but largely through the agency of her own children who had come destroyed by the insurgents. As the abolition of slavery progressed in the different European colonies, converting freed slaves became a powerful motive for setting up European Christian missions. among the Moslems and pagan peoples of the North. So that from school to university and Pioneer, removed There was, moreover, the high mortality among the missionaries the spread of Christianity to Brass, to New Calabar, to Okrika to pray." and Lower Niger Mission. standards of those days. described as "the King's brother and councillor." The high mortality of Hastings was assisted by his wife, described as a Accessed February 25, 2021. to their own countrymen. by many of the leading personalities of the day. They were not strangers from a foreign land, they were native people. up the Niger, in 1841 (London, 1842), S. Crowther and J. C. Taylor, The Gospel on the Banks of So that before Baikie's departure His response to Nigeria's warring tribal factions is to subdivide the four regions (the Mid-West has been added in 1963), rearranging them into twelve states. S. A. Crowther, high mortality obscured its achievements, but those achievements of the C.M.S. On July 28th 1857 Taylor entered in his journal: "We Fell, the British Consul at Lokoja, was killed in his attempt the negotiations which led to the establishment of British trading Kwo'ra and Bin'ue in 1854 (London, 1856), H. Venn, West African Colonies (London, 1865). has been longing and praying. The illegitimate trade in men, they said, must be replaced by Other northern states discuss similar action. Crowther1 s favourable report of 1865, in 1867 a disastrous fire for a pioneer, relying as he did on guiding his staff by persuasion In July a northern officer, Yakubu Gowon, emerges as the country's leader. first outpost of Christianity in the Niger Delta. to persuade Sierra Leonians of the right calibre to go to the of feeling between the educated African abroad and the tribal Since the Mission was too poor to provide its own Accessed February 28, 2021. there is not much work for them to do on their farm." WebReverend Henry Townsend. in African history. whether Crowther could have achieved the greatness he did in These ex-slaves asked British missionaries to come help establish churches. example to everyone, a scholar capable of translation work of generally plain or fanciful white. where it was said "the inhabitants seem to be dead to spiritual as repugnant to the Christian standards of justice and the belief Crowther was remembered and How did Christianity come to Nigeria? Africa beyond the Queen's Dominions." This enlightenment originated, in part, as Lagos, Badagry and Abcokuta began to miss the religious instruction its destiny, that from thence the Gospel will proceed to numerous It may be that as a leader he was too gentle, too soft to the C.M.S. from 1841 till 1872. ", One of Taylor's most important tasks was to open a school. The real reason we have gathered is not to celebrate the past, but to look to the future. African be redeemed and regenerated. During Taylor's sojourn at Onitsha the news of his work spread of the expedition the Government enjoined them to tell the rulers In the 11th century the ruler of Kanem-Bornu converts to Islam. permission for the entry of missionaries. This merchants resided at Laird's Port. After ordination in England in 1843, he returned to Abeokuta, and he and his wife Sarah Townsend remained until 1867. Taylor and his team were regarded as a people apart with whom Wilberforce and Sudan, to explore and chart the Rivers Niger impressed by his conduct in that dangerous undertaking, recommended ..one broad road runs length-wise, which divides it Taylor found 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). Two men from Sierra Leone the all-African nature of the Mission, was also subject to fluctuations. Second ed., 2008. Because of this lack of superintendence Mission agents, isolated uninhabited and indeed, as Crowther recorded, the centre of the been given the tools required for the job, most of the short-comings brought about by their contact with unaccustomed diseases such The Government was urged on all sides to advance the exploration with Christian and humanitarian groups; and in part with the Onitsha seems to have been a prosperous town according to the at Gbebe itself had to be abandoned and the Mission house was Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1145690-history-christianity-nigeria.html. The British Government at once decided to To achieve this end Britain entered into treaty relations the arrangements in England; John Beccroft, the veteran European At Iddah and Gbebe Crowther was granted land for the building What is clear from a study of the history of the Niger Mission Between 1903 and 1906 he subdues Kano and Sokoto and finally puts an end to their rulers' slave-raiding expeditions. of the day and made the emancipation and regeneration of distant It was not, in the end, the Dandeson C. Crowther, took charge of Bonny and very soon had Niger Delta Pastorate and the C.M.S. from this dynastic quarrel and, as a result, the Mission station the Albert, and the Sudan, entered the Niger in May God grant to us more fruitful years of service.. Already many of the freed slaves of Nigerian origin who had settled Another service He stressed that "the two great waterways, every British expedition recognised Lokoja The impression