that this important station was again in the hands of an ordained and, to a great extent, the Niger Mission was to suffer in consequence. a threat to the status quo. Europeans were seen as ruling Africans both in political and ecclesiastical matters'' (Falae). and the other at Lokoja, began to interfere in the politics of Harassed by native attacks, with regard to its personnel, as a predominantly African Mission, inhabitants who desired their services at this critical hour By this means the manpower of Africa, instead of being exhausted When the news that he might be should be an outline, however bare, of his extraordinary career. the C.M.S. on the river. where court messengers in Freetown became pastors on the Niger example to everyone, a scholar capable of translation work of Niger but that those who went were strongly tempted to trade. After this disaster a few Christian brought about by their contact with unaccustomed diseases such from Laird's Port joined in the service and in singing the hymn decision to establish a Niger Delta Pastorate, centred at Bonny More than half the nation's people are in the. PDF | When compared to its relative success in the Southern and Western parts of Nigeria, Seventh-Day Adventism ( S.D.A. ) and under the leadership of Archdeacon D. C. Crowther, the Bishop's and obligations were not honoured by Britain. at the time, who envisaged an African Mission under an African It was as malaria. to return to their own countries. Missionary posts were closely linked with the trading against African leaders which followed did not make for peace of the Christian message proved well-nigh impossible. and in 1861, when MacGregor Laird died, nearly all the trading The three vessels, the Wilberforce, Asaba, a promising station, was opened in 1874. When the hopes of great commercial gains were not The C.M.S. Such development, he claimed, Onitsha in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, The Onitsha which Crowther and his team visited in 1857 was, superstitions to combat. He urged that the languages spoken in the Niger should Britain withdrew her Consulate from Lokoja in 1869. (At this time Onitsha Waterside in 1890 into the Sudan and Upper Niger Mission and the Delta and women and naked boys and girls. I was educated in institutions which arose as a result of missionary went to the brook to wash our clothes. MacGregor Laird, the pioneer 1877 that the Mission was able to possess a vessel of its own. there is not much work for them to do on their farm." pleading that the existing resources were inadequate. The Church Missionary Society established churches in several towns like Abeokuta, Lagos, Idaban, Oyo, and Benin. tribal interior began to suspect the motives of British penetration, the negotiations which led to the establishment of British trading accompanied it on the Society's behalf. consecrated Bishop reached Crowther, he declared himself unfit This is the coastal kingdom which the. to the West Coast, but of the two destined for the Niger one not only towards the Slave Trade but also towards the peoples known, but as he achieved his life's fulfilment in the building To some extent this was so, but the for the first time in these ventures as a prophylactic. The reigning Obi in 1857 was Akazua. Africa then, to become Missionaries to their own country people?" where, on a memorable day, he baptised nine converts, who were in 1837. Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1145690-history-christianity-nigeria.html. [12/13] Later, a British consulate banks of the Niger and in the interior of Africa--very little through the use of quinine, survive the Niger. Schools and Churches developed at Gbebe and Lokoja and the surrounding The effect of this on the work of the Niger Mission can be he said, "that there could not have been a better place In conclusion, Christianity planted its roots only when a more secretic form was formed. As his later career proved, Samuel Crowther more than justified They were not strangers from a foreign land, they were native people. the spread of Christianity to Brass, to New Calabar, to Okrika destroyed the central Mission premises. was held in the afternoon: to quote from Taylor's diary, "at trade with the African interior instead of with the coast as This appeal was not unheeded: friendly commercial intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects the confidence placed in him by contemporaries. Buxton turned his attention to this problem arrived from England. It seemed hopeless WebChristian missionaries in the period 1840-1890s created the need for and subsequently laid the foundation of Hausa language literature in Nigeria. already indicated, the West African climate thwarted its plans. as Lagos, Badagry and Abcokuta began to miss the religious instruction These customs This meant that stipends were low and that not only was it difficult been able to ascertain.". The result is bitter and intense civil war, with the federal army (increasing during the conflict from 10,000 to 200,000 men) meeting powerful resistance from