Archive of a Ugandan Missionary - Writings By and About Revd Apolo Kivebulaya, 1890s-1950s

Reverend Apolo Kivebulaya was a clergyman in the Native Anglican Church of Uganda, becoming a teacher after his 1895 baptism. His writing illustrates a literate Christian identity formed away from centres of power, while oral and written accounts about him show the responses of African admirers and how Christianity influenced their societies.

List of contents

• List of maps and photographs


• Acknowledgements


• Glossary


• Timeline


• Introduction


• 1: Kivebulaya's autobiography


• 2: Kivebulaya's diaries


• 3: Kivebulaya's correspondence


• 4: Kivebulaya's journal contributions


• 5: Unpublished biographies on Kivebulaya


• 6: Oral accounts of Kivebulaya's life in Mboga


• 7: Journal articles about Kivebulaya


• 8: Sources


• Index

About the author

Emma Wild-Wood is Senior Lecturer in African Christianity and African Indigenous Religions in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity. Previously Wild-Wood taught in Bunia in DR Congo and in central Uganda. Wild-Wood directed the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and lectured in the University of Cambridge. Most recently she has written, The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Change in the Great Lakes of Africa, (2021).

George Mpanga is an independent researcher based in Kampala, and the founder of George Mpanga and Associates, a company dealing in all kinds of research.

Summary

Reverend Apolo Kivebulaya was a clergyman in the Native Anglican Church of Uganda, becoming a teacher after his 1895 baptism. His writing illustrates a literate Christian identity formed away from centres of power, while oral and written accounts about him show the responses of African admirers and how Christianity influenced their societies.

Additional text

A valuable