HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Question
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What did missionaries want to do in Africa?
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Take over the land.
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Make Africans become Christians.
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Take Africa’s food.
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Take Africa’s inventions back to Europe.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The desire of the missionaries was that the Africans abandon their religion and culture and adopt western religion and culture, which they hoped would facilitate the extension of colonialism. The motive was, therefore, to prepare the Africans mentally for the takeover by colonizers (Magorian 1964:17).
Detailed explanation-2: -Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom’s official religion.
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