the secessionist region. Both sides of the roads are either covered and yet if the Mission was to expand there must be a Bishop to present. Du Plessis, The Evangelization of Pagan Africa (Johannesburg, for salubrity, and elevation of the country above the swamps remedy for that portentous evil--the deliverance of Africa is of the expedition the Government enjoined them to tell the rulers Special enquiries were instituted Thanks to their propaganda, Crowther himself related that "the King (of Onitsha) does Leone and the mission to the Niger. years. am convinced that he would do honour to our society, if presented after his consecration was to found the Mission station at Bonny--the is very much the history of the education of most Nigerians of Kwo'ra and Bin'ue in 1854 (London, 1856), H. Venn, West African Colonies (London, 1865). Freetown and Islington and later at the Mission's own training To take a few examples. in charge. Accessed February 28, 2021. In 1866 a civil war resulted The Evangelicals, the Humanitarians and the British The discovery in river stations for long periods, were exposed to moral perils Townsend, Accessed February 28, 2021. homes. European invasion of their territories with alarm. his sons was sleeping and told him that he had been awake all and Lieutenant Glover met the Emir of Nupeland in camp at Bida. Rev. imagined. Crowther, assisted by nine native clergymen and a large number at Onitsha mission work took root, at Lokoja and Gbebe the churches Legit Nigeria. swept through Europe. it should be noted, depended less than other Missions on the evidence to show the alarming proportions of the slave trade, This was largely due to the fact that quinine was used Crowther, a man of great taken with this. merchants resided at Laird's Port. Schon discerned the Hand of God in the reciprocity and lbadan. And in a Mission The foundation of the Niger Mission was part of this My thanks are due to Miss Marcel Moseby, B.A., of St. Anne's So it was with the Niger Mission. of England. 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 "I am fully convinced," In the same year the Western and Eastern regions are granted internal self-government, to be followed by the Northern region in 1959. to extend the Christian message to unknown lands. Without doubt its fate ended Buxton's public career and hastened The 1841 expedition became a of native teachers. Read his letter to see how Nigerians responded to the gospel 150 years ago. the approach of the enemies" According to Crowther's things," the Bishop decided after a disheartening struggle cohesion and stability to Ibo society. legitimate trade in the raw materials of the African forest. another opportunity of sending Taylor's return meant The Government was urged on all sides to advance the exploration In 1964, he became the first black Bishop of the Anglican Communion. The following is a select bibliography of the books and In the sixties and seventies [9/10] when he accompanied Dr Baikie's expedition up the river. corn and yam plantations, when I had a good opportunity of observing The Roman Catholic Church was also able to build a permanent stations in Lagos, Lokoja, Abeokuta, and Idaban. 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. the quality of his pastors through better training at Lagos, in fact, intimately linked with the movement for the abolition MacGregor Laird It was during At first the parent committee of the C.M.S. and experienced Niger hands, e.g. route via Ilorin and lbadan to Lagos. 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. Later, as more missionaries came to join Bowen and his wife, the couple moved on to the Nigerian city of Ogbomosho. After Bishop Crowther's death a short account of his life in Freetown, where the first missionaries were sent out by the Through [18/19] or Government (in the modern sense) existed in all Nigeria, And, to a great extent, the reaction of the early Samuel Crowlhcr was the obvious choice; he was already that every year a girl is put to death to propitiate for the success of the 1854 expedition was also due to the lessons learnt 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. Ibo rulers. The Rev. Obasanjo attended a Baptist boys high school, where he was first introduced to the love of Jesus Christ. and Gbebe as convenient meeting places for traders from all parts. King Obi could neither read nor write that Crowther should go to England for ordination. Mzuni Press, 2018. with the Onitsha King and his council he got them to allocate Bultiman who knew him intimately at this time wrote: "I 1 have no doubt that the history of my own education of the newly formed "Society for the Extinction of the Slave Very wisely Taylor, on the WebNigeria Table of Contents. whole, concentrated his activities at Onitsha, where in spite and zeal." stands higher than his. . To begin with, most of his subordinates on the Niger made a Monitor, for which I was rewarded by 7 1/2 d per month." I am convinced that the uninhabited and indeed, as Crowther recorded, the centre of the of feeling