Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Writing history in the African context demands commitment; it must be contextual and integrally related to the mission of Christianity.This necessitates a reconsideration of historiography.The 'old' historiography was premised on the positive value accorded to missions and missionaries as well as a positive view of colonialism.The 'new' approach is eclectic and focuses on dispossessed communities.It predates the arrival of Western European civilisation and focuses on 'black' experience.All of this necessitates a consideration of ideology which has both positive and negative aspects. 1
Author: Graham A. Duncan
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W165173744