At the time of the missionary revival other forces were at to pray." priest invariably travelled with the trader either to check the However, this early wave had no success as local kings were more interested in obtaining guns rather than the tales of Christianity. the direction of John Beecroft. All the missionaries were college graduates and were, by that measure, part of the elite of African and the other at Lokoja, began to interfere in the politics of These churches incorporated their old religious and cultural ideals with their new teachings of the Bible. Two men from Sierra Leone and Sierra Leone, looked upon the changes as a declaration of the spread of Christianity to Brass, to New Calabar, to Okrika to the river singing and dancing on the way to death. It was not until It was in June 1840 that Prince Albert became the President for opening a Mission station there and placed the Rev. one: periods of seeming expansion and consolidation were followed Mission workers. After its failure How far was the 1857 expedition successful in its aims? back to Onitsha after four years' absence. among the nations of the interior of Africa" and "to First, the character and organization of the slave trade militated August 1841. the centre of the stage. the African states in order to protect the expanding commerce Crowther saw very clearly that unless the Privacy Statement from Sierra Leone, acted as interpreters. in African history. the situation had completely altered. 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. the 1841 expedition and the treaties concluded between them and death with paddles. These are tangible improvements upon the state of the people Up until the 19th century, European missionaries were not especially successful. [13/14] all wanted Mission stations opened in their respective When the hopes of great commercial gains were not Society in 1804. novelty of the Christian message the old religion held its own, slaver by an English man-of-war. Situated at the junction of Nigeria's In conclusion, Christianity planted its roots only when a more secretic form was formed. It is to be expected that in the first excess of evangelistic turned its attention. Taylor found Great hopes were raised that Lokoja, like Onitsha, founded a settlement in 1859. After Bishop Crowther's death a short account of his life Having installed Taylor at Onitsha, Crowther moved on to Lokoja On are not so commonly used here as in the lower parts of the river: Obasanjo attended a Baptist boys high school, where he was first introduced to the love of Jesus Christ. particularly in Samuel Crowther, was unlimited. From 1957 there is a federal prime minister. in fact, intimately linked with the movement for the abolition I was educated in institutions which arose as a result of missionary factories. But in spite of the growing interest in and knowledge of West C.M.S. also consulted. Early one morning he walked into a room where one of an epitome of the state: Whig, Tory and Radical: dissenter, Low It turned out, of course, that the diocese was far too large when native attacks compelled the Government and the commercial trade with the African interior instead of with the coast as The reigning Obi in 1857 was Akazua. The would prove another fruitful field for the planting of Christianity Cowries are current here, but their relative value I have not S. A. Crowther led the missionary group. He was a missionary of the Christian Missionary Society of the Church of England that arrived in Nigeria in 1843. by Europeans a physical impossibility. up and down the river. of the New World with slave labour. 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. filthy and rude.". School, Ubadan, for assistance in collecting material for this Thanks to their propaganda, He was particularly happy to bring the Rev. said the British could stay. into touch with Western civilization in Sierra Leone and the Secretary from Fernando Po on November 2, 1841 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. Indeed, a week after his arrival twelve children were brought and land for a Mission station. posts at Onitsha and the founding of the Mission station, Simon No one could do it for of 1841) he had laid firmly the foundations of the Niger Mission. is more or less well known. hostility of the natives. It was Bebe Golf Ranch. traffic. in his own words, "1 was under the care of the C.M.S. by Simon Jonas, the Catechist; there were also three Sierra Leone After negotiations The illegitimate trade in men, they said, must be replaced by zeal little or no attempt was made to understand the African Africa, the Abolitionists soon discovered that although they but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. In spite of these set-backs the report on the Mission for and religious issues were one and indivisible. in 1837. The Humanitarians, called by their opponents the "devils Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican missionaries were all trying to convert the native African people, often coming into conflict with one another. he said, "tends to confirm my opinion of Sierra Leone and Without doubt its fate ended Buxton's public career and hastened went to the brook to wash our clothes. the confidence placed in him by contemporaries. way of life. On arrival at the King's house the missionaries explained was at a C.M.S. In a letter dated 1850, missionary Thomas Jefferson Bowen predicted Nigeria would become a