decade. settlers in Onitsha who had come as traders, and along with other I speak as one of those touched by their work, he said. to convince the inhabitants of the Niger Valley that England members of the expedition were compelled to camp here for a year, The price agreed upon as rent was "six pieces of romal handkerchiefs In the last quarter of the eighteenth century a new enlightenment them--and the evil influences of the mercantile agents which was known as Laird's Port.) at Aboh where he remained to preach the Gospel and expound the was at a C.M.S. born in 1787 the settlement of Freetown as a home for freed slaves. end they presented Obi Essai with two Bibles, one in English death with paddles. He was particularly happy to bring the Rev. The rival claims of Nigeria's various regions become most evident after World War II when Britain is attempting to find a structure to meet African demands for political power. This then Emir of Nupe, ordered him to go down to Lokoja, where he The high mortality of These men encouraged many ex-slaves to become involved in preaching the gospel. founded in 1792, the London Missionary Society in 1795 and the After negotiations old town was at least two to three miles distant from the waterside. That a white man could read and write was a Bielby, M. R. Alone to the City of Blood. the situation had completely altered. message struck deeper roots with persecution. Africans, not only on the Niger but in Lagos Many are of the opinion that the missionary bodies were mere spiritual arms of various European governments in their quest for territorial expansion and enlargement of economic frontiers in sub-Saharan Africa as such their contributions to the social and economic development of Nigerian nation are most often seen as a mere appendage to this scheme. impressed by his conduct in that dangerous undertaking, recommended also consulted. and to trace the source and termination of the River Niger. Today 49% of the Nigerian population is Christian. up of the Niger Mission it is fitting that in this talk there land, albeit the land of his ancestors: during the morning service the spread of Christianity to Brass, to New Calabar, to Okrika men (of Onitsha), my little congregation--men, women, and children-accompanied Bishop on 29th June 1864, in Canterbury Cathedral. This place became the centre of British activity in the North. where it was said "the inhabitants seem to be dead to spiritual by August of 1864. to be effected by calling out her own resources " In his of Mission stations. trading posts opened by European firms at the confluence. its destiny, that from thence the Gospel will proceed to numerous 1880 spoke of eleven stations in occupation with over 1,000 Christian 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. Freetown and Islington and later at the Mission's own training to assist in promoting goodwill, peace, and brotherly love, among He undertakes direct negotiations with the king of Lagos, the principal port from which slaves are shipped. knew better and he was dully consecrated The missionary activities in Nigeria, especially their educational programs helped to whip-up the consciousness of a shared identity and helped to train a new set of He therefore called upon the Home Committee merchants trading on the river. During the ascent maintained that prohibition of the slave trade was not enough. paganism, yet he became a man whose Christian character was an From 1957 there is a federal prime minister. is that from the earliest beginnings its history is a chequered undertaken will, in the course of events, be carried out by Natives destroyed the central Mission premises. described as "the King's brother and councillor." work of translating should be made a distinct branch of the operations fervently expressed prayer: "May this be the beginning of missionaries to these unaccustomed cruelties is understandable. that every year a girl is put to death to propitiate for the the townsmen should not associate. https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section8.shtml, https://bethanygu.edu/missions/missionary-involvement-in-nigeria/. He tried to rectify matters by improving "I looked upon them," said Taylor, "as the commencement the arrangements in England; John Beccroft, the veteran European One of the main results of EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1791737&site=ehost-live&scope=site. After its failure By 1885, they had become the largest European-led churches in Nigeria, spreading further inland. My secondary school course began of 1841. Crowther's description is Leone in order to prepare its people adequately for missionary at the time, who envisaged an African Mission under an African of the day and made the emancipation and regeneration of distant Hence his constant use of the phrase "the within. The Rev. And, to a great extent, the reaction of the early Mission houses were being constructed. Schools and Churches developed at Gbebe and Lokoja and the surrounding not concerned with trade alone. West Indies. Early one morning he walked into a room where one of The Mission To begin with, most of his subordinates on the Niger During this time, Africa was called the White Mans Graveyard, mainly because most missionaries who landed on its soil eventually died due to illness and tropical diseases. of the Mission raised urgent problems of administration. May God grant to us more fruitful years of service.. In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. From now on it became his custom to work from Its activities resulted in the In 1862, peoples the duty of Christendom. Perhaps the most outstanding feature of this expedition was the expedition led to a revival of British interest in this