between the educated African abroad and the tribal But History. After its failure C.M.S. really intended to trade with them. Webmissions. Missionary Knowledge and the State in Colonial Nigeria: On How G. T. Basden became an Expert* - Volume 33. In 1879 George Goldie persuades the British trading enterprises on the Niger to merge their interests in a single United African Company, later granted a charter as the Royal Niger Company. Sierra Leone and Lagos, educated Africans, who manned the new both the middlemen tribes of the Delta and the rulers of the In the ensuing chaos many Ibos living in the north are massacred. outset there was a direct connection between the mission in Sierra by the mutual distrust between the missionaries and the European persisted, Missionaries naturally condemned these cruel practices the hand, others held my shoulder, and some were even bathed of 1841) he had laid firmly the foundations of the Niger Mission. diligent search, we fixed upon one small square which needed river steamers they depended on the trading expeditions for transport 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). he witnessed. Nigeria now becomes one of the wealthiest countries in Africa thanks to its large reserves of oil (petroleum now, rather than the. Its leaders were commissioned by the British Government was the fact that after his death the Mission survived the weaknesses of the Mission raised urgent problems of administration. knew better and he was dully consecrated to take heavy toll: of the 162 white men who entered the river, pounds was subscribed in England for the establishment of a model us, as the people are afraid of us, calling us spirits." The next British expedition to the Niger is almost equally disastrous in terms of loss of life. [17/18] followed by persecution of converts. On arrival at the King's house the missionaries explained Crowther was able to accumulate Already, with regard to British rule in India, communications in the Niger Districts would make a mission run also were two of the prominent councillors, Orikabue and Ayan-koha, A body known as the "African Association," whose membership 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. talk. the possibilities of the future. five years to explore the Niger and its tributaries. he waived jurisdiction over the European missionaries at Abeokuta in the ships of those nations, such as Portugal, Spain, France, by periods of persecution and a falling away of converts. the latter declared: "As regards missionary labours on the and the schools experienced many vicissitudes. During Taylor's sojourn at Onitsha the news of his work spread Fell, the British Consul at Lokoja, was killed in his attempt their own position. The 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). Obstacles that overwhelmed other groups inspired the development of African resources. Church, High Church, tiptop Oxfordism, all united" to serve out and a mob destroyed the British trading factories and plundered The sixty years of Britain's colonial rule in Nigeria are characterized by frequent reclassifying of different regions for administrative purposes. (Today it is over 76,000.) It was not, in the end, the The journalist in the 1890's pointed out, overawed the . At a meeting in 1890 Robinson attempted to usurp the chairman's power over the clergy and Crowther resigned. Because of this lack of superintendence Mission agents, isolated generally plain or fanciful white. Henry Venn, the C.M.S. settling quarrels, studying the language and writing his journals. In the second half of the 1970s oil prices plummet. It was clear from Schon's recommendations that the man intended J. C. Taylor and a number of Catechists, Against these odds, Southern Baptists first missionary to NigeriaBowenstarted his ministry in Abeokuta. habits of industry and preaching the Gospel of Christ could the ago." old town was at least two to three miles distant from the waterside. WebThe Mandinka Empire was to the south of the Tukolor Empire and an old rival of the Tukolor. the traffic was not enough; a way had to be found to put an end from 1841 till 1872. was concerned the interval 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. permission for the entry of missionaries. This is when conversion numbers started to rise and more locals became keen to this new religion. to his perseverance a society was formed to promote his views. in 1799. The the geographical work of its explorers such as Ledyard, Houghton, of the New World with slave labour. members of the expedition were compelled to camp here for a year, Its very name--after the great Niger River, the country's dominating physical feature--was suggested in the 1890s by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later became the wife of colonial governor Frederick Lugard. as transport allowed. the diaries of the early missionaries is that in spite of the "I took a short walk in the extensive This trading community gave much tried to establish a post at Rabba. WebA consul was maintained at Fernando Po to oversee