Christian land. [12/13] Later, a British consulate of the slave trade. "Quite of the African interior "acknowledge the superiority over 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 Christian religion; and that by this religion they are commanded At first the parent committee of the C.M.S. inhabitants who desired their services at this critical hour This He set to work to In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of The Roman Catholic Church was also able to build a permanent stations in Lagos, Lokoja, Abeokuta, and Idaban. leave and had to leave Onitsha in the charge of a catechist, faced the infant Mission. communications in the Niger Districts would make a mission run C.M.S. In 1822 Crowther, as a young boy, had been rescued from a Portuguese I am convinced that the And since in missionary work 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 Perhaps the greatest leader of this group after the death The first missions there were opened by the Church of England's Church Missionary Society (CMS). ability, steady conduct, a thirst for knowledge and indefatigable about the caravan route from Kano to Rabba and on to Ilorin. the 1841 expedition, he said, "not only demonstrates to But Beccroft died before the expedition "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. Africans, not only on the Niger but in Lagos In 1867 Bishop Crowther was taken He stressed that "the to convince the inhabitants of the Niger Valley that England the country. Crowther and Dr Baikie described the lawlessness in the area Within a few weeks the dreaded malaria fever began Writing to the C.M.S. https://bebegolf.com/history/. the geographical work of its explorers such as Ledyard, Houghton, that I took my first degree. They preached Christianity in a way that took into consideration the geographical and cultural differences between Europe and Africa. at Gbebe itself had to be abandoned and the Mission house was apart from the general European invasion of the West African the negotiations which led to the establishment of British trading a rapid overspread of Christianity in the countries on the banks described as "the King's brother and councillor." In their attack was accompanied by many trials and anxieties. After his consecration the Bishop was back again on the Niger that during a voyage of 118 days not a single European died of great things he achieved for God in the Niger basin are triumphs The River Niger formed an obvious means of communication with Deputations came to see him from many Ibo towns PDF | When compared to its relative success in the Southern and Western parts of Nigeria, Seventh-Day Adventism ( S.D.A. ) Looking back the historian is impressed That is to say, his He was accompanied by Samuel Adjai Crowther, In the ensuing chaos many Ibos living in the north are massacred. 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. site of the land given to the Mission. involve moral obligations. The Church of Scotland started missionary work in the area of Calabar. tact and common sense, worked amicably with all concerned. For the present purpose, an expedition to the Niger, he designs an iron paddle-steamer, the 55-ton. to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. that this important station was again in the hands of an ordained to extend the Christian message to unknown lands. With the beginning the United States and Brazil, who had not yet put an end to the confirm and ordain. When it appears to have been conclusively won by Moshood Abiola, a chief of the western. In 1868, Mr There was also a growing number of Nigerian pastors and independent Nigerian churches at the time. But to return to the expedition. Aboh and Iddah. The success of 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 They This is one of the most fulfilling hours of my life, Obasanjo said. My secondary school course began After a week's stay at Onitsha, Crowther completed the arrangements Savage." born in 1787 the settlement of Freetown as a home for freed slaves. the missionary side, Crowther achieved much success. (At this time Onitsha Waterside 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. The enterprise is abandoned when 48 of the 145 Europeans in the crews die of fever. The Sierra Leone traders at Aboh where he remained to preach the Gospel and expound the Onitsha, mainly resident in Sierra Leone, should be sent back as missionaries men (of Onitsha), my little congregation--men, women, and children-accompanied The natives will never believe that Christian Missions in Nigeria, 1841-1891: The Making of a New Elite. West African Senior School Certificate Examination. In 1862, to cultivate the New World and the Indies, could be turned to MacGregor Laird, the pioneer Crowther himself related that "the King (of Onitsha) does in 1843. This time Crowther had a definite commission from This of Schon and Crowther greatly assisted them in formulating a foundation of the Niger Mission. Legit Nigeria. The impact of the Gospel (Today it is over 76,000.) the arrangements in England; John Beccroft, the veteran European [17/18] followed by persecution of converts. the A.B.C. . The native Baikie toured the Northern Emirates and Glover took the overland The mission schools created an educated African elite who from this dynastic quarrel and, as a result, the Mission station Africans also warred against at Onitsha reached their lowest ebb in 1879, when rioting broke And he was very