Social thoughts and medical missionaries in Yorubaland, 1900-1930
The missionaries were the forerunners of colonization in Africa and elsewhere. They shared the same burden with their colonial allies, which included Christianity, Commerce and, Civilisation. This thesis examines how the activities of medical missionaries shaped indigenous medical thoughts of Yorub...
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| author | Olusola Bamidele Ojo* Tahir Kamran Dr Huma Pervaiz |
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| description | The missionaries were the forerunners of colonization in Africa and elsewhere. They shared the same burden with their colonial allies, which included Christianity, Commerce and, Civilisation. This thesis examines how the activities of medical missionaries shaped indigenous medical thoughts of Yoruba land in the early twentieth century. By analyzing relevant primary and secondary sources, this thesis discovered that the deployment of medical factors to Christianise the Yorubas provoked a loss of trust in indigenous medicine and other cultural practices in early twentieth-century South West Nigeria. It, therefore, argues that missionaries played a substantial role in engendering adverse social thoughts of Yoruba medicine. Other research had focused on the social impacts of medical missions on Yoruba people without delineating how this impacted the social thoughts of the populations from colonial intercourse. A study of this caliber would throw new light on the interplay between the missionaries and colonial medicine in the contexts of colonized societies. It would further illuminate new understandings of the social role of medical missionaries of local populations.
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| spelling | doaj-art-5fe807887be84db089f8ffd29429b33e2025-08-20T02:40:40ZengInternational Educational and Social Sciences Association (IESSA)Journal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities2413-92702024-06-01102109122Social thoughts and medical missionaries in Yorubaland, 1900-1930 Olusola Bamidele Ojo* 0Tahir Kamran 1 Dr Huma Pervaiz 2Health Care Agency, Ministry of Health, Seychelles Email: ojoolusola302@gmail.comBeaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan . Government College University Lahore, PakistanThe missionaries were the forerunners of colonization in Africa and elsewhere. They shared the same burden with their colonial allies, which included Christianity, Commerce and, Civilisation. This thesis examines how the activities of medical missionaries shaped indigenous medical thoughts of Yoruba land in the early twentieth century. By analyzing relevant primary and secondary sources, this thesis discovered that the deployment of medical factors to Christianise the Yorubas provoked a loss of trust in indigenous medicine and other cultural practices in early twentieth-century South West Nigeria. It, therefore, argues that missionaries played a substantial role in engendering adverse social thoughts of Yoruba medicine. Other research had focused on the social impacts of medical missions on Yoruba people without delineating how this impacted the social thoughts of the populations from colonial intercourse. A study of this caliber would throw new light on the interplay between the missionaries and colonial medicine in the contexts of colonized societies. It would further illuminate new understandings of the social role of medical missionaries of local populations. http://www.jssshonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/JSSSH_Vol.10_No.2_2024_109-122_Sr.-No.4.pdfmissionariessouth west nigeriayorubaindigenousmedical missionyoruba medicine |
| spellingShingle | Olusola Bamidele Ojo* Tahir Kamran Dr Huma Pervaiz Social thoughts and medical missionaries in Yorubaland, 1900-1930 Journal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities missionaries south west nigeria yoruba indigenous medical mission yoruba medicine |
| title | Social thoughts and medical missionaries in Yorubaland, 1900-1930 |
| title_full | Social thoughts and medical missionaries in Yorubaland, 1900-1930 |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Social thoughts and medical missionaries in Yorubaland, 1900-1930 |
| title_short | Social thoughts and medical missionaries in Yorubaland, 1900-1930 |
| title_sort | social thoughts and medical missionaries in yorubaland 1900 1930 |
| topic | missionaries south west nigeria yoruba indigenous medical mission yoruba medicine |
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