THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA DURING THE 19th century

Abstract

In the project below I shed light on the missionaries and their role in reshaping the African mind in many aspects, religious, social and economic. This topic has been dealt by a lot of historians and explorers such as and David Livingstone and Robert Moffat and fage during their journeys of exploration in the African continent ,they started to established them selves among the Africans by spreading the Christianity and convert the locals, but they refused the new doctrine and stoke to their traditional beliefs ,but the missionaries bring a new way of living which was little sophisticated comparing to African one the missionaries brought clothes and medicines and teach them languages ,in schools and churches were they built , Africa was called the land of mystery because it was rich of the gold and natural sources.