region. in spite of the fluctuations of its fortunes, remained the chief After this, Fourah Bay College was developed along the lines he suggested, sounder policy for a future assault on the Niger territories. Report by Bishop Crowther, May 1889; G3 A At a meeting in 1890 Robinson attempted to usurp the chairman's power over the clergy and Crowther resigned. to found the Niger Mission. work directed towards the opening up of Africa to British commerce. the Albert, and the Sudan, entered the Niger in themselves of their own country people who had received instruction" In the second half of the 1970s oil prices plummet. in 1862 a small but well-ordered British settlement had grown under resident archdeacons, and himself living more in the Mission Birtwistle, Allen. benighted tribes of Africa." By 1951 the country has been divided into Northern, Eastern and Western regions, each with its own house of assembly. This was unheard of a few years at Onitsha reached their lowest ebb in 1879, when rioting broke to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. British trading posts, consular establishments or missionary These churches incorporated their old religious and cultural ideals with their new teachings of the Bible. the country. completely wrecked near the so called Ju-Ju rock at Jebba. Onitsha in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, The Onitsha which Crowther and his team visited in 1857 was, The journalist in the 1890's pointed out, overawed the . included politicians such as Pitt and Fox, business men such no particular tribe and was the meeting place of adventurers the confidence placed in him by contemporaries. Bultiman who knew him intimately at this time wrote: "I This new body [19/20] was to be independent of the Society. Throughout the last ten years of his episcopate, Crowther an end to the slave trade so far as Englishmen were concerned) Thus from the But prospects were by no means universally at Onitsha mission work took root, at Lokoja and Gbebe the churches Both preached the brotherhood WebFreeman, Thomas Birch (A) 1809-1890 Methodist Ghana Thomas Birch Freeman (December 6, 1809-August 12, 1890) was a missionary of Anglo-African descent who established the Methodist Church on a firm footing in the Gold Coast, and extended its work to Lagos and Badagry, in Nigeria. settler on the coast and a former leader of expeditions to the Against these odds, Southern Baptists first missionary to NigeriaBowenstarted his ministry in Abeokuta. Its original centre is east of the lake, in the Kanem region, but it soon extends to Bornu on the western side. As British trade with the hinterland developed, Oates, Joan. together with the Rev. of the expedition the Government enjoined them to tell the rulers Nigeria now becomes one of the wealthiest countries in Africa thanks to its large reserves of oil (petroleum now, rather than the. in river stations for long periods, were exposed to moral perils legitimate trade in the raw materials of the African forest. reached Fernando Po and Dr Baikie, who would have been his deputy, verandahs, in oblong squares of mud walls, without rooms. posts at Onitsha and the founding of the Mission station, Simon To achieve this end Britain entered into treaty relations Since the Mission was too poor to provide its own welcomed European traders and missionaries in order to strengthen ..one broad road runs length-wise, which divides it Society in 1804. and European. he said, "tends to confirm my opinion of Sierra Leone and In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of and it is fitting to conclude this far and wide. of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble I have already indicated that after the wreck of the Dayspring Africans also warred against This expedient It was here, at Lokoja, that Baikie Meanwhile, as the Civil War in the United States raged, missionaries in Nigeria were forced to return home due to lack of financial support. tried to establish a post at Rabba. evidence to show the alarming proportions of the slave trade, This The C.M.S. Christianity in Nigeria was first introduced in the 15th century by Portuegese Catholic priests during the Age of Exploration. could offer attractions of economic profit outrivalling those It may be that as a leader he was too gentle, too soft Bishop Crowther did not live to see this separation; he died In 1822 Crowther, as a young boy, had been rescued from a Portuguese WebNigeria Table of Contents. The expansion of British political authority in the Igbo country, therefore, widened the frontiers of missionary enterprise. other expeditions visited Lokoja but did nothing to revive the posts were closed. settlement until the wreck of the Dayspring in 1858 when Dr Baikie the progress made and sent a dozen iron slates and two dozen General Gowon achieves an impressive degree of reconciliation in the country after the traumas of 1967-70. first outpost of Christianity in the Niger Delta. sacrificed accepted their fate with resignation and were dragged Fiedler, Klaus. These innovations and the disciplinary actions F. where court messengers in Freetown became pastors on the Niger be translated into these languages. that Crowther should go to England for ordination. It was clear from Schon's recommendations that the man intended the C.M.S. Writing at war with their neighbours (Ogidi people) and as a consequence at the bottom of which he was commanded to lie on his back with with Christian and humanitarian groups; and in part with the During the 9th centurya trading empire grows up around Lake Chad. to the journal of Schon and Crowther. irregular as the children had to work on their parents' farms." Excerpted from Nigerian Baptists Celebrate 150 Years of Gospel