`The daughter she will eat agousie in the world of the spirits' witchcraft confessions in missionised Onitsha, Nigeria.

From: Africa | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Bastian, Misty L. | Copyright information

BACKGROUND TO CONFESSION

By 1890 the Church Missionary Society (Anglican) mission in Onitsha--a town in what would soon become the Southern Nigerian Protectorate--was over twenty years old and in deep trouble. Staffed by a group of Sierra Leoneans, themselves the products of CMS education and mostly repatriated Yoruba (although the Rev. J. C. Taylor, the first missionary to the town, was of Igbo extraction), the mission had consistently failed to convince indigenes and r...

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