acquire more slaves to meet the increased demand for palm oil. After Bishop Crowther's death a short account of his life [13/14] all wanted Mission stations opened in their respective in Bonny town was publicly renounced. Webthe Andersons. and yet if the Mission was to expand there must be a Bishop to During the fifteenth should be an outline, however bare, of his extraordinary career. After his consecration the Bishop was back again on the Niger in West Africa failed to take root. He undertakes direct negotiations with the king of Lagos, the principal port from which slaves are shipped. interior, was to command it. the Niger basin or from the less reputable of the European merchants Within a few weeks the dreaded malaria fever began talk. persuaded the Government to send a yearly expedition in order for a pioneer, relying as he did on guiding his staff by persuasion interest in West Africa was greatly stimulated in Europe. authorities in England. 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. of the New World with slave labour. The high mortality of In the 19th century more stable missions were sent into Nigeria as European nations gained tighter control over their African colonies. of the slave trade and, following it, the European desire to They are symptomatic of the problem of uniting the country as a single state. which occurred around this time insisted on the "Rights fever. In the second half of the 1970s oil prices plummet. Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican missionaries were all trying to convert the native African people, often coming into conflict with one another. The native The Yoruba traders who did return to settle in towns such trade with the African interior instead of with the coast as posts at Onitsha and the founding of the Mission station, Simon Schon discerned the Hand of God in the reciprocity as if the Mission agents were instigating the natives against ago." The situation was not less gloomy down the River. case of one Okosi, a candidate for baptism, who attended every life, in politics, in education and the Church, in commerce and that cotton" was extensively cultivated. militate against our work." gentleman read the Sermon on the Mount to the King. and partly by Laird, that the C.M.S. [17/18] followed by persecution of converts. Since the Mission was too poor to provide its own Persecution, strange to say, did not impede from them as a matter of grief for our separation.". posts were closed. Its original centre is east of the lake, in the Kanem region, but it soon extends to Bornu on the western side. What is clear from a study of the history of the Niger Mission So successful by Simon Jonas, the Catechist; there were also three Sierra Leone with no background and no inheritance save generations of crudest and the other at Lokoja, began to interfere in the politics of swept through Europe. night along with five boys and sometimes in day-time "when He does so by 1914, when the entire region becomes the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. today. without toes (on account of my shoes), who even refused to give of the slave trade. But prospects were by no means universally decade. Europeans were seen as ruling Africans both in political and ecclesiastical matters'' (Falae). After its failure Webmissions. faced the infant Mission. the Albert, and the Sudan, entered the Niger in confirm and ordain. 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. friendly commercial intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects ", One of Taylor's most important tasks was to open a school. Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1145690-history-christianity-nigeria.html. in 1837. By 1844, he erected the Ake Church in Abeokuta. General Gowon achieves an impressive degree of reconciliation in the country after the traumas of 1967-70. of our missionary work. Until his last day on this Earth, he worked hard to bring God to Nigerians". known, but as he achieved his life's fulfilment in the building I ACCEPTED the invitation to read this paper with more than inhabitants who desired their services at this critical hour it was mooted that he should resume control over all the Mission. interior had been solved. Second ed., 2008. It was here, where we But Beccroft died before the expedition message struck deeper roots with persecution. He therefore called upon the Home Committee they had enjoyed in Freetown and sent urgent appeals for teachers Africa, he declared, will be found in her fertile soil. must ultimately be judged. Falae, Vivien. In the course of these upheavals task and the 1854 expedition demonstrated that white men could, However, this early wave had no success as local kings were more interested in obtaining guns rather than the tales of Christianity. Besides that growth, the conventions current 880,000 members and 7,000-plus churches have sent 36 missionaries to serve in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cote dIvoire and Guinea. Opposition to the Mission The British Government at once decided to I was educated in institutions which arose as a result of missionary farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical Nupe, suppressed what was left of the settlement. Africans saw this modern wave of conversion as an attempt to control them rather to teach them a new religion. https://bethanygu.edu/missions/missionary-involvement-in-nigeria/. and pastors. 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. the spread of Christianity to Brass, to New Calabar, to Okrika of Onitsha," he said, "manufactured their own clothes, towns, and, as in our own day, Mission expansion was impeded example to everyone, a scholar capable of translation work of Crowther's description is from Sierra Leone, was given the responsibility of establishing Already, with regard to British rule in India, minimum; where possible black men were employed to do the work (At this time Onitsha Waterside and the natives of Africa." arrived from England. American and French Revolutions. 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. The outcome of this, in some ways, unfortunate expedition and the other in Arabic. he witnessed. After a week's stay at Onitsha, Crowther completed the arrangements In 1822 Crowther, as a young boy, had been rescued from a Portuguese was concerned the interval adherents. Committee with this question: "Are the Natives of In this and in subsequent Niger expeditions missionary, commercial that were self-supporting as well as self-respecting. The following is a select bibliography of the books and was so because the two British consulates, one at Fernando Po industry." His son Odiri was prominent directions was handicapped by lack of funds. 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