The Ijaye War of 1860-62: a political cankerworm of early Baptist missionary enterprise in Yorubaland, Nigeria

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Title:	The Ijaye War of 1860-62: a political cankerworm of early Baptist missionary enterprise in Yorubaland, Nigeria
Author:	Ajayi, S. Ademola
Year:	2007
Periodical:	Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies
Volume:	39
Issue:	1
Pages:	1-12
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	missions Baptist Church civil wars Yoruba polities Ijaye polity 1860-1869
Abstract:	The Baptist Mission was among the first set of Christian denominations to arrive in Yorubaland, Nigeria. The Mission's activities commenced there in 1850 under the auspices of the Southern Baptist Convention of the United States of America and the basis upon which the future growth of the Mission was to rest had been fairly solidly laid when, in 1860, the civil wars in Yorubaland shook the very foundation of Baptist enterprise. The genesis of these political upheavals can be traced to the demise of the Old Oyo Empire and the attempts of the successor States, particularly Ijaye and Ibadan, to fill the power vacuum. Based on primary sources such as newspapers, diaries, letters and journals by missionaries, supplemented by secondary sources, this paper sketches the ways in which the 1860-1862 Ijaye War and its aftermath affected Baptist missionary activities in Yorubaland. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]