The Project with Natives American Agents of Jamaican Mission in Fernando Po: its Colonial Heritage
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Baptist Mission, Fernando Po, Native Agents.Abstract
Philip. J. Fisher’s play The Island Heritage. Episodes from the Missionary History of Fernando Poo, West Africa. A Play for Young People (1926) has remained unknown for the scholarly work on Equatorial Guinea. As I maintain in this article, the importance of this play rests also on the information she provides about the establishment of the Jamaican Baptist Missionary Society in Fernando Po between 1842 and 1845. Based on Bela Vassady (1979) and Dekar (2001) analysis, this article discuss the role of the Jamaican “native agents” on the Baptist Missionary project as well as its consequences for the colonial British expansion towards the African continent.Downloads
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