2.Of, relating to, or being the time in the history of a people or region before its conversion to Christianity or the beginning of Christian influence on it. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Compa...
Response to Christianity in Pre-colonial and Colonial Africa: Some Ulterior Motivesdoi:10.1163/157338387X00041Friday M. MbonMission StudiesMbon, Friday. 1987. "Response to Christianity in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa: Some Ulterior Motives." Mission Studies 4(1):42-54....
Proto according to Pearson (2001), means first in time or order before other things of the same kind are developed. Proto writing therefore, means first form of script or writing before other forms of writing developed. The idea of script in Africa cuts across pre-colonial period, colonial ...
Burying the Dead and Religious Diversification in 21st Century Chile: Christianity and Modernity in a Contested Topology the colonial Spanish period in Chile (1541-1910, that took place at the end of the 19th century with the foundation of the Santiago General Cemetery. ... Mario I. Aguilar -...
According to this view, British-American slavery operated as a "school for civilization" (Phillips, 1918) that rescued savages from the jungles of Africa and exposed them to Christianity and Western civilization. Some argued that slavery was benevolent because it protected slaves from the evils and...
(Tokyo), Uchiyama noted the ability of archaeology to study animal usage not mentioned in historical records. He also emphasised the importance of the political context of animal usage, suggesting a relationship between limits on meat-eating and the suppression of Christianity in the early ...
Other attractions to the period include the spread of Christianity, the emergence of the new elite, British conquest, etc. One of the problems created by this shift in the direction of historical scholarship in contemporary Africa is perhaps the obvious lack of synergy between the nineteenth ...
Eastern Africa - Precolonial, Tribes, Trade: The coast was never more than East Africa’s fringe. Beyond the harsh nyika, or wilderness, which lay immediately inland and was nowhere pierced by a long, navigable river, thornbush country extended to the so
Benin - Precolonial, Colonial, Independence: As a political unit, Benin was created by the French colonial conquest at the end of the 19th century. In the precolonial period, the territory comprised a multiplicity of independent states, differing in lang
Proto according to Pearson (2001), means first in time or order before other things of the same kind are developed. Proto writing therefore, means first form of script or writing before other forms of writing developed. The idea of script in Africa cuts ac...