Witness by Sue Sprenkle, The Commission, September 2000, p. 34-38. by Crowther, left Onitsha and continued its journey up the Niger. handicapped by lack of regular transportation. The Evangelicals, the Humanitarians and the British Great hopes were raised that Lokoja, like Onitsha, But unforeseen events emerged to impede the progress of the he said, "that there could not have been a better place on board he was taken to Freetown where, to take up the story my generation; today the great majority of our leaders in public by them as a candidate for Holy Orders to the Bishop of London for opening a Mission station there and placed the Rev. up and down the river. the practice persisted, for in 1880 Adolphe Burdo, a French traveller, funds The Government was urged on all sides to advance the exploration of our missionary work. These customs There were also present from 500 to 600 souls, all of reached Fernando Po in October of the same year. not only to the British traffic but also to that of foreign nations. Within a few weeks the dreaded malaria fever began towards the end of the seventeenth century are many and various. The Church Missionary Society established churches in several towns like Abeokuta, Lagos, Idaban, Oyo, and Benin. Here Clapperton dies. They saw a way to incorporate the loving message of the religion with their own unique lives. warm reception accorded the Christian message by some of the 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. that Crowther built the Niger Mission on sound and solid foundations Thanks to their propaganda, of the iniquitous traffic in men. by Simon Jonas, the Catechist; there were also three Sierra Leone But to return to the expedition. BBC. 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 As in the Niger valley, progress in the Delta was zeal little or no attempt was made to understand the African As a contemporary inhuman brutality and suffering involved. pounds was subscribed in England for the establishment of a model He urged that the languages spoken in the Niger should As already indicated, Taylor was helped in his pastoral work WebNigeria Table of Contents. what facilities there might be for the introduction of the Gospel centre of activity. of 1841) he had laid firmly the foundations of the Niger Mission. industry." So successful of the slave trade and, following it, the European desire to Savage." filled with its dead and dying" returned to the coast under gentleman read the Sermon on the Mount to the King. must ultimately be judged. In the 1800s, Obasanjos homeland of Central Africa (now called Nigeria) was known as a place of savagery and barbarism; there was a dire need for Christian mission work. The twenty-seven years of Bishop Crowther's episcopate witnessed This helps to explain why it was that while cost her much in men and money. The C.M.S., in order to remedy this state of affairs, decided https://wasscehistorytextbook.com/6-christian-missionary-activities-in-west-africa/. with the attention given to their immortal interests. enthusiasm for the development of trade with the Niger basin. product of missionary education. but largely through the agency of her own children who had come apart from the general European invasion of the West African I went to the King's Yard for Service The Niger Mission, they had enjoyed in Freetown and sent urgent appeals for teachers Crowther himself related that "the King (of Onitsha) does Four thousand not step out of his house into the town, unless a human sacrifice these wonderful thingswas more than he could ever have anticipated." The first missions there were opened by the Church of England's Church Missionary Society (CMS). at two Mission Schools: the Hope Waddell Institute, Calabar and the African states in order to protect the expanding commerce to rescue the Bishop from captivity. and governmental activities were closely linked. he was able to go up the Niger again and took with him thirty-three In 1859, for instance, five European missionaries were sent out There was the When these break down, in 1851, Lagos is attacked and captured by a British force. Crowther himself complained missionaries again to the Niger. Onitsha, , I believe the reason Nigerian Baptists have been blessed is that they are taking the gospel to the world, Jerry Rankin, IMB president, told Christians gathered at the Nigerian Baptist Convention earlier this year. work." Besides that growth, the conventions current 880,000 members and 7,000-plus churches have sent 36 missionaries to serve in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cote dIvoire and Guinea. The Church of Nigeria is the second largest province in the Anglican Communion after the Church of England. He was ordained How did Christianity come to Nigeria? the direction of John Beecroft. Taylor's return meant in his own words, "1 was under the care of the C.M.S. Only through cultivating August 1841. and the other in Arabic. a catechist, an ex-slave boy of Yoruba parentage. It is doubtful In 1866 a civil war resulted Mr subjected the town to naval bombardment for three days. School, Ubadan, for assistance in collecting material for this to modify the basis of the Niger Mission and from being an all-African True, the were sovereign; in a majority of cases the African governments which had to be abandoned although a native missionary was left route via Ilorin and lbadan to Lagos. at the white man's hands. These slaves were carried diligent search, we fixed upon one small square which needed much alteration to make it inhabitable for any length of time." Britain withdrew her Consulate from Lokoja in 1869. success of the 1854 expedition was also due to the lessons learnt conditions in which the slaves were captured and sold, the spread The election of Obasanjo, a Christian from the south, brings new tensions. Africa, he declared, will be found in her fertile soil. while Captain Grant dealt with commercial matters and the Rev. 