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“Therefore Go and Make Disciples of all Nations”

by Tinko Weibezahl

The Significance of Christian Mission Schools for the Education of the African Elite

Around 1960, a time when many African countries were trying to gain independence, the world for the first time took notice of a generation of African politicians who stepped out of the shadow of colonialism to conceive and set up post-colonial societies. Men like Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, Leopold Senghor and Robert Mugabe, despite all their differences in terms of nationalities and ideologies, had one thing in common: all of them were educated in Christian mission schools.

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