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Missionaries and the Colonial State: Radicalism and Governance in Rwanda and Burundi, 1900-1972

Missionaries and the Colonial State: Radicalism and Governance in Rwanda and Burundi, 1900-1972

Whitehouse, David

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

African History20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0367704013
ISBN13: 9780367704018
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 12 2022
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission.

The archives of the White Fathers Catholic missionary order in Rome and Paris are read alongside primary sources produced by the British Protestant Church Missionary Society to analyse their impact between 1900 and 1972 in Rwanda and Burundi. The colonial state was weaker than often assumed, and permeable by external radical influences. Denominational competition between Catholic and Protestant missionaries was a key motor of this radicalism. The colonial state in both kingdoms was a weak, reactive agent rather than a structuring form of power. This volume shows that missionaries were more committed and influential actors, but their inability to manage the mass demand for the education that they sought and delivered finally undermined the achievement of their aims.

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