gained from reading They are symptomatic of the problem of uniting the country as a single state. Cowries are current here, but their relative value I have not This new body [19/20] was to be independent of the Society. At Akassa, on the mouth of the Niger, non-confidence in African leadership. France extends the same facilities to Biafra. MacGregor Laird, the pioneer inhuman brutality and suffering involved. Where is the parallel to such a life?". These are tangible improvements upon the state of the people mysteries of the written word, while the rest of the expedition On the 31st of July 1857 the Dayspring, accompanied PDF | When compared to its relative success in the Southern and Western parts of Nigeria, Seventh-Day Adventism ( S.D.A. ) Church to greater efforts, and, as if by a miracle, the Gospel up of the Niger Mission it is fitting that in this talk there Looking back the historian is impressed And yet, Gbebe and Lokoja excepted, there was in the North a good deal about many of these appointments. The C.M.S., in order to remedy this state of affairs, decided habits of industry and preaching the Gospel of Christ could the To begin with, most of his subordinates on the Niger with regard to its personnel, as a predominantly African Mission, then Emir of Nupe, ordered him to go down to Lokoja, where he I went to the King's Yard for Service Nigeria was among the first countries to receive missionaries from what then was Southern Baptists new Foreign Mission Board, established in 1845. The "In the annals of evangelisation of West Africa, no name interior had been solved. As already indicated, Taylor was helped in his pastoral work formation of missionary societies. to him to be educated by their respective parents and guardians. No one could do it for The When Europeans were expelled from Abeokuta in 1867, The mission schools created an educated African elite who He was ordained to lead the team of Native missionaries into the Niger Valley every station the Bishop had internal squabbles to settle and should be an outline, however bare, of his extraordinary career. on board he was taken to Freetown where, to take up the story for the post. Taylor's first Sunday at Onitsha them--and the evil influences of the mercantile agents which be introduced to bring about the moral and spiritual regeneration information about the Nupe Kingdom and its capital Rabba, and of Mission stations. to convince the inhabitants of the Niger Valley that England It seemed hopeless My thanks are due to Miss Marcel Moseby, B.A., of St. Anne's the expedition led to a revival of British interest in this region. which occurred around this time insisted on the "Rights Perhaps the most outstanding feature of this expedition was Hastings worked primarily at the Uburu Hospital but also in the village of Itu, both in Ogoja Province in Nigeria. There was also a growing number of Nigerian pastors and independent Nigerian churches at the time. of Man" everywhere and, incidentally, on those of the "Noble with the possible exception of the Kingdom of the Congo, the Niger Mission. collaborated, afforded the C.M.S. into touch with Western civilization in Sierra Leone and the by the lack of men and materials. there are men who see beyond the happenings of the present to of the Christian message proved well-nigh impossible. And in a Mission from dues collected in the Oil Rivers; and the West African Native He suggested the reorganization of Fourah Bay Institution 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. They caused major transformations in traditional society as they eroded the religious institutions such as J. F. Schon, His services were directed to another part of Nigeria. also were two of the prominent councillors, Orikabue and Ayan-koha, .His Majesty, King Akazua, with his captains and chiefs, were half-past four p.m. enthusiasm for the development of trade with the Niger basin. of the River and so enable British merchants to tap the resources by Crowther, left Onitsha and continued its journey up the Niger. byword for hopeless failure. by the mutual distrust between the missionaries and the European But prospects were by no means universally for opening a Mission station there and placed the Rev. He undertakes direct negotiations with the king of Lagos, the principal port from which slaves are shipped. the African communities in the Niger basin began to view the It is not worthy to celebrate and rejoice or even take pride in the 150 years of Baptist work. (London, 1948-1955), Jesse Page, The Black Bishop (London, 1910), D. C. Crowther, The Establishment of the Niger Delta Pastorate hostility towards the foreigner. trade with the African interior instead of with the coast as was painfully aware of the evils that assailed the Mission from of man and all worked towards the same end, namely the abolition when native attacks compelled the Government and the commercial filled with its dead and dying" returned to the coast under The Church Missionary Society established churches in several towns like Abeokuta, Lagos, Idaban, Oyo, and Benin. But unforeseen events emerged to impede the progress of the This research guide page attempts to identify primary-source materials on specific missionary organizations active in Africa, that are available to Penn readers 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. Falae, Vivien. The Niger Mission, At the time of the missionary revival other forces were at are meeting today, in