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African Independent Churches and Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Harold W. Turner
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To think of the planting of Christianity in Africa and the work of missions and churches is to think of schools, of these agencies ‘throwing across tropical Africa their gigantic fishing net of primary and secondary schools’. And to think of the African peoples themselves over the past century is to recall the swelling demand for education above almost everything else. Back in 1902 this was well expressed in the exhortation of King Lewanika to his Lozi council: ‘Marotse, leave your shades, abandon our paganism. Send your children to school so that we also can become a nation.’ The school has undoubtedly been the most universally appreciated Christian contribution to black Africa over the past century and more.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1975 , pp. 295 - 308
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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