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White Fathers materials in the London area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

David P. Henige
David P. Henige*
Affiliation:
Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham
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From the foundation of the order in Algiers in 1868 the White Fathers (more properly Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa) focussed their efforts on Africa. Although the first missions were established in the Kabyle Mountains and the Sahara the professed long-term commitment was to the proselytization of black Africa. In 1878 the first White Fathers arrived in the Uganda region and in the course of the next fifty years the order established dioceses and Vicariates Apostolic throughout the continent but the greatest denisty of their stations always remained central Africa.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 2 , 1973 , pp. 18 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1973

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References

1 E.g., van der Burgt, J.M., Un grand peuple de l'Afrique equatoriale: Elements d'une monographic sur l'Urundi et les Warundi (Bois-le-Duc, 1903)Google Scholar; Lechaptois, Adolphe, Aux rives du Tanganika (Algiers, 1913)Google Scholar [Fipa and neighboring peoples]; Gorju, J-L, Entre le Victoria, l'Albert et l'Edouard (Rennes, 1920)Google Scholar [Buganda, Bunyoro, Nkore, Toro, Karagwe, ets.]; Pagès, Albert, Un royaume hamite au centre de l'Afrique (Brussels, 1933)Google Scholar [Rwanda]; de Lacqer, Louis, Le Ruanda ancien et moderne (Namur, 1938).Google Scholar

2 For a partial listing of the contributions of the White Fathers to African linguistics see Streit, R. and Dindinger, J. (eds.), Bibliotheca Missionum (28 vols.: Münster, 1916-71), 20: 451-75.Google Scholar

3 In this new format the publication was first called Grands Lacs, then Vivante Afrique, and finally Vivant Univers.

4 For an idea of the range and volume of this correspondence see Streit, and Dindinger, , Bibliotheca Missionum, 18Google Scholar: sub individual missionaries, 20: 248-475.

5 The White Fathers do maintain a general archives, now at Rome at Via Aurelia, 269. The archivist, Fr. Rene Lamey, has been most helpful in providing me with information and photocopies and he has issued a preliminary catalogue of manuscripts of ethnographic interest in the collection.