Abstract
Abstract Using examples from Anglican missions in the Great Lakes region of Africa this article explores the roles of African Protestant missionaries in the modern era. It argues that many committed African Christians understood themselves to be missionaries and examines the nature of their missionary activity. Those who called themselves missionaries evangelised outside their own ethnic group. They were engaged in regional and transnational developments. The article attends to local and regional historical processes to show how African missionary activities were infused with transnational notions of belonging to a world religion.
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African missionaries are active today throughout the African continent and the world
The article attends to local and regional historical processes to show how African missionary activities were infused with transnational notions of belonging to a world religion
This is partly because of the prevalence of attention to the history of Western missionaries in Africa, and partly because the missionary engagement of Africans in the modern history of Protestant and Catholic churches has often been understood as local evangelism
Summary
African missionaries are active today throughout the African continent and the world. Early Baganda missionaries to Toro were less interested in re-creating the familiar and more concerned with preaching a universal Christian message that was intended to transform the individual and of society and grant access to the global church They worked hard at communicating in terms that could be understood by the peoples they visited, inculturation of the Gospel was not their primary goal. Written by Ham Mukasa, a chief and prominent member of the Mengo Church Council, in the shadow of the martyrdom of the early Baganda Christians and the civil war, it expresses an expectation that following Christ will bring eventual peace as well as difficulty The commentary connects their death with martyrs of the patristic age, and the potential suffering of all Christians who spread the Gospel for peace and unity.[28] Hearers were called to transform themselves and society. Whilst individuals might feel the stress of change, new technologies – like literacy, cotton, bicycles, and bio-medicine – were deployed as demonstrations of the power of the Almighty and of the wider community of which they could be a part
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