The "Native" Missionary, the African Novel, and In-Between From: Novel | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright Novel, Inc. Fall 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In black Africa, as in the rest of the ex-colonial world, the expansion of European colonial interests was accompanied by the spread of Christianity and Western letters. Important to this process are the contributions of missionaries who introduced Western churches, schools, and ideas to the African populations amongst whom they worked. Like all contexts of religious conversion, the embrace of Christianity by indigenous Africans inevitably comes with complications of cultural identity, epistemology, and political alignments. If the African religious conversion was to generate unprecedented ...

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