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The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa calls into question a number of common assumptions about the encounter between European missionaries and African societies in colonial Kenya. The book explores the origins of those communities associated with the Anglican Church Missionary Society from 1875 to 1935, examines the development within them of a "mission culture," probes their internal conflicts and tensions, and details their relationship to the larger colonial society. Professor Strayer argues that genuinely religious issues were important in the formation of these communities, that missionaries were ambivalent in their attitudes toward modernizing change and the colonial state alike, and that mission communities possessed substantial attractions even in the face of competition with independent churches. Dr. John Lonsdale of Trinity College, Cambridge has said that "It is a sensitive piece of revisionist history which breaks down the simple dichotomy of 'missions' and 'Africans' commonly found in earlier historiographies--and even in the period of profound crisis over female circumcision in Kikuyuland. In this, Professor Strayer shows convincingly how mission communities could be preserved from destruction by principled divisions between Africans as much as between their white missionaries. He has pursued themes rather than events and has therefore been able to make remarkably intimate observations of mission communities which were following their own internal patterns of growth, yet within the context of a deepening situation of colonial dependence.
"This book constitutes the first comprehensive record of manuscripts and documents in Western languages, together with a number of African languages, in the British Isles, which have relevance to Africa south of the Sahara.".
The primary concern of this book is the repatriation pattern in the former slave communities of Freretown and Rabai, located on the East Coast of Kenya. These communities were established by Africans liberated from slavery in Arabia, India, East Africa itself, and some freed from slave dhows in the Indian Ocean and by other Africans who returned from the diaspora and became repatriates. This study attempts to reconstruct the history of the origin and development of the communities of Freretown and Rabai in Kenya, to assess the role of those settler communities as agents of social and cultural change, and to evaluate their influence on the history of Kenya.