In two minds? African experience and preferment in UMCA and the journey to independence in Tanganyika

Title: In two minds? African experience and preferment in UMCA and the journey to independence in Tanganyika
Creator: Mndowla, Maimbo W.; King, Fergus J.
Relation: Mission Studies Vol. 33, Issue 3, p. 327-351
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341466
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: This paper examines the role the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) played in the move towards independence in Tanganyika. It sees a paradox at the heart of the Society's work and mission in its apparent affirmation of African experience but its seeming failure to promote African leadership. However, the lack of ecclesiastical preferment, due in part to circumstances beyond the control of the Society, could not quench its support for the value of African experience. Indeed, Christians formed in the UMCA tradition would go on to take key roles in government before and after independence, and eventually help to build a national church, the Church of the Province of Tanganyika (now the Anglican Church of Tanzania), which would embrace the African philosophy of Ujamaa (Unity) over narrow Anglo-Catholicism.
Subject: Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA); Tanganyika; Anglican; ujamaa; Frank Weston; Vincent Lucas
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325130
Identifier: uon:25189
Identifier: ISSN:0168-9789
Language: eng
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