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In the telling of the history of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Tanzania, the initiatives, contributions, and experiences of indigenous teachers have too often been neglected in favour of stories of sacrifices of Western missionaries. Bishop Mwita Akiri redresses this bias by using a socio-historical approach, written from an Afro-centric tradition, to evaluate the contributions and experiences of indigenous agents in the growth of Christianity in Tanzania. This book underscores the significance of oral tradition in African historiography and challenges the claim that foreign missionaries succeeded in destroying African cultures, when they are in fact alive and well. This much-needed research also provides a model for dialogue between the perspective of Christian missions and that of African religious and social heritage in order to continue forward with a Christianity that is authentic and also distinctly African.

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Date de parution 14 février 2020
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EAN13 9781783688029
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This long-awaited book by Mwita Akiri is a triumph of interdisciplinary scholarship. Making use of cultural studies, history, ethnography, and sometimes theology, he reaches some important and illuminating conclusions. For instance, the tensions between mission Christianity and the African cultural heritage could sometimes be creative and enriching, but were often far otherwise. African church workers gave surprisingly effective and influential leadership, but it usually fell below the radar of colonial mission societies (and most historians). And the colonial administrations – first German, then British – had a decidedly double-edged impact on Christian churches and schools. In his very thorough research, not only has Dr Akiri worked through the manuscript record and historical publications, but he has also interviewed dozens of men and women who participated in this history or had significant knowledge to share. This book has implications far beyond central Tanganyika before 1933, for it can be read as a particularly telling case study of the mutual impact of foreign missions and indigenous cultures worldwide.
Alan L. Hayes, PhD
Bishops Frederick and Heber Wilkinson Professor of the History of Christianity,
Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada
Mwita Akiri is to be highly commended for this book which is likely to prove indispensable in any historical review and understanding of the period under its purview in the establishment of the church in central Tanganyika. Whereas previous texts have focused almost exclusively on the role played by foreign agents and Western missionaries in Eastern Africa and in Africa generally, Bishop Akiri seeks to explore the inarguably pivotal and central roles played by indigenous agents of Christian mission in Ugogo and Ukaguru. This book is based and grounded on oral and hitherto untapped primary sources to provide a rich and fresh understanding of the roots and spread of the present church in this area.
Mwita Akiri’s work is well written, persuasive and cogently argued. It immerses the reader in the world of the Gogo and Kaguru of Central Tanganyika in the second half of the nineteenth century, exploring their social worlds, culture and religions during this pre-Christian period and laying the ground for understanding the world that the pioneer missionaries encountered and sought to evangelize. It also discusses the threat of Islam which in a sense predated Christianity in the area.
Bishop Mwita Akiri knows this story well and tells it in a lively and convincing manner. His many years of work and residence in Dodoma, Central Tanzania, located in the heart of Ugogo and Ukaguru homelands, undoubtedly contributed to his deep understanding of this bygone era and space, and his sound reinterpretation and lively retelling of this rich and complex story. It will no doubt prove to be a rich resource for all interested in this story. I fully commend it. This work is a joy to read.
Aloo Osotsi Mojola, PhD
Professor, St Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya
Honorary Professor, Faculty of Theology,
Pretoria University, Pretoria, South Africa
In the Church Missionary Society histories of Anglican mission in Tanzania, little space has been given to the initiatives, contributions and experiences of indigenous teachers. Rather the spotlight was cast on the western missionaries who made great sacrifices in service to God.
This socio-historical study seeks to redress that bias in mission historiography. Written from an Afro-centric rather than Western-centric tradition, it sheds much-needed light on the indispensable role of the indigenous agents during the early mission years, 1876–1933.
This work is also more than a historical analysis. Weaknesses in the CMS mission model, namely irrelevant and non-contextual leadership training, and a legalism devoid of connection to African culture, has continuing relevance for the Anglican Church of Tanzania today and its struggles with nominalism. History is a great teacher and there are strong and abiding lessons to be learned from this study for the ongoing ministry of CMS in Africa.
Rev Canon Peter Rodgers
International Director/CEO,
Church Missionary Society, Australia
Africa is, in numerical terms, now the most Christian continent on the globe. But the African church is still wrestling with the question of what it means to be at the same time authentically African and authentically Christian. Mwita Akiri’s valuable in-depth study of the early years of the Anglican Church in Ugogo and Ukaguru (central Tanzania) reveals the problems left by misconceived missionary strategies of Christian education, but also the crucial role played by indigenous Christians – both male teachers and “Bible women” – in the shaping of modern Tanzanian Anglicanism.
Brian Stanley, PhD
Professor of World Christianity,
Director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity,
University of Edinburgh, UK

Christianity in Central Tanzania
A Story of African Encounters and Initiatives in Ugogo and Ukaguru, 1876–1933
Mwita Akiri

© 2020 Mwita Akiri
Published 2020 by Langham Monographs
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Scripture quotations are from Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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To my parents, Tata Edward Mwita Akiri and Mayo Silibia Mugure Akiri, and my oral informants in Ugogo and Ukaguru.
Contents

Cover


Acknowledgements


Abstract


Abbreviations


Notes on Names and Terminology


Names


Terminology


Chapter 1 Nature of Study, Scope, and Research Methodology


1.1 Nature of Study


1.2 Scope


1.3 Research Methodology


1.4 A Complementary Role of Data Sources


Chapter 2 Gogo and Kaguru Societies in the Late Ninteenth Century


2.1 Geography of Ugogo and Ukaguru


2.2 The Formation of the Gogo and Kaguru Societies


2.3 Political Organization


2.4 Social Structure


2.5 Aspects of Gogo and Kaguru Social Customs


2.6 Aspects of Gogo and Kaguru Religions


2.7 Conclusion


Chapter 3 Christian Developments in Ugogo and Ukaguru 1876–1900


3.1 King Mutesa of Buganda and Henry Stanley


3.2 Mpwapwa: A Place of Significance


3.3 Mpwapwa, Chamuhawi, and Mamboya: The Survivors


3.4 The End of Self-Preservation and the Birth of an Expansion Era


3.5 Conclusion


Chapter 4 The Initiatives of the Gogo and Kaguru Chiefs


4.1 Chiefs as Indigenous Agents


4.2 Chiefs and the Establishment of Mission Stations


4.3 Chiefs, Buildings and Literacy Classes


4.4 Chiefs and German Colonial Education Policy


4.5 The “Threat” of Islam


4.6 Standing by the “Fence”: Chiefs and Conversion


4.7 Conclusion


Chapter 5 Educational Contributions of Indigenous Teachers


5.1 Literacy Training as a Missionary Method


5.2 The Out-School as Chief Agencies for Evangelization


5.3 The Medium of Instruction in the German Colonial Era


5.4 Teaching Methods at the Out-Schools


5.5 Missionary Focus on Children


5.6 Competition with Roman Catholic Missions


5.7 African Conversion and Motives of Adult Converts


5.8 The Catechetical Process


5.9 Conclusion


Chapter 6 Missionary Contributions of Indigenous Teachers

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