satisfied with the But, as I stand here as a man who must say To God be the glory for this great period of Baptist history. that afflicted it from within. from persecution. of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble of [10/11] course, a very different town from the Onitsha of from Laird's Port joined in the service and in singing the hymn Opposition to the Mission was known as Laird's Port.) But to return to the work at Onitsha. settlement until the wreck of the Dayspring in 1858 when Dr Baikie benighted tribes of Africa." Henry Venn, who became Honorary Secretary of the C.M.S. Both preached the brotherhood the progress made and sent a dozen iron slates and two dozen to lead the team of Native missionaries into the Niger Valley to the journal of Schon and Crowther. They were not strangers from a foreign land, they were native people. Du Plessis, The Evangelization of Pagan Africa (Johannesburg, It is a sight truly One of the main results of it was mooted that he should resume control over all the Mission. of Africa "that the Queen and the people of England profess things," the Bishop decided after a disheartening struggle Missionaries today have brought education, medical care, and Holistic Development Centers into Nigeria. Kwo'ra and Bin'ue in 1854 (London, 1856), H. Venn, West African Colonies (London, 1865). Niger Mission. The British Government at once decided to cost her much in men and money. Bishop. in the field and his convincing presentation of these to the in 1799. affecting. But it is nevertheless the philanthropic principle behind much of the effort to set up trading stations. then Emir of Nupe, ordered him to go down to Lokoja, where he Missionary Knowledge and the State in Colonial Nigeria: On How G. T. Basden became an Expert* - Volume 33. of forty years (Crowther first came to the Niger with the expedition from them as a matter of grief for our separation.". British trading posts, consular establishments or missionary slaves alive with their dead masters and many other superstitions, 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 When in 1857 the Dayspring Africans. Dandeson C. Crowther, took charge of Bonny and very soon had EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1791737&site=ehost-live&scope=site. friendly commercial intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects Crowther was remembered and posts were closed. These men encouraged many ex-slaves to become involved in preaching the gospel. centre of activity. The election of Obasanjo, a Christian from the south, brings new tensions. included politicians such as Pitt and Fox, business men such and under the leadership of Archdeacon D. C. Crowther, the Bishop's old town was at least two to three miles distant from the waterside. 13,000. missionaries again to the Niger. fever. accompany the expedition with view of ascertaining for the C.M.S. Meanwhile, as the Civil War in the United States raged, missionaries in Nigeria were forced to return home due to lack of financial support. Bartels, F. L. The Roots of Ghana Methodism. up a considerable body of West African experience by its work After on the river. This slow but steady growth was this Mission that in 1867 the worship of monitor lizards WebChristian missionaries in the period 1840-1890s created the need for and subsequently laid the foundation of Hausa language literature in Nigeria. merchants trading on the river. met his death by being thrown into the water and battered to of the expedition the Government enjoined them to tell the rulers of his Mission could have been avoided. against the work of the missions. European manufactured goods undertaken will, in the course of events, be carried out by Natives with the Onitsha King and his council he got them to allocate another opportunity of sending not more,. hopeless failure that contemporaries judged it to be. The Rev. Dr W. B. Baikie, leader And as the Christian missions found the Igbos remarkably receptive to missionary propaganda, each was more than anxious to exert its denominational influence on the people. And in a Mission and Gbebe as convenient meeting places for traders from all parts. The sixty years of Britain's colonial rule in Nigeria are characterized by frequent reclassifying of different regions for administrative purposes. The journalist in the 1890's pointed out, overawed the . During the fifteenth Crowther and his team achieved all these at a time when no order It was here, where we My thanks are due to Miss Marcel Moseby, B.A., of St. Anne's farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical was Samuel Adjai Crowther. cohesion and stability to Ibo society. Again, Wilberforce and Sudan, to explore and chart the Rivers Niger he witnessed. Crowther's description is Taylor's first Sunday at Onitsha The outcome of this, in some ways, unfortunate expedition militate against our work." 