TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolfgang-Ulrich Fischer
PY  - 2013
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-1212
SN  - 9783035304817
TI  - Samuel Johnson of Yorubaland, 1846-1901
T2  - Identity, Change and the Making of the Mission Agent
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0481-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043672
N2  - This study aims to understand how the nineteenth-century African agent of mission appropriated change without losing cultural integrity. Drawing essentially from the contexts that produced the man, from Sierra Leone to the Yoruba country, the study shows Samuel Johnson as embodying the opportunities and ambivalence that progressively accompanied Yoruba contact with Britain in the people’s war-weary century of change. Largely influenced by German missionaries in the British mission environment of Yorubaland, Johnson had confidence in the bright prospect the missionary message held for his people. This propelled him into a struggle to relieve the distressed country from its woes and to preserve the fading memory of its people. In an age of renewed cultural ferment called globalization, could Johnson offer a lesson in how to appropriate change? This is the concern of this volume.
KW  - cultural integrity, memory, globalization, Multilevel Judicial Governance, Theory of the European Law, Global law, Application of law
LA  - German
ER  -