Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: WILL NAMIBIAN BONES HAUNT GERMANS FOREVER?

One may also note, in this discussion of the role of Christian missionaries and their institutions in Africa, that some of the Africans who were educated at French missionary schools and eventually emerged as "assimilationists," actually spearheaded, through their scholarship (which included fiction), the movement to deny Africans full independence. Their preference, like that of their French benefactors, was to make the African territories overseas departments within the French Republic. However, when these assimilationist Africans eventually had the opportunity to live in France and interact with ordinary French citizens without the strict monitoring of their French handlers, they encountered a civilization that was completely different from the one that they had idealized in their publications and discovered that they had actually been duped and that the so-called European cultural ideal to which they aspired was not built on the foundation of equality, which they had been taught at their various Christian schools. Some of them actually returned home to join and provide leadership to the independence movement. 

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Akurang-Parry, Kwabena <KAParr@ship.edu> wrote:

Fellow scholars who have been debating the pros and cons of missionary education may use the attachment as a minor footnote to illuminate the ways that the European predatory presence couched in Christian missionary interventionist meta-narratives damaged the African psyche! Did Africans need Euro-Christianity to come into their own and considering the massive weight of Christianity in Africa, have Africans come into their own? It is time to ask new questions.

Kwabena

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From: Kwame Opoku [k.opoku@sil.at]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 1:02 PM
Subject: WILL NAMIBIAN BONES HAUNT GERMANS FOREVER?

I THOUGHT THE ATTACHED MIGHT INTEREST YOU, BEST WISHES,
KWAME.

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