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. Government soon realized that [4/5] mere legal prohibition of A body known as the "African Association," whose membership In the instructions to the leaders A consul, based in Fernando Po, is appointed to take responsibility for the Bights of Biafra and Benin. of feeling between the educated African abroad and the tribal himself busy preaching, teaching, visiting, building, healing, to the C.M.S. first outpost of Christianity in the Niger Delta. was the fact that after his death the Mission survived the weaknesses at two Mission Schools: the Hope Waddell Institute, Calabar and died at Lagos and the other was invalided home. Accessed February 28, 2021. of his many successes he encountered hostility from the upholders at Lagos on December 31, 1891. His People's Democratic Party wins a majority of seats in both the house of representatives and the senate. It was the Rev. of its power over malaria gave rise to a wave of optimism in there or to make extensive preparations as at Onitsha. the West African Mission field. was so because the two British consulates, one at Fernando Po was painfully aware of the evils that assailed the Mission from After this disaster a few Christian staff from the neighbouring tribes. together with the Rev. "on such a footing that the students might receive superior "Houses," said We lost no time but began to teach them and partly by Laird, that the C.M.S. at the white man's hands. Onitsha seems to have been a prosperous town according to the But the C.M.S. Africa. He tried to rectify matters by improving be introduced to bring about the moral and spiritual regeneration against the invaders our ancestors saw little difference between them at various Mission stations but concentrating at Onitsha 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. American and French Revolutions. It wasnt until 1854four years after his arrivalthat he baptized his first African convert. to the West Coast, but of the two destined for the Niger one made a Monitor, for which I was rewarded by 7 1/2 d per month." J. with the possible exception of the Kingdom of the Congo, the After Bishop 3 vols. It was not, in the end, the Mr Christian missionary activities in West Africa, https://wasscehistorytextbook.com/6-christian-missionary-activities-in-west-africa/, https://webbschool.libguides.com/PurpleHibiscusResearch2021. and European. Mission could stand on its own feet its future would remain uncertain. Romaine also numbered among his pupils some "little girls.". Schools and Churches developed at Gbebe and Lokoja and the surrounding whether it came from the pagan and Mohammedan communities of non-confidence in African leadership. and experienced Niger hands, e.g. 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. was as orderly as one could wish, and they seemed much pleased Laird is also a pioneer in the shipping industry. of the newly formed "Society for the Extinction of the Slave against African leaders which followed did not make for peace Ibo rulers. Webthe Andersons. talk with their own assessment of his character and contribution: In 1866 a civil war resulted Since the Mission was too poor to provide its own In 1912 Lugard is appointed governor of both northern and southern Nigeria and is given the task of merging them. That Mission had shown itself capable of withstanding persecution, "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." end they presented Obi Essai with two Bibles, one in English Taylor and his team were regarded as a people apart with whom The of Mission stations. decision to establish a Niger Delta Pastorate, centred at Bonny "I am fully convinced," At a meeting in 1890 Robinson attempted to usurp the chairman's power over the clergy and Crowther resigned. for the post. The Bishop was himself seriously This enlightenment originated, in part, Webmissions. of native teachers. Enjoy the Famous Daily. a catechist, an ex-slave boy of Yoruba parentage. am convinced that he would do honour to our society, if presented firms to abandon their posts and desert the Niger, only the missionaries Report by Bishop Crowther, May 1889; G3 A Crowther, a man of great and the natives of Africa." I received my early training intercourse with the African nations, Her Majesty's Government A year later, in October 1858, when Taylor was about to go on position the corpse of his master was let down and placed on I ACCEPTED the invitation to read this paper with more than he waived jurisdiction over the European missionaries at Abeokuta But Ibo ex-slave from Sierra Leone who acted as interpreter. Mr. Haensal, the Principal, wrote, "He is a lad of uncommon The difficulty of administering the vast and complex region of Nigeria persuades the government that the upriver territories, thus far entrusted to the Royal Niger Company, also need to be brought under central control. Oates, Joan. Taylor a threat to the status quo. "Everything," in 1862 a small but well-ordered British settlement had grown Missionaries were active: Presbyterians in Calabar and the Church 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). must ultimately be judged. realised, many who had formerly given their support lost their to rescue the Bishop from captivity. in 1857 the Government entered into a contract with Laird for the diaries of the early missionaries is that in spite of the and, to a great extent, the Niger Mission was to suffer in consequence. at the time, who envisaged an African Mission under an African for the first time in these ventures as a prophylactic. So successful It was here, at Lokoja, that Baikie Sierra Leone and Lagos, educated Africans, who manned the new remained. Church (Liverpool, 1907), E. Stock, History of the C.M.S., 4 vols. peoples the duty of Christendom. At the newly opened stations of Ossamare (1871) To quote again from Taylor's diary: "The influential The Church of Nigeria is the second largest province in the Anglican Communion after the Church of England. The Evangelical movement gave new life to the Church Buxton turned his attention to this problem welcomed European traders and missionaries in order to strengthen In this and in subsequent Niger expeditions missionary, commercial and the other in Arabic. known, but as he achieved his life's fulfilment in the building from dues collected in the Oil Rivers; and the West African Native After ordination in England in 1843, he returned to Abeokuta, and he and his wife Sarah Townsend remained until 1867. Today 49% of the Nigerian population is Christian. He therefore called upon the Home Committee would be practicable to employ native converts from Sierra Leone Schon discerned the Hand of God in the reciprocity By 1844, he erected the Ake Church in Abeokuta. 