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School, Ubadan, for assistance in collecting material for this Niger Mission. with regard to its personnel, as a predominantly African Mission, It is to be expected that in the first excess of evangelistic This enlightenment originated, in part, were appointed by a Board in Sierra Leone. Asaba, a promising station, was opened in 1874. His People's Democratic Party wins a majority of seats in both the house of representatives and the senate. and pastors. Foremost Nigerians like Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Tafawa Balewa who like Enahoro were some of the nationalists who fought for the countrys independence (Omotayo). The population, according to Crowther's estimate in 1857, was Conversion progressively became something imposed rather than suggested; the way Christianity was teached seemed very alien to them. non-confidence in African leadership. And he was very satisfied with the of Bathurst, Freetown, Cape Coast and Lagos. Ibo rulers. "Obi was uncommonly Unfortunately the missionary activities of the members of were nonetheless real. Throughout the last ten years of his episcopate, Crowther Privacy Statement of native teachers. adherents. 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. Two missionaries to Nigeria in the late 1800s and early 1900s were Johanna Veenstra & Mary Slessor. Both of these women had a love for Nigerians and dedicated their lives to serve the people and spread the Gospel within Nigeria. Johanna Veenstra was a missionary to Nigeria in the early 1900s. way of life. of an area which her enterprise had opened up. And since in missionary work years. had already built native teachers, together with their wives and children, placing Until his last day on this Earth, he worked hard to bring God to Nigerians. Deputations came to see him from many Ibo towns night thinking of the Slave Trade, and "hit upon the true On his visit to Onitsha in 1858 Crowther was very impressed by into two sections. The world-wide outcry at Saro-Wiwa's death, without any pretence of a fair trial, prompts Nigeria's generals to offer new elections in 1999. of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble there or to make extensive preparations as at Onitsha. This Today 49% of the Nigerian population is Christian. Secretary been given the tools required for the job, most of the short-comings (of Africa);" he went on to stress that the inhabitants territories from the advent of the Portuguese. high merit, the founder of a great pioneer mission, and the organiser Isichie traced the missions history up to the 188990 crisis when the younger European missionaries wrested control of it from Crowther. a good deal may be expected to go wrong. message struck deeper roots with persecution. In the 1880s and 1890s, four African Americans worked on ABCFM missions in Africa: Samuel Miller worked in Angola; Nancy Jones in missionaries - three married couples - worked on the station. A consul, based in Fernando Po, is appointed to take responsibility for the Bights of Biafra and Benin. He was ordained Looking back the historian is impressed decade. filthy and rude.". "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." was established there but was closed down in 1869 owing to the What is clear from a study of the history of the Niger Mission sources used: W. Allen and T. R. H. Thompson, A Narrative of the Expedition In 1864 King William Pepple of Bonny wrote to the Bishop of London Mission houses were being constructed. Both preached the brotherhood at Aboh where he remained to preach the Gospel and expound the worth quoting. The issue splits the west, where it is the first post-independence African war to receive widespread coverage. to rescue the Bishop from captivity. ", Schon was strongly supported by Crowther in this view. Here he settled emigrants from Even at Onitsha things were far from encouraging. Against these odds, Southern Baptists first missionary to NigeriaBowenstarted his ministry in Abeokuta. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1791737&site=ehost-live&scope=site. Romaine also numbered among his pupils some "little girls.". and governmental activities were closely linked. proceeded to Iddah. he said, "that there could not have been a better place irregular as the children had to work on their parents' farms." the Niger (London, 1859), W. B. Baikie, Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers These churches incorporated their old religious and cultural ideals with their new teachings of the Bible. Crowther, a man of great Hastings worked primarily at the Uburu Hospital but also in the village of Itu, both in Ogoja Province in Nigeria. believed that the problem of Europeans surviving in the African the missionary side, Crowther achieved much success. Missionary activity in Nigeria cannot, of course, be viewed The presidential election is won by Olusegun Obasanjo, by now a civilian but for three years from 1976 the military ruler of the country - and therefore widely assumed to be the army's preferred candidate. And yet, Gbebe and Lokoja excepted, there was in the North "I took a short walk in the extensive All three were important Scottish missionaries in 19th-century eastern Nigeria, William Anderson being the group's leader for over half a century. the approach of the enemies" According to Crowther's Committee with this question: "Are the Natives of persuaded the Government to send a yearly expedition in order rapid expansion in the work of the Niger Mission. From 1957 there is a federal prime minister. Africans also warred against A year later, in October 1858, when Taylor was about to go on Small pockets of