By Tomas Sundnes Dronen
Used to be sleek Christian project to Africa essentially a colonial undertaking and a civilizing challenge or used to be it a religious revival spreading to new components? This booklet tells the story of the Dii humans in northern Cameroon and describes their come upon with Norwegian missionaries. via archival stories and during fieldwork one of the Dii, an exciting situation is gifted. while the missionaries describe their venture as one among religious liberation, and the Dii highligt the social liberation they got via literacy and political independence, the writer indicates how either non secular and social alterations have been result of captivation, miscommunication and relentless negotiations among the 2 events.
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I also argue that the Dii were in a position to negotiate the terms of this conversation, thus making the conversation more of a dialogue, even if it was on uneven terms, than colonisation of Dii consciousness or colonial evangelism. Communication, Discourse, Translatability and Worldview Having stated that this is a historical study, it must be added that a wide range of theoretical approaches have been used in order to shed light on different aspects of the encounter between Dii and the mission.
14 chapter one discourse is always limited to the context that accepts its shape. When Norwegian missionaries condemned Dii religious practices, their discourse was without influence until the Dii decided to accept the terms of the conversation, and consequently the context of the discourse. The Dii, on the other hand, created a new discourse that borrowed elements from the missionary spiritual discourse, but applied it to a different context, one of social oppression. A discourse is thus not limited to the leadership of a given society, but subgroups might create discourses that will invent and maintain an ideology of resistance, visualised in this study through the Dii discourse that presents Dii history as a constant struggle against the supremacy of the Fulbe.
Njeuma and Eldrige Mohammadou have initiated a regional search for historical roots through detailed studies of the arrival of the Fulbe and their relationship to other ethnic groups (Njeuma 1978; 1989; Mohammadou 1978; 1979; 1981; 1990). Different case studies belonging to the same region have lately seen the light of day through the efforts of FALSH,10 describing both the history of important Fulbe personalities, the kirdi groups, and important religious leaders (Bah 1998). Hamadou Adama’s presentation of the history of Islam in the region also contains a short section on the relationship between Islam and the Christian mission (Adama 2004).