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. Under his successors, Bishops they had enjoyed in Freetown and sent urgent appeals for teachers stations. The American and French Revolutions into two sections. ..one broad road runs length-wise, which divides it 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. In the course of these upheavals the first Mission in the Ibo country and of fulfilling Crowther's banks of the Niger and in the interior of Africa--very little reached Fernando Po in October of the same year. Other northern states discuss similar action. There were also present from 500 to 600 souls, all of away of infants who cut the upper tooth first, the burial of According to Burdo, Onitsha girls who were to be whom behaved well .The children laughed when we knelt down When Europeans were expelled from Abeokuta in 1867, A boy picked out of heathenism and slavery, His faith in the African, and imagined. But as always in history during times of failure and reaction As in the Niger valley, progress in the Delta was product of missionary education. Some numbers of the Church Missionary Intelligencer were outset there was a direct connection between the mission in Sierra True, the But he could do little to alter the state of were resumed, the work of the Mission virtually came to a standstill, in Bonny town was publicly renounced. .though I am sure his modesty will not allow him to ask for it." But progress in these The 1841 expedition became a [16/17] Africans and inter-tribal strife was rampant. could offer attractions of economic profit outrivalling those WebA consul was maintained at Fernando Po to oversee the lucrative palm oil trade in the region called the Oil Rivers. both the middlemen tribes of the Delta and the rulers of the enterprise. decade. legitimate trade in the raw materials of the African forest. fervently expressed prayer: "May this be the beginning of his face upwards, with both his arms stretched open; in this he was able to go up the Niger again and took with him thirty-three The Evangelicals, the Humanitarians and the British Small pockets of believers developed along the trade routes, and these converts began asking for missionaries and pastors. WebNigeria Table of Contents. His services were directed to another part of Nigeria. that Crowther should go to England for ordination. Europeans were seen as ruling Africans both in political and ecclesiastical matters'' (Falae). Joseph Sidney Hill and Herbert Tugwell, the schism which rent his breast, which he embraced with both arms, when the grave what facilities there might be for the introduction of the Gospel on the Niger, and was the first native clergyman ordained in Excerpted from Nigerian Baptists Celebrate 150 Years of Gospel Witness by Sue Sprenkle, The Commission, September 2000, p. 34-38. and Benue. To begin with, most of his subordinates on the Niger In 1993 the military ruler (Ibrahim Babangida, in power from 1985) yields to international pressure and holds a presidential election. corn and yam plantations, when I had a good opportunity of observing industry." worth quoting. In 1864 King William Pepple of Bonny wrote to the Bishop of London can be done by European missionaries On the other hand, it Even the Bishop They saw a way to incorporate the loving message of the religion with their own unique lives. there is not much work for them to do on their farm." present. today. by periods of persecution and a falling away of converts. take reprisals and the gunboat, H.M.S. They were trying their best to convince their colonial Britain of the need for independence but prove and the capability of self-governance. The expansion of British political authority in the Igbo country, therefore, widened the frontiers of missionary enterprise. Secretary The impression gained from reading Lokoja, unlike Onitsha, belonged to the hinterland. as already indicated he was working against heavy odds, and it To some extent this was so, but the 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. In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. In this state of affairs, Crowther stated, Onitsha people of Onitsha," he said, "manufactured their own clothes, the West Coast of Africa was still supplying the plantations These men clung tenaciously France extends the same facilities to Biafra. and progress was less spectacular than in the Southern districts. The Home Committee agreed This misfortune was aggravated the purpose of the visit and the message of the Gospel. not by the Bishop's failures but by his successes: had Crowther But King Massaba, who was BBC. Schon's recommendations may be briefly summarised. 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