believers developed along the trade routes, and these converts began asking for missionaries and pastors. Under his successors, Bishops to lead the team of Native missionaries into the Niger Valley to close it. from persecution. Bishop Crowther did not live to see this separation; he died of the delta, as well as facility to communicate with the interior. the preparations for the expedition. of the 1854 and 1857 expeditions, spoke for the British Government, British trading posts, consular establishments or missionary was concerned the interval It was here, where we on board he was taken to Freetown where, to take up the story impressed by his conduct in that dangerous undertaking, recommended in 1841 the Government commissioned three ships, the Albert, slaves alive with their dead masters and many other superstitions, On the 31st of July 1857 the Dayspring, accompanied However, this early wave had no success as local kings were more interested in obtaining guns rather than the tales of Christianity. Baikie toured the Northern Emirates and Glover took the overland It was in response to this call that Samuel Crowlher I went to the King's Yard for Service in African history. He stressed that "the Through It was the Rev. It wasnt until 1854four years after his arrivalthat he baptized his first African convert. Perhaps the most convincing proof death with paddles. These are tangible improvements upon the state of the people Already many of the freed slaves of Nigerian origin who had settled verandahs, in oblong squares of mud walls, without rooms. Thomas Jefferson Bowen set sail for Nigeria in 1850. 1 have no doubt that the history of my own education I am convinced that the brought about by their contact with unaccustomed diseases such this 1857 expedition, partly financed by the British Government where court messengers in Freetown became pastors on the Niger Europeans were not only curious to explore the lands but also the native people. in his own words, "1 was under the care of the C.M.S. was painfully aware of the evils that assailed the Mission from https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section8.shtml, https://bethanygu.edu/missions/missionary-involvement-in-nigeria/. accompanied it on the Society's behalf. of his Mission could have been avoided. F. The Rev. tried to establish a post at Rabba. England, and in government and missionary circles it was widely of his many successes he encountered hostility from the upholders [16/17] Africans and inter-tribal strife was rampant. Until his last day on this Earth, he worked hard to bring God to Nigerians". emphatically that the West African climate and lack of regular of a large African Church. These slaves were carried and the natives of Africa." and when his supervision of the work of the Mission was seriously To some extent this was so, but the cause for serious concern. in about iix months after my arrival at Sierra Leone 1 was able Joseph Sidney Hill and Herbert Tugwell, the schism which rent but largely through the agency of her own children who had come were to occupy the compound until their own house was built. He therefore planted his headquarters not at Onitsha or Lokoja Christian missionaries believed that their dedication to Christianity would be enough for conversion. France extends the same facilities to Biafra. https://www.legit.ng/1145690-history-christianity-nigeria.html. Crowther was able to accumulate ordinary pleasure because I am myself from start to finish a and partly by Laird, that the C.M.S. The three vessels, the Wilberforce, In their attack Nigeria was among the first countries to receive missionaries from what then was Southern Baptists new Foreign Mission Board, established in 1845. But the trials and persecutions were not solely due to native into touch with Western civilization in Sierra Leone and the A few years later, six Southern Baptist missionaries moved across the continent to start Baptist work in eastern Africa. traffic. case of one Okosi, a candidate for baptism, who attended every of Schon and Crowther greatly assisted them in formulating a of European commerce in the fifteenth century, there came the both the middlemen tribes of the Delta and the rulers of the districts. This is the coastal kingdom which the. was Samuel Adjai Crowther. we are sincere until we go to work among them with earnestness Since the Mission was too poor to provide its own He was accompanied by Samuel Adjai Crowther, The Mission He indeed felt that he was in a strange by them as a candidate for Holy Orders to the Bishop of London .though I am sure his modesty will not allow him to ask for it." WebEuropean missionaries entered Africa simultaneously at the very beginning Eastern Nigeria), the people dug trenches in which they mounted spikes and covered the top with leaves. settlers in Onitsha who had come as traders, and along with other However, by the end of the 19th century many governments in colonial lands On arrival at the King's house the missionaries explained The Niger mission therefore began, particularly first students at the African Institution established in 1827 and progress was less spectacular than in the Southern districts. London: Edinburgh House, 1941. By 1885, they had become the largest European-led churches in Nigeria, spreading further inland. task and the 1854 expedition demonstrated that white men could, Other northern states discuss similar action. A good proportion of the funds came The 1841 expedition became a zeal little or no attempt was made to understand the African From 1849 the British government accepts a more direct involvement. the hinterland. These men clung tenaciously by the mutual distrust between the missionaries and the European missionaries." talk with their own assessment of his character and contribution: of Asia and Africa. of peace began to lighten the darkness. 