Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy by B.B. Senokoane

“…This understanding and perception enabled missionaries to interpret the Bible in such a way that it disadvantaged and oppressed the “converts”. …”
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Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective by T. Shingange

“… The Western missionaries and colonialists pushed a similar agenda of subjugating the receptor’s core aspects of life. …”
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The Confession of King Gälawdewos (r. 1540–1559): A Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Monophysite Document against Jesuit Proselytism by Solomon Gebreyes Beyene

“…In the first phase, from 1555 to 1603, the missionaries undertook to convert King Gälawdewos and his court in return for military support from Portugal but had to face opposition from his successor, Minas (r.1559–1563). …”
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Editorial by I.D. Mothoagae

“…These hermeneutical lenses function as theoretical tools to analyse and grapple with the question of the strategies used by Western missionaries. The reception and transmission of the Bible in Africa was not an innocent enterprise. …”
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LEADING THEORIES IN AKWA IBOM COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY by Edet Efiong Okon

“…European scholars, missionaries, historians and scientists were dislodged to perfect Britain's ambitions in Akwa Ibom area through various ideological and pseudo-scientific postulations. …”
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Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei by L. Modise

“…Second, the article focuses on the way in which missionaries have taught African converts to interpret the Bible on many serious human rights issues. …”
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THE CONUNDRUM FACING CHRISTIAN TRADITIONAL LEADERS by SJ van der Merwe, OG Thebe

“…Volz (2008:112) concedes that, although European missionaries introduced Batswana to Christianity, they had hardly any control over how early Batswana converts perceived and adapted their teachings. …”
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The trajectories of Christianity and African ritual practices: the public silence and the dilemma of mainline or mission churches by L. Ntombana

“… In South Africa, there are mainly two Christian traditions on Christianity and African ritual practices. One being from missionaries and now mainly trailed by most white Mainline Churches and Pentecostal Churches. …”
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Emigration of South Africans to the West: Sociological and missiological implications by Christopher Magezi

“…The article dialogued with relevant literature to accomplish the proposed objective and provide an overview of the push and pull factors of why South Africans emigrate to the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States of America, New Zealand and many other countries, all of which used to send missionaries abroad, but they are now experiencing exponential growth in atheism. …”
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