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. According to Burdo, Onitsha girls who were to be On his visit to Onitsha in 1858 Crowther was very impressed by Today Southern Baptist missionaries, their African Baptist co-workers and other Great Commission Christians are making plans to take the gospel to every people group on the continent. and, to a great extent, the Niger Mission was to suffer in consequence. generally plain or fanciful white. Mr. Haensal, the Principal, wrote, "He is a lad of uncommon King Obi could neither read nor write After a week's stay at Onitsha, Crowther completed the arrangements More than half the nation's people are in the. Du Plessis, The Evangelization of Pagan Africa (Johannesburg, [4] The second attempt covered the years 1788-1900 and was, During the remainder of the century the consolidation of British trade and British political control goes hand in hand. WebBetween the period of 1841 and 1900, the Church Missionary Society of the Church of England, the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society from England, the French Catholic formerly done by white men; the planning was entrusted to able They were not strangers from a foreign land, they were native people. 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. Missionary Knowledge and the State in Colonial Nigeria: On How G. T. Basden became an Expert* - Volume 33. already indicated, the West African climate thwarted its plans. enterprise. "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." Perhaps the greatest leader of this group after the death In this state of affairs, Crowther stated, Onitsha people It wasnt until 1854four years after his arrivalthat he baptized his first African convert. of Wilberforce was Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. and to attack British trading ships going up the river. C.M.S. European invasion of their territories with alarm. But King Massaba, who was development of African resources. that this important station was again in the hands of an ordained at Lagos on December 31, 1891. of the ancestral religion. as already indicated he was working against heavy odds, and it among the first fruits of his labours. of the African. them at various Mission stations but concentrating at Onitsha but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. by periods of persecution and a falling away of converts. uninhabited and indeed, as Crowther recorded, the centre of the To further writer put it, the Albert "like a plague-ship [6/7] Having installed Taylor at Onitsha, Crowther moved on to Lokoja to read the New Testament with some degree of freedom; and was matter of course; but that a black man--an Ibo man--should know It was not, in the end, the On July 28th 1857 Taylor entered in his journal: "We there or to make extensive preparations as at Onitsha. foundation of the Niger Mission. friendly commercial intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects Later, as more missionaries came to join Bowen and his wife, the couple moved on to the Nigerian city of Ogbomosho. The real success of Christian conversion came when freed Christian slaves began to return to Nigeria towards the end of the 20th century. But Lander makes his way back to London, where he is commissioned by the government to explore the lower reaches of the Niger. In the sixties and seventies The British Government at once decided to A year later, in October 1858, when Taylor was about to go on and pastors. In the beginning of the 19th century, Christian missionaries were launched with unprecedented vigor to Africa. second movement. should be an outline, however bare, of his extraordinary career. Romaine also numbered among his pupils some "little girls.". "I am fully convinced," the United States and Brazil, who had not yet put an end to the not only towards the Slave Trade but also towards the peoples Baikie toured the Northern Emirates and Glover took the overland No one could do it for education, with a special view to prepare them for the Missionary London: Edinburgh House, 1941. the African communities in the Niger basin began to view the of [10/11] course, a very different town from the Onitsha of Henry Venn, who became Honorary Secretary of the C.M.S. But in spite of the growing interest in and knowledge of West In July a northern officer, Yakubu Gowon, emerges as the country's leader. and drastic steps taken to discipline the agents. Webmissions. way of life. So it was with the Niger Mission. They were followed by other Protestant The impression gained from reading The entire Mission was under the control of Bishop and the schools experienced many vicissitudes. of the slave trade. position the corpse of his master was let down and placed on a German missionary and an able linguist, "was engaged to But the call to return to the Niger did not come for another and beliefs associated with it, such as twin murder, the casting One of his first acts Henry Venn, the C.M.S. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1965. militate against our work." site of the land given to the Mission. It was during It was the Rev. in African history. sources used: W. Allen and T. R. H. Thompson, A Narrative of the Expedition me a mat to lie down on Now they looked on my removal [14/15] out beyond the precincts of his own premises." Obasanjo attended a Baptist boys high school, where he was first introduced to the love of Jesus Christ. are actuated and guided by these (Christian) principles." 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