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Article: School for progress: the re-routing of BCMS missionaries into education for the end of empire in Karamoja, Uganda.(Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society)
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
- Author:
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Christian mission could not have hoped to have more influence on schools in Africa than that which was open to it before the end of empire. To a great extent, the missionary societies had earned their dominant position, having long invested in Western education, while government had hardly extended its role much beyond law and order to commercial development. Even by 1924, 90 per cent of all schools in tropical Africa were mission schools. (1) Missionary statesmen were not complacent about the quality of the effect of those schools, criticizing untrained or unsuitable agents for their part in breaking down "native customs, good and bad alike" and for transplanting from ...