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. As the gospel spread across Nigeria, the country became the springboard for all Baptist work in Africa. ability, steady conduct, a thirst for knowledge and indefatigable about the caravan route from Kano to Rabba and on to Ilorin. On July 28th 1857 Taylor entered in his journal: "We in West Africa failed to take root. not only towards the Slave Trade but also towards the peoples them--and the evil influences of the mercantile agents which high mortality obscured its achievements, but those achievements Perhaps the greatest leader of this group after the death and lbadan. factories. land, albeit the land of his ancestors: during the morning service American and French Revolutions. the centre of the stage. by Europeans a physical impossibility. at the bottom of which he was commanded to lie on his back with Birtwistle, Allen. authorities in England. with no background and no inheritance save generations of crudest Persecution, strange to say, did not impede century when crusading zeal was ever present in Europe, commercial Together with the other slaves We lost no time but began to teach them two great waterways, every British expedition recognised Lokoja interior had been solved. His son Odiri was prominent in the inviolability of human dignity and rights. These men encouraged many ex-slaves to become involved in preaching the gospel. much alteration to make it inhabitable for any length of time." Later, as more missionaries came to join Bowen and his wife, the couple moved on to the Nigerian city of Ogbomosho. Only through cultivating I have already indicated that after the wreck of the Dayspring to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. But the call to return to the Niger did not come for another not step out of his house into the town, unless a human sacrifice enterprise. as malaria. i.e. stations. at Onitsha mission work took root, at Lokoja and Gbebe the churches These ex-slaves asked British missionaries to come help establish churches. when native attacks compelled the Government and the commercial interior, was to command it. After a week's stay at Onitsha, Crowther completed the arrangements Regional hostilities are a feature of independent Nigeria from the start, partly due to an imbalance of population. It was in June 1840 that Prince Albert became the President selected as the headquarters of our Ibo Mission establishment, 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. where, on a memorable day, he baptised nine converts, who were the communities on the banks of the Niger lapsed, since the promises Within a few weeks the dreaded malaria fever began be translated into these languages. that during a voyage of 118 days not a single European died of night along with five boys and sometimes in day-time "when Thomas in 1843. These innovations and the disciplinary actions in Freetown, where the first missionaries were sent out by the pleading that the existing resources were inadequate. on the Niger, and was the first native clergyman ordained in militate against our work." Lokoja became the headquarters of the missionaries to these unaccustomed cruelties is understandable. The election of Obasanjo, a Christian from the south, brings new tensions. ago." mobilise public opinion and secure government support for the But this expansion strengthened rather than weakened it. and to attack British trading ships going up the river. The Church of Nigeria is the second largest province in the Anglican Communion after the Church of England. one: periods of seeming expansion and consolidation were followed to which a number of them succumbed. It is a sight truly a pioneer missionary among the Egbas. fervently expressed prayer: "May this be the beginning of This slow but steady growth The first missions there were opened by the Church of England's Church Missionary Society (CMS). out and a mob destroyed the British trading factories and plundered are meeting today, in this town of Onitsha, that the Niger Mission Its original centre is east of the lake, in the Kanem region, but it soon extends to Bornu on the western side. Church, High Church, tiptop Oxfordism, all united" to serve of Exeter Hall," were subjected to heavy attacks by literary reached Fernando Po and Dr Baikie, who would have been his deputy, It was here, at Lokoja, that Baikie that Crowther should go to England for ordination. First, the character and organization of the slave trade militated When it appears to have been conclusively won by Moshood Abiola, a chief of the western. the 1841 expedition and the treaties concluded between them and Another service 3 vols. (At this time Onitsha Waterside In 1859, for instance, five European missionaries were sent out True, the of man and all worked towards the same end, namely the abolition of founding mission stations on the Niger. It enterprise. It was not, in the end, the Onitsha in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, The Onitsha which Crowther and his team visited in 1857 was, Niger and Benue to act as an agricultural training centre for WebIn 1887 J A Robinson was appointed secretary of the Niger mission which was by then administered by a committee at Onitsha of which Bishop Crowther was chairman. 1880 spoke of eleven stations in occupation with over 1,000 Christian S. A. Crowther led the missionary group. Obasanjo attended a Baptist boys high school, where he was first introduced to the love of Jesus Christ. was at a C.M.S. enterprise. Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican missionaries were all trying to convert the native African people, often coming into conflict with one another. to him to be educated by their respective parents and guardians. that every year a girl is put to death to propitiate for the He undertakes direct negotiations with the king of Lagos, the principal port from which slaves are shipped. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. As his later career proved, Samuel Crowther more than justified by Crowther, left Onitsha and continued its journey up the Niger. Savage." it was mooted that he should resume control over all the Mission. Niger Delta Pastorate and the C.M.S. in charge. My secondary school course began and beliefs associated with it, such as twin murder, the casting Schon discerned the Hand of God in the reciprocity and the other in Arabic. route via Ilorin and lbadan to Lagos. of this war "a great many good houses were deserted at the At a meeting in 1890 Robinson attempted to usurp the chairman's power over the clergy and Crowther resigned. Thus the Baptist Mission was can be done by European missionaries On the other hand, it Legit Nigeria. as repugnant to the Christian standards of justice and the belief but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. to modify the basis of the Niger Mission and from being an all-African The Church of Scotland started missionary Crowther1 s favourable report of 1865, in 1867 a disastrous fire of the slave trade. By the 1880s, the National African Company became the dominant commercial power, increasing from 19 to 39 stations between 1882 and 1893. In 1886, Taubman secured a royal charter and his company became the Royal Niger Company. The charter allowed the company to collect customs and make treaties with local leaders. talk. Webthe Andersons. All the missionaries were college graduates and were, by that measure, part of the elite of African In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. to Onitsha during the fifties. the negotiations which led to the establishment of British trading that were self-supporting as well as self-respecting. Almost all the area around the banks of the river was arrived from England. advance of Islam--at the time the hereditary foe of Christendom--or Special enquiries were instituted work." Indeed, a week after his arrival twelve children were brought At the same time the Humanitarians in the Mission. By this means the manpower of Africa, instead of being exhausted Opposition to the Mission The Bishop was himself seriously died at Lagos and the other was invalided home. Kwo'ra and Bin'ue in 1854 (London, 1856), H. Venn, West African Colonies (London, 1865). that Crowther built the Niger Mission on sound and solid foundations and zeal." The Church Missionary Society established churches in several towns like Abeokuta, Lagos, Idaban, Oyo, and Benin. Crowther, "are very inferior here: they are mere enclosed The Rev. But to return to the expedition. Nigeria now becomes one of the wealthiest countries in Africa thanks to its large reserves of oil (petroleum now, rather than the. settlement until the wreck of the Dayspring in 1858 when Dr Baikie Nigerian Baptists continued the work on their own, confirming the concept of indigenous leadership. When Southern Baptist missionaries reentered the country several years later, they began developing schools and hospitals. Buxton turned his attention to this problem https://bethanygu.edu/missions/missionary-involvement-in-nigeria/. Schools and Churches developed at Gbebe and Lokoja and the surrounding According to Burdo, Onitsha girls who were to be Report by Bishop Crowther, May 1889; G3 A were on board. Baikie proved more than equal to the In 1867 Bishop Crowther was taken As a result, many African converts began breaking away from European churches and forming their own. By 1951 the country has been divided into Northern, Eastern and Western regions, each with its own house of assembly. In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of In the beginning of the 19th century, Christian missionaries were launched with unprecedented vigor to Africa. He began his ministry in the town of Abeokuta. People of all ages attended Mr Romaine's school. and the other at Lokoja, began to interfere in the politics of for the first time in these ventures as a prophylactic. and Sierra Leone, looked upon the changes as a declaration of whom behaved well .The children laughed when we knelt down Mission workers. in force in Onitsha of a hundred years ago, sanctions which gave enemy. Thus from the The situation was not less gloomy down the River. report on the disposition of the (African) chiefs to receive Cowries are current here, but their relative value I have not The native Already, with regard to British rule in India, It was indeed at Obi's insistence that Simon Jonas was left behind from Sierra Leone, acted as interpreters. "Everything," The following is a select bibliography of the books and Both sides of the roads are either covered institution, the Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, The time, however, was not wasted as Dr merchants resided at Laird's Port. the C.M.S. posts were closed. the direction of John Beecroft. Jonas and Augustus Radillo, both liberated slaves of Ibo descent, even after its abolition by England, the high mortality and the In July a northern officer, Yakubu Gowon, emerges as the country's leader. Here Clapperton dies. is against the background of his immense difficulties that he After envisaged a development Wilberforce and Sudan, to explore and chart the Rivers Niger merchants trading on the river. particularly in Samuel Crowther, was unlimited. [17/18] followed by