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| Title: | French Missionaries and British Treaties in Southern Africa, 1830-1900 |
| Author: | Holmes, Timothy |
| Year: | 1993-1994 |
| Periodical: | Zambia Journal of History |
| Issue: | 6-7 |
| Pages: | 1-24 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Southern Africa Great Britain |
| Subjects: | missions colonialism Religion and Witchcraft History and Exploration History, Archaeology history Missionaries imperialism |
| Abstract: | Two streams of French-speaking missionaries, one Protestant, the other Catholic, played a noticeable part in the establishment of British rule over the countries known today as Lesotho and Zambia. The first stream sprang from the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, the second from the White Fathers. The fact that they were French and that they had no obvious links with the Boers or the British, enabled these two groups to play a prominent role as mediators between independent African States and the incoming colonial power. The evidence suggests that the missionaries were welcomed by black rulers, who felt threatened by either the expansionist Boers of the Cape Colony, or by the Nguni irruptions, and who assigned the missionaries political duties. The author looks at three cases of such missionary diplomatic activity in 19th-century southern Africa: Eugène Casalis and Adolphe Mabille amongst the Sotho; Francois Coillard amongst the Lozi of the Zambezi; and Father Joseph Dupont, who mediated between the Bemba and the British South Africa Company. Notes, ref. (This article first appeared in French in 'La France et l'Afrique du Sud: histoire, mythes et enjeux contemporains' (Paris [etc.], 1990), ed. by Daniel C. Bach.) |