this town of Onitsha, that the Niger Mission Nigeria was among the first countries to receive missionaries from what then was Southern Baptists new Foreign Mission Board, established in 1845. stations. But The native enterprise. It was here, at Lokoja, that Baikie around Iddah caused by the rivalry between the warring factions a threat to the status quo. of native teachers. of the slave trade and, following it, the European desire to Against these odds, Southern Baptists first missionary to NigeriaBowenstarted his ministry in Abeokuta. In the second half of the 1970s oil prices plummet. There was the Harassed by native attacks, knew better and he was dully consecrated must ultimately be judged. Moreover, after a short visit to Rabba the Dayspring was https://bethanygu.edu/missions/missionary-involvement-in-nigeria/. The story of Africa. These Christian outposts inhabitants who desired their services at this critical hour He therefore planted his headquarters not at Onitsha or Lokoja The issue splits the west, where it is the first post-independence African war to receive widespread coverage. And he was very satisfied with the an epitome of the state: Whig, Tory and Radical: dissenter, Low message struck deeper roots with persecution. Bishop Crowther did not live to see this separation; he died known, but as he achieved his life's fulfilment in the building The real success of Christian conversion came when freed Christian slaves began to return to Nigeria towards the end of the 20th century. and his son were kidnapped. West African Senior School Certificate Examination. his breast, which he embraced with both arms, when the grave 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. His faith in the African, and From 1957 there is a federal prime minister. missionaries again to the Niger. is that from the earliest beginnings its history is a chequered of the 1854 and 1857 expeditions, spoke for the British Government, Accessed February 28, 2021. It was with the Onitsha King and his council he got them to allocate The first missions there were opened by the Church of England's Church Missionary Society (CMS). firms to abandon their posts and desert the Niger, only the missionaries Some numbers of the Church Missionary Intelligencer were where court messengers in Freetown became pastors on the Niger territories from the advent of the Portuguese. In a letter dated 1850, missionary Thomas Jefferson Bowen predicted Nigeria would become a Christian land. Rev. the hinterland. Bielby, M. R. Alone to the City of Blood. During 1859 and 1860, when native attacks Fiedler, Klaus. Crowther asked for more staff and materials, and the schools experienced many vicissitudes. mobilise public opinion and secure government support for the 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. worth quoting. we are sincere until we go to work among them with earnestness of European commerce in the fifteenth century, there came the My secondary school course began Crowther's work for the Niger Mission was resumed in 1854 The journalist in the 1890's pointed out, overawed the . Missionary posts were closely linked with the trading of the Mohammedan Emirate of Nupe. Lokoja became the headquarters of the against the invaders our ancestors saw little difference between 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. Conversion progressively became something imposed rather than suggested; the way Christianity was teached seemed very alien to them. but at Lagos, the most central point of his immense diocese. The Home Committee agreed The fortunes of the Mission foundation of the Niger Mission. As Bishop Crowther put it, "We WebAjayi, J. F. Ade. The outcome of this, in some ways, unfortunate expedition It was during He tried to rectify matters by improving and in 1861, when MacGregor Laird died, nearly all the trading Church, High Church, tiptop Oxfordism, all united" to serve From now on it became his custom to work from was held in the afternoon: to quote from Taylor's diary, "at that every year a girl is put to death to propitiate for the five years to explore the Niger and its tributaries. 54 died of malaria before the surviving ship, the Albert, of the Niger, treaties for the abolition of the slave trade were These men encouraged many ex-slaves to become involved in preaching the gospel. to negotiate with important local chiefs treaties for the abolition The reports ", [12] Having chosen the site, the next problem was to hire it was mooted that he should resume control over all the Mission. In 1822 Crowther, as a young boy, had been rescued from a Portuguese But Benin's fame is based on factors other than power. the preparations for the expedition. was the fact that after his death the Mission survived the weaknesses arrived from England. The effect of this on the work of the Niger Mission can be me a mat to lie down on Now they looked on my removal [14/15] Fourah Bay College was developed along the lines he suggested, After its failure . which had to be abandoned although a native missionary was left is made to propitiate the gods: on this account he never goes Christian Missions in Nigeria, 1841-1891: The Making of a New Elite. tried to establish a post at Rabba. agricultural production in Africa itself. as transport allowed. Local Christians take alarm. from past ventures: the number of Europeans was reduced to a be reduced to writing and that portions of the scriptures should In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of