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Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa
Historical Legacies and Contemporary Hybridities
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Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa provides scholarly, interdisciplinary analysis of the historical and contemporary relationships, links and networks between Scotland, Africa and the African diaspora. The book interrogates these links from a variety of perspectives – historical, political, economic, religious, diplomatic, and cultural – and assesses the mutual implications for past, present and future relationships. The socio-historical connection between Scotland and Africa is illuminated by the many who have shaped the history of African nationalism, education, health, and art in respective contexts of Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and the USA. The book contributes to the empirical, theoretical and methodological development of European African Studies, and thus fills a significant gap in information, interpretation and analysis of the specific historical and contemporary relationships between Scotland, Africa and the African diaspora.
Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Andrew Lawrence, Esther Breitenbach, John McCracken, Markku Hokkanen, Olutayo Charles Adesina, Marika Sherwood, Caroline Bressey, Janice McLean, Everlyn Nicodemus, Kristian Romare, Oluwakemi Adesina, Elijah Obinna, Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Kweku Michael Okyerefo, Musa Gaiya and Jordan Rengshwat, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa, Kenneth Ross, Magnus Echtler, and Geoff Palmer.
Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Andrew Lawrence, Esther Breitenbach, John McCracken, Markku Hokkanen, Olutayo Charles Adesina, Marika Sherwood, Caroline Bressey, Janice McLean, Everlyn Nicodemus, Kristian Romare, Oluwakemi Adesina, Elijah Obinna, Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Kweku Michael Okyerefo, Musa Gaiya and Jordan Rengshwat, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa, Kenneth Ross, Magnus Echtler, and Geoff Palmer.
Biographical Note
Afe Adogame, Ph.D. (1998), University of Bayreuth, Germany, teaches Religious Studies and World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His latest book publication is:
The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).
Andrew Lawrence, Ph.D. (2003), City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, teaches globalization and international organization at the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria. His latest book publication is: Employer and Worker and Collective Action: A Comparative Study of Germany, South Africa, and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Andrew Lawrence, Ph.D. (2003), City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, teaches globalization and international organization at the Vienna School of International Studies, Austria. His latest book publication is: Employer and Worker and Collective Action: A Comparative Study of Germany, South Africa, and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Table of contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence
HISTORICAL UNDERPINNINGS
Chapter 1: Scottish Encounters with Africa in the nineteenth century: Accounts of Explorers, Travellers, and Missionaries
Esther Breitenbach
Chapter 2: Missionaries and Nationalists: Scotland and the 1959 State Of Emergency in Malawi
John McCracken
MEDICINE AND MISSION
Chapter 3: Missionaries, Experts and Agents of Empire: Scottish Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century Southern and East-Central Africa
Markku Hokkanen
Chapter 4: Between Colonialism and Cultural Authenticity: Isaac Ladipo Oluwole, Oladele Adebayo Ajose, Public Health Services in
Nigeria, and the Glasgow Connection
Olutayo Charles Adesina
ACTIVISTS, VISIONARIES, ARTISTS
Chapter 5: Two Pan-African Political Activists emanating from University Of Edinburgh: John Randle and Richard Akinwande Savage
Marika Sherwood
Chapter 6: Ida B. Wells in Scotland
Caroline Bressey
Chapter 7: Exploring a Scottish Legacy: Lewis Davidson, Knox College and Jamaica’s Youth
Janice McLean
Chapter 8: Robert S. Duncanson, an African American Pioneer Artist with links to Scotland
Everlyn Nicodemus and Kristian Romare
MISSION AND TRANSMISSION: RELIGIOUS LEGACIES
Chapter 9: Invoking Gender: Mary Slessor’s Thoughts, Mission and Legacies
Oluwakemi Adesina and Elijah Obinna
Chapter 10: Pentecostalising the Church of Scotland? Kenyan Presbyterianism in Historical Perspective
Damaris Seleina Parsitau
Chapter 11: Scottish Missionaries in Ghana: The Forgotten Tribe
Kweku Michael Okyerefo
Chapter 12: Scottish Missionaries in Central Nigeria
Musa Gaiya and Jordan Rengshwat
Chapter 13: “She Worships at the Kikuyu”: The Influence of Scottish Missionaries on Language in Worship and Education among African Christians
Vicky Khasandi-Telewa
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 14: ‘A Very Definite Radicalism’: The Early Development of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership 2004-08
Kenneth Ross
Chapter 15: Scottish Warriors in Kwazulu-Natal. Cultural Hermeneutics of the Scottish Dancers (Isikoshi) In the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa
Magnus Echtler
Postscript The Scottish – Jamaica Historical Connection
Geoff Palmer
Index
Introduction
Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence
HISTORICAL UNDERPINNINGS
Chapter 1: Scottish Encounters with Africa in the nineteenth century: Accounts of Explorers, Travellers, and Missionaries
Esther Breitenbach
Chapter 2: Missionaries and Nationalists: Scotland and the 1959 State Of Emergency in Malawi
John McCracken
MEDICINE AND MISSION
Chapter 3: Missionaries, Experts and Agents of Empire: Scottish Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century Southern and East-Central Africa
Markku Hokkanen
Chapter 4: Between Colonialism and Cultural Authenticity: Isaac Ladipo Oluwole, Oladele Adebayo Ajose, Public Health Services in
Nigeria, and the Glasgow Connection
Olutayo Charles Adesina
ACTIVISTS, VISIONARIES, ARTISTS
Chapter 5: Two Pan-African Political Activists emanating from University Of Edinburgh: John Randle and Richard Akinwande Savage
Marika Sherwood
Chapter 6: Ida B. Wells in Scotland
Caroline Bressey
Chapter 7: Exploring a Scottish Legacy: Lewis Davidson, Knox College and Jamaica’s Youth
Janice McLean
Chapter 8: Robert S. Duncanson, an African American Pioneer Artist with links to Scotland
Everlyn Nicodemus and Kristian Romare
MISSION AND TRANSMISSION: RELIGIOUS LEGACIES
Chapter 9: Invoking Gender: Mary Slessor’s Thoughts, Mission and Legacies
Oluwakemi Adesina and Elijah Obinna
Chapter 10: Pentecostalising the Church of Scotland? Kenyan Presbyterianism in Historical Perspective
Damaris Seleina Parsitau
Chapter 11: Scottish Missionaries in Ghana: The Forgotten Tribe
Kweku Michael Okyerefo
Chapter 12: Scottish Missionaries in Central Nigeria
Musa Gaiya and Jordan Rengshwat
Chapter 13: “She Worships at the Kikuyu”: The Influence of Scottish Missionaries on Language in Worship and Education among African Christians
Vicky Khasandi-Telewa
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 14: ‘A Very Definite Radicalism’: The Early Development of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership 2004-08
Kenneth Ross
Chapter 15: Scottish Warriors in Kwazulu-Natal. Cultural Hermeneutics of the Scottish Dancers (Isikoshi) In the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa
Magnus Echtler
Postscript The Scottish – Jamaica Historical Connection
Geoff Palmer
Index
Readership
The book highlights little-known areas of Africa and Scotland's interrelationships, and will appeal to academics, policy makers and professionals with interest in Africa, the African diaspora, the history of medicine, migration, mission, colonial and postcolonial studies, and Scotland and Europe.