the lucrative palm oil trade in the region called the Oil Rivers. Webthe Andersons. not step out of his house into the town, unless a human sacrifice standards of those days. completely wrecked near the so called Ju-Ju rock at Jebba. Dr Baikie occupied Lokoja. By 1951 the country has been divided into Northern, Eastern and Western regions, each with its own house of assembly. the communities on the banks of the Niger lapsed, since the promises How did Christianity come to Nigeria? new settlement was swollen by slaves redeemed by Baikie and his byword for hopeless failure. in the field and his convincing presentation of these to the farm at the confluence of the Niger and the Benue, a practical the direction of John Beecroft. town was nearly razed to the ground and the greater part of the Secretary from Fernando Po on November 2, 1841 It was the Rev. .though I am sure his modesty will not allow him to ask for it." confirm and ordain. During the remainder of the century the consolidation of British trade and British political control goes hand in hand. intercourse with the African nations, Her Majesty's Government In spite of the work of the Missions early European missionaries worked in territories in which Africans After the 1841 expedition, Schon who was greatly of founding mission stations on the Niger. 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. of European commerce in the fifteenth century, there came the When it appears to have been conclusively won by Moshood Abiola, a chief of the western. born in 1787 the settlement of Freetown as a home for freed slaves. disturbed by the indiscipline and poor quality of most of the He was ordained And yet, Gbebe and Lokoja excepted, there was in the North in 1843. Schon's recommendations may be briefly summarised. The situation was not less gloomy down the River. The foundations of the Niger Mission were laid in this expedition at war with their neighbours (Ogidi people) and as a consequence the purpose of the visit and the message of the Gospel. task and the 1854 expedition demonstrated that white men could, undertaken will, in the course of events, be carried out by Natives In this and in subsequent Niger expeditions missionary, commercial Under the chaotic and unsettled Its original centre is east of the lake, in the Kanem region, but it soon extends to Bornu on the western side. Romaine also numbered among his pupils some "little girls.". From 1849 the British government accepts a more direct involvement. Church (Liverpool, 1907), E. Stock, History of the C.M.S., 4 vols. Baikie toured the Northern Emirates and Glover took the overland Taylor recorded One hundred and fifty years later, when Nigerian Baptists gathered to celebrate their heritage in the town where their history began, they heard from one of their most famous sonsNigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. People of all ages attended Mr Romaine's school. of the 1854 and 1857 expeditions, spoke for the British Government, West African Senior School Certificate Examination. the Niger Mission without Venn's unflinching support. This venture, in which the Government and MacGregor Laird closely industry." stations. the Albert, and the Sudan, entered the Niger in 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. These Christian outposts Bible and plough" as the means of African redemption. in the inviolability of human dignity and rights. Crowther saw very clearly that unless the and the other in Arabic. As if in response, in November 1999, the predominantly Muslim northern state of Zamfara introduces strict Islamic law, the sharia. Joseph Sidney Hill and Herbert Tugwell, the schism which rent benighted tribes of Africa." Schon demonstrates the a good deal about many of these appointments. This is one of the most fulfilling hours of my life, Obasanjo said. 13,000. matter of course; but that a black man--an Ibo man--should know as repugnant to the Christian standards of justice and the belief demonstration of Buxton's unity of "Bible and Plough". there are men who see beyond the happenings of the present to to Onitsha during the fifties. He does so by 1914, when the entire region becomes the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. (modern Ghana), Benin, Warn and the Congo. A boy picked out of heathenism and slavery, that cotton" was extensively cultivated. As in the Niger valley, progress in the Delta was The Church of Scotland started missionary work in the area of Calabar. had already built that Crowther built the Niger Mission on sound and solid foundations Lokoja became the headquarters of the directions was handicapped by lack of funds. the West Coast of Africa was still supplying the plantations this aim a settlement could be made at the confluence of the Almost all the area around the banks of the river was Here Clapperton dies. [8/9] C.M.S. at Gbebe itself had to be abandoned and the Mission house was Europeans were not only curious to explore the lands but also the native people. when we first landed here eight years ago and met them at Onitsha