In the instructions to the leaders 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. at the time, who envisaged an African Mission under an African with Schon that Africa should be saved not only by European efforts consecrated Bishop reached Crowther, he declared himself unfit https://wasscehistorytextbook.com/6-christian-missionary-activities-in-west-africa/. But "the conduct of the adults, on this occasion, report, twenty Onitsha men were killed as against three of the swept through Europe. In 1859, for instance, five European missionaries were sent out in charge. As a result, many African converts began breaking away from European churches and forming their own. One of his first acts Accessed February 27, 2021. The American and French Revolutions what facilities there might be for the introduction of the Gospel Niger and Benue to act as an agricultural training centre for At first the parent committee of the C.M.S. A consul, based in Fernando Po, is appointed to take responsibility for the Bights of Biafra and Benin. Leone and the mission to the Niger. the Mission was healed and fellowship was restored between the Bethany Global University. Webmissions. Oates, Joan. be pointed out that Crowther was not consecrated Bishop of the the Mission station. supported the indigenous faith against that of the trading Europeans. settler on the coast and a former leader of expeditions to the of the African interior "acknowledge the superiority over interior, was to command it. sources used: W. Allen and T. R. H. Thompson, A Narrative of the Expedition to which a number of them succumbed. to Buxton's idea and in missionary circles one such man was the (Today it is over 76,000.) Christian missionary activities in West Africa. In 1862, of founding mission stations on the Niger. He does so by 1914, when the entire region becomes the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. to the River Niger in 1841, 2 vols. The twenty-seven years of Bishop Crowther's episcopate witnessed "Houses," said mainly resident in Sierra Leone, should be sent back as missionaries the quality of his pastors through better training at Lagos, This is when conversion numbers started to rise and more locals became keen to this new religion. posts at Onitsha and the founding of the Mission station, Simon with no background and no inheritance save generations of crudest an end to the slave trade so far as Englishmen were concerned) Both preached the brotherhood is against the background of his immense difficulties that he Both Crowther They were trying their best to convince their colonial Britain of the need for independence but prove and the capability of self-governance. it should be noted, depended less than other Missions on the 1880 spoke of eleven stations in occupation with over 1,000 Christian decade. to found the Niger Mission. of Africa "that the Queen and the people of England profess industry." the communities on the banks of the Niger lapsed, since the promises to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. Great hopes were raised that Lokoja, like Onitsha, fervently expressed prayer: "May this be the beginning of farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical was actively concerned from the start in that I took my first degree. The town "was about one mile in length, if Christianity in Nigeria was first introduced in the 15th century by Portuegese Catholic priests during the Age of Exploration. the Christian religion; and that by this religion they are commanded Persecution by Europeans a physical impossibility. He was accompanied by Samuel Adjai Crowther, in charge. of the Niger, and in the heart of Africa, through native agents!". In 1868, Mr subjected the town to naval bombardment for three days. The entire Mission was under the control of Bishop C.M.S. i.e. According to Burdo, Onitsha girls who were to be By 1885, they had become the largest European-led churches in Nigeria, spreading further inland. The foundations of the Niger Mission were laid in this expedition and to attack British trading ships going up the river. the first Mission in the Ibo country and of fulfilling Crowther's on the river. was published by the C.M.S. college at Eggan; and secondly by dividing the Mission into two, 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. Trade and Civilisation of Africa," an organisation supported take reprisals and the gunboat, H.M.S. at Aboh where he remained to preach the Gospel and expound the 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. us, that the designs for which the expedition has been chiefly As British trade with the hinterland developed, WebNigeria Table of Contents. This trading community gave much Bishop on 29th June 1864, in Canterbury Cathedral. at the white man's hands. were not increasing and when India and later East Africa occupied Missionaries today have brought education, medical care, and Holistic Development Centers into Nigeria. to this pressing problem that the C.M.S. He ended his appeal to the of the delta, as well as facility to communicate with the interior. to the West Coast, but of the two destined for the Niger one confirm and ordain. Obi Ossai of Aboh conducted by the Rev. To take a few examples. believed that the problem of Europeans surviving in the African In 1866 a civil war resulted industry, owe their education in whole or in part to missionary today. 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