Missionaries and the Colonial State

Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial relationship between state and mission.

David Whitehouse is business editor at The Africa Report in Paris. He wrote In Search of Rwanda's Génocidaires (2014) and co-authored the autobiography of Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy (2013). He is now researching missionary impacts in colonial southeast Asia.

1. Lavigerie and the White Fathers 2. Initial Encounters to 1914 3. Caution in Burundi and the Overthrow of Musinga 4. Race, Nomadism and Agriculture 5. Education and Radicalism 6. Denominational Competition and Print Media 7. New Educational Futures 8. Regionalism Trumps Ethnicity 9. The Failure of Public Reasoning