Identify the challenges faced by Christian missionaries in carrying out their activities in Africa during the nineteenth century.
Answer:
- Tropical diseases such as Malaria which claimed many lives of missionaries and scared other who gave up and returned home.
- Lack of adequate funds to finance missionary activities.
- Poor means of transport them to walk for long distances/ journeys difficult terrain.
- Language barrier hindered effective communication with the people.
- Harsh tropical climate made it difficult for the missionaries to perform their work effectively.
- Hostility of the African leaders or community who feared losing their control over the people as a result of conversion to Christianity.
- Hostility to slave traders who saw Christianity as a threw to their trading activities.
- Opposition from Muslim dominated areas Where Christianity posed a threat to the Islamic faith.
- Opposition from the Africans who saw Christianity as a threat to their traditional religion and cultural values/ practices.
- The missionaries were few in number to reach many people.
- Conflicts between various Christian groups.
- Danger posed by wild animals eg snakes.
- Shortage medicine water and food.
- Theft of medicine and their supplies.
- Desertion by potters, guards/ loneliness.
- Lack of adequate funds to finance missionary activities.
- Poor means of transport them to walk for long distances/ journeys difficult terrain.
- Language barrier hindered effective communication with the people.
- Harsh tropical climate made it difficult for the missionaries to perform their work effectively.
- Hostility of the African leaders or community who feared losing their control over the people as a result of conversion to Christianity.
- Hostility to slave traders who saw Christianity as a threw to their trading activities.
- Opposition from Muslim dominated areas Where Christianity posed a threat to the Islamic faith.
- Opposition from the Africans who saw Christianity as a threat to their traditional religion and cultural values/ practices.
- The missionaries were few in number to reach many people.
- Conflicts between various Christian groups.
- Danger posed by wild animals eg snakes.
- Shortage medicine water and food.
- Theft of medicine and their supplies.
- Desertion by potters, guards/ loneliness.
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