WEST AFRICAN CHURCH

HISTORY
Christian Missions and Church Foundations : 1482-1919

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 CONTENTS

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vn
PART ONE

MISSIONS .FROM WESTERN EUROPE

I. Introduction: Unsuccessful Missionary Ventures. 1482-
1816 . .......... ... ... . ... . .. ....... .. . . . . ...... ... . . . . . ... ............ .. 3
II. The Roots in Europe and America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
III. Church Missionary Society: The Beginnings in Sierra
Leone.................................... ........... .................... 19
IV. Church Missionary Society: Outreach from Sierra Leone . . . 32
V. Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
VI. Basel Missionary Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
VII. Scottish Free Church Missionary Society........................ 73
VIII. North German (Bremen) M issionary Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
IX. Roman Catholic Missionary Societies: Sierra Leone,
Liberia and Nigeria.................................................. 93
X. Roman Catholic Missionary Societies: Ghana and the
Gambia................................................................ 102

PART Two
MISSIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
XI. Initiative from the American Colonization Society............ 113
XII. Southern Baptist Convention Mission............. .......... .... 120
XIII. United Brethren Methodist Mission.... ...... .......... .......... 131
XIV. African Methodist Episcopal Zion Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

PART THREE

CONCLUSIONS
XV. Christian Missions in Catastrophe 1914-1919 ... .. ... . .. . . . .. . . 155
XVI. Appraisal.............................................................. 160
Bibliography............................ ..... ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Index. ................................... ............... ......................... 173