The making of an African missionary hero in the English biographies of Apolo Kivebulaya (1923-1936)

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Title:	The making of an African missionary hero in the English biographies of Apolo Kivebulaya (1923-1936)
Author:	Wild-Wood, Emma
Year:	2010
Periodical:	Journal of Religion in Africa (ISSN 0022-4200)
Volume:	40
Issue:	3
Pages:	273-306
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Congo (Democratic Republic of) Uganda
Subjects:	missionary history biography
About persons:	Apolo Kivebulaya (c.1864-1933) Albert B. Lloyd
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1163/157006610X527758
Abstract:	Apolo Kivebulaya was a well-respected Ganda priest who, beginning in the 1890s, established Anglican churches in Toro, Uganda, and in the Boga area of what is now eastern Congo. A Church Missionary Society (CMS) colleague, A.B. Lloyd, wrote three popular biographies of Apolo for a British readership that inspired the writing of others. This article examines the style and content of Lloyd's biographies and explores the factors that influenced them, including Keswick (Bible convention) spirituality and boys' adventure stories. It demonstrates early twentieth-century expectations of missionary heroism, and suggests that the way in which Apolo has been read in the past has influenced his relative neglect in the present. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]