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Title: | Missionary work and African society: James Booth in Tonko Limba |
Author: | Turay, E. Amadu |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Africana Research Bulletin |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 36-55 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | missionary history biographies (form) |
Abstract: | The work of James Booth, a missionary turned trader in Tonko Limba Country in Sierra Leone (where he arrived in 1879 and died in 1892), gives an indication of the influence an African culture can wield on European missionaries in pre-colonial Africa. Attempts by the missionaries to pursue their activities vigorously often involved a need to get to grips with the culture of the societies involved. Some of them, in the process, became endeared to the people they worked among, often to the dissatisfaction of their superiors. The ensuing difficulties took different forms and the case of Booth typifies one such. Notes. |