Converts and conservatives: missionary representations of African rulers in the Northern Transvaal, c. 1870-1900

Title: Converts and conservatives: missionary representations of African rulers in the Northern Transvaal, c. 1870-1900
Creator: Kirkaldy, Alan
Creator: Kriel, Lize
Date Issued: 2006
Date: 2006
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6146
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003715
Identifier: http://www2.unil.ch/lefaitmissionnaire/pages/tables_publi/lfm18_tbl.htm
Description: During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Berlin Mission Society made strenuous efforts to convert the rulers of the people in whose areas they worked in the Northern Transvaal. In this they were largely unsuccessful. This raises questions about what forces influenced success and failure, and how the missionaries interpreted this. In this article, we interrogate the Berlin Missions Society’s accounts of the life and death of August Makhahane, a ruler of the Vhavenda who converted to Christianity, against the background of the accounts dealing with Matsiokwane Leboho, a ruler of the Bahananwa who did not convert. Through such a comparison, we aim at exploring the contrasted ways in which the Berlin missionaries reported about the two rulers.
Format: 36 leaves
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Kirkaldy, Alan & Kriel, Lize. 2006. LFM. Social Sciences & Missions. July 2006, number 18. http://www2.unil.ch/lefaitmissionnaire/pages/tables_publi/lfm18_tbl.htm
Rights: Dr Kirkaldy has permission from the co-author (UP) and from the journal

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RU Department of History

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