ISSN 2756-3405
African Journal of Philosophy and Religious Studies ISSN 2756-3405 Vol. 10 (2), pp. 001-008, February, 2024. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals
Review
Christian Missions in Bakunduland, Cameroon: A Comprehensive Study from 1873 to 1960
Joseph Ebune Betoto
Department of history, faculty of arts, university of Buea, P O Box 63 Cameroon.
E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted 20 October, 2023
Abstract
This paper is a historical analysis of Missionary activities in Bakunduland in the southwest region of Cameroon in the 18th and 19th Centuries. These activities such as Christian proselytization, Western education, health care took place in a context of opposition from the Bakundu local population. This opposition can be explained as a from of resistance to what was perceived by Western colonists and missionary officials as a civilizing mission, and by the same token considered traditional culture of the Bakundu inferior. As a result of these missionary activities, the Bakundu society was transformed. But this transformation was never complete for as the paper highlights, there is a blend of Western and African cultures expressed in syncretism, a situation that still prevails among the Bakundu.
Keywords: Missionary, Bakunduland, Evangelization, Culture.