In Two Minds? African Experience and Preferment in umca and the Journey to Independence in Tanganyika
This paper examines the role the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (umca) played in the move towards independence in Tanganyika. It sees a paradox at the heart of the Society’s work and mission in its apparent affirmation of African experience but its seeming failure to promote African leaders...
| Published in: | Mission studies |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
2016
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| In: |
Mission studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tanganjika
/ Tanzania
/ Anglican Church
/ Universities' Mission to Central Africa
/ History 1961-1995
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDE Anglican Church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Universities’ Mission to Central Africa
Frank Weston
Vincent Lucas
ujamaa
Anglican
Tanganyika
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| Summary: | This paper examines the role the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (umca) played in the move towards independence in Tanganyika. It sees a paradox at the heart of the Society’s work and mission in its apparent affirmation of African experience but its seeming failure to promote African leadership. However, the lack of ecclesiastical preferment, due in part to circumstances beyond the control of the Society, could not quench its support for the value of African experience. Indeed, Christians formed in the umca tradition would go on to take key roles in government before and after independence, and eventually help to build a national church, the Church of the Province of Tanganyika (now the Anglican Church of Tanzania), which would embrace the African philosophy of Ujamaa (Unity) over narrow Anglo-Catholicism. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341466 |