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THE COLONIAL MISUNDERSTANDING (Le malentendu colonial)

THE COLONIAL MISUNDERSTANDING (Le malentendu colonial)

" When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible."
– Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first elected Prime Minister and President

In The Colonial Misunderstanding, Jean-Marie Teno sheds light on the complex and problematic relationship between colonization and European missionaries on the African continent.

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THE COLONIAL MISUNDERSTANDING (Le malentendu colonial)
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    The Colonial Misunderstanding

    The Colonial Misunderstanding

    Le Malentendu colonial / The Colonial Misunderstanding examines Christian evangelism as the forerunner of European colonialism in Africa, and as the ideological model North-South relationships. On the occasion of the centenary of the1904 German genocide of the Herero people, it notably considers ...

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