Abstract
Professor Chengetai Zvobgo will be remembered as a conscientious and hardworking scholar of history, who devoted himself to scrupulous research in archives to understand the social development of Africans in Zimbabwe in response to the western impact. He used the Christianmissionary penetration of Zimbabwe at the beginning of the 20th Century, starting with the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, under the tutelage of the redoubtable Professor George Shepperson of Edinburgh University, as the launch pad of his lifetime intellectual pursuit. That journeysoon broadened to cover all the missionary organisations that laboured in Zimbabwe and also embraced all their three ministries of teaching,healing as well as evangelisation.
Highlights
Professor Chengetai Zvobgo will be remembered as a conscientious and hardworking scholar of history, who devoted himself to scrupulous research in archives to understand the social development of Africans in Zimbabwe in response to the western impact
Professor Zvobgo shows that the primary objective of the missionaries was to win African souls for Christ and to expand the Kingdom of God into the country
Western education and medical science were the twin tools the missionaries employed to demolish what they believed to be the superstitious basis of heathenism in order to prepare the mind for the Christian faith
Summary
Professor Chengetai Zvobgo will be remembered as a conscientious and hardworking scholar of history, who devoted himself to scrupulous research in archives to understand the social development of Africans in Zimbabwe in response to the western impact. Http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch © Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY)
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