From Sasstown to Zaria: Tom Coffee and the Kru Origins of the Soudan Interior Mission, 1893-1895
This article underscores the key role that Tom Coffee, an ethnic Kru migrant from Sasstown, Liberia, played in founding the Soudan Interior Mission (SIM). Coffee journeyed with Walter Gowans and Thomas Kent up into what is now northern Nigeria in 1894 to help establish SIM. Gowans and Kent died befo...
| Published in: | Studies in world christianity |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh Univ. Press
[2018]
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Studies in world christianity
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Sokoto Caliphate
B Wesleyan Methodist Church B Rowland Bingham B Tom Coffee B Soudan Interior Mission (SIM) B Methodist Episcopal Church B Walter Gowans B Kru |
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| Summary: | This article underscores the key role that Tom Coffee, an ethnic Kru migrant from Sasstown, Liberia, played in founding the Soudan Interior Mission (SIM). Coffee journeyed with Walter Gowans and Thomas Kent up into what is now northern Nigeria in 1894 to help establish SIM. Gowans and Kent died before they reached their destination, the walled city of Kano. SIM's other co-founder, Rowland Bingham, did not travel with his friends, and thus lived to tell his version of their story. By using materials written in the 1890s and secondary sources published more recently, this work provides new insights into SIM's first trip to Africa. The article begins by giving background information about the Kru and Sasstown and the impact that the Methodist Episcopal Church had on some of the people who lived in Sasstown after it established a mission there in 1889. Coffee's likely connection with the Methodist Church would have helped him understand the goal and strategy of his missionary employers. The article then disc... |
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| ISSN: | 1750-0230 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in world christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/swc.2018.0204 |