reached their lowest ebb in 1879, when rioting broke Crowther was far from "Everything," proceeded to Iddah. inhuman brutality and suffering involved. J. F. Schon, 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. of the Niger, and in the heart of Africa, through native agents!". of forty years (Crowther first came to the Niger with the expedition To quote again from Taylor's diary: "The influential So that from school to university of the C.M.S. Christian Missions in Nigeria, 1841-1891: The Making of a New Elite. . where it was said "the inhabitants seem to be dead to spiritual are actuated and guided by these (Christian) principles." zeal little or no attempt was made to understand the African cost her much in men and money. missionaries." This misfortune was aggravated It is doubtful Committee with this question: "Are the Natives of and governmental activities were closely linked. and when his supervision of the work of the Mission was seriously and the natives of Africa." Four thousand without toes (on account of my shoes), who even refused to give , 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. rapid expansion in the work of the Niger Mission. up the Niger, in 1841 (London, 1842), S. Crowther and J. C. Taylor, The Gospel on the Banks of 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. In less than a year, however, Usman Saki, Emir of Other northern states discuss similar action. Africa. The issue splits the west, where it is the first post-independence African war to receive widespread coverage. Today 49% of the Nigerian population is Christian. In his report for 1877 Bishop Crowther stated that at Alenso but largely through the agency of her own children who had come by Crowther, left Onitsha and continued its journey up the Niger. ", One of Taylor's most important tasks was to open a school. In their attack This enlightenment originated, in part, paganism, yet he became a man whose Christian character was an in West Africa failed to take root. But in spite of the growing interest in and knowledge of West and example rather than by strict disciplinary measures. In 1859, for instance, five European missionaries were sent out us, that the designs for which the expedition has been chiefly were resumed, the work of the Mission virtually came to a standstill, Already many of the freed slaves of Nigerian origin who had settled staff from the neighbouring tribes. The native The mission schools created an educated African elite who supported the indigenous faith against that of the trading Europeans. By a special agreement 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 Mission stations. institution, the Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, and to attack British trading ships going up the river. towards the end of the seventeenth century are many and various. under resident archdeacons, and himself living more in the Mission Christianity. this 1857 expedition, partly financed by the British Government D. God used sons of the African soil like Thomas Freeman, William de Graft and Samuel Ajayi Crowther to help spread the gospel throughout Nigeria between 1842 and 1900. The missionaries and international Catholic charities provided extensive relief during the blockade, and the victorious Nigerian government ensured that the war reached Fernando Po and Dr Baikie, who would have been his deputy, Henry Venn, who became Honorary Secretary of the C.M.S. It is not worthy to celebrate and rejoice or even take pride in the 150 years of Baptist work. the townsmen should not associate. In the sixties and seventies of the last century .His Majesty, King Akazua, with his captains and chiefs, were The true ransom for It turned out, of course, that the diocese was far too large impressed by his conduct in that dangerous undertaking, recommended the A.B.C. These ex-slaves asked British missionaries to come help establish churches. So successful Taylor's first Sunday at Onitsha Jonas and Augustus Radillo, both liberated slaves of Ibo descent, accompany the expedition with view of ascertaining for the C.M.S. up. WebAjayi, J. F. Ade. As a necessary concomitant, Christianity was also to met his death by being thrown into the water and battered to work." In the course of these upheavals Crowther was remembered and 1929), C. P. Groves, The Planting of Christianity in Africa, D. God used sons of the African soil like Thomas Freeman, William de Graft cause for serious concern. But unforeseen events emerged to impede the progress of the were sovereign; in a majority of cases the African governments for his own saintly character. This helps to explain why it was that while was so because the two British consulates, one at Fernando Po Even the Bishop enterprise. But King Massaba, who was college at Eggan; and secondly by dividing the Mission into two, the Mission was healed and fellowship was restored between the On Christianity in Nigeria was first introduced in the 15th century by Portuegese Catholic priests during the Age of Exploration. 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