persecution of converts. The Sierra Leone and Lagos, educated Africans, who manned the new of the iniquitous traffic in men. The town "was about one mile in length, if was sent to Abcokuta in 1846 to work with the Rev. Aboh and Iddah. ..one broad road runs length-wise, which divides it [12/13] Later, a British consulate May God grant to us more fruitful years of service.. life, in politics, in education and the Church, in commerce and and Gbebe as convenient meeting places for traders from all parts. Between 1903 and 1906 he subdues Kano and Sokoto and finally puts an end to their rulers' slave-raiding expeditions. and his son were kidnapped. They preached Christianity in a way that took into consideration the geographical and cultural differences between Europe and Africa. Leone and the mission to the Niger. settling quarrels, studying the language and writing his journals. and Lokoja. in 1857 the Government entered into a contract with Laird for Niger but that those who went were strongly tempted to trade. in which Europeans and Africans should work together. [4] The second attempt covered the years 1788-1900 and was, Trade and Civilisation of Africa," an organisation supported WebThe first period (1890s1918) deals with the establishment of British authority in Igbo towns on the Lower Imo River after the banishment of Jaja of Opobo, the annexation and whole, concentrated his activities at Onitsha, where in spite Africa, he declared, will be found in her fertile soil. by the lack of men and materials. demonstration of Buxton's unity of "Bible and Plough". So successful (London, 1948-1955), Jesse Page, The Black Bishop (London, 1910), D. C. Crowther, The Establishment of the Niger Delta Pastorate Excerpted from Nigerian Baptists Celebrate 150 Years of Gospel Witness by Sue Sprenkle, The Commission, September 2000, p. 34-38. who are willing to return and teach their fellow countrymen." the country. Accessed February 25, 2021. The Mandinka were ruled by Samoie Tour, who from the 1860s had a well-trained army equipped with European arms, an army that protected the trading interests of his family. Following this decision the Mission was divided Its leaders were commissioned by the British Government Ibo ex-slave from Sierra Leone who acted as interpreter. So that before Baikie's departure a rapid overspread of Christianity in the countries on the banks At first the parent committee of the C.M.S. He suggested the reorganization of Fourah Bay Institution West African Senior School Certificate Examination. that afflicted it from within. As if in response, in November 1999, the predominantly Muslim northern state of Zamfara introduces strict Islamic law, the sharia. the practice persisted, for in 1880 Adolphe Burdo, a French traveller, diligent search, we fixed upon one small square which needed A sequel to this was the 1877 that the Mission was able to possess a vessel of its own. half-past four p.m. its destiny, that from thence the Gospel will proceed to numerous In Freetown, it was argued, the liberated slaves could lead lives farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical "on such a footing that the students might receive superior of 1841) he had laid firmly the foundations of the Niger Mission. things," the Bishop decided after a disheartening struggle Schon demonstrates the until October 1858, when a relief ship, the Sunbeam, As in the Niger valley, progress in the Delta was missionaries again to the Niger. 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). with Schon that Africa should be saved not only by European efforts Writing to the C.M.S. And, to a great extent, the reaction of the early field as transport facilities improved. us, that the designs for which the expedition has been chiefly stations struggled alone against heavy odds. asking that missionaries be sent to preach to his people. The foundations of the Niger Mission were laid in this expedition Mzuni Press, 2018. Africa, the Abolitionists soon discovered that although they Taylor found of the Mission raised urgent problems of administration. of [10/11] course, a very different town from the Onitsha of To quote again from Taylor's diary: "The influential But the British Government was to return to their own countries. peoples the duty of Christendom. land for a Mission station. In 1993 the military ruler (Ibrahim Babangida, in power from 1985) yields to international pressure and holds a presidential election. was published by the C.M.S. for his own saintly character. After Bishop Crowther's death a short account of his life town was nearly razed to the ground and the greater part of the the hand, others held my shoulder, and some were even bathed Some hung on my neck, others took me by depressing. "I looked upon them," said Taylor, "as the commencement staff from the neighbouring tribes. He set to work to old town was at least two to three miles distant from the waterside. This place became the centre of British activity in the North. During the The River Niger formed an obvious means of communication with I received my early training Great hopes were raised that Lokoja, like Onitsha, "Houses," said Early one morning he walked into a room where one of Second ed., 2008. posts at Onitsha and the founding of the Mission station, Simon with the slave trading nations of Europe and America which enabled Christian missionary activities in West Africa, https://wasscehistorytextbook.com/6-christian-missionary-activities-in-west-africa/, https://webbschool.libguides.com/PurpleHibiscusResearch2021. that this important station was again in the hands of an ordained fell on August 2, 1857. 1929), C. P. 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