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Volume 13, Numéro 1, Pages 599-626
2024-03-30
On The ‘lobbying’ Of The Christian Missionaries In The British Colonial Project Rethinking The Civilising Mission In The Gold Coast: The Colonial Curriculum At The Crossroads
Authors : Aissat Djamila . Snouci Mberbech Faiza .
Abstract
Intended to ensure progress through Western education, the civilizing mission had ended up in the massive exploitation of the natives, drifting them as productive force into capitalism and colonization. Seemingly, missionaries ’education had played a significant role in the thinking of imperial curriculum. However, their lobbying in the British colonial project triggers the curiosity of many scholars. The question that raises itself by now is whether the Christian missionaries were part of the lobbying which was backed up by the social Darwinists’ racial views that facilitated the feasibility of the civilising mission. This article teases the concurrent paradox that had not only amplified the philanthropic actions of the nineteenth century missions, setting the ground ripe for colonisation, but had also exacerbated the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’ imperialism. It seeks to demonstrate how the missionaries’ activism, mainly in education, was a curse in disguise in the Gold Coast. This study revealed how through a suitably designed curriculum that surved the greedy interests of the British in this territory, the Christian missionaries had proved that they were part of the lobbying which had backed up the nineteenth century social Darwinism that had justified imperial and powerful countries’ sovereignty over less fortunate peoples for human advantage.
Keywords
Colonialism, Christian missionaries, lobbying, native education, race, Social Darwinism
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