In 1843, Anglican missionaries travelled to present-day southwestern Nigeria to form a community of God-fearing Christians. They came head-to-head with families and chiefly authorities, some of whom agreed with Christianity, some who did not and with some converts suffering persecution. In this course we will examine a British Protestant mission from the following perspectives: missionaries’ relationship with the chiefly authorities in Yorubaland; the making of an African convert; artefacts of the Mission; displaying trophies of Mission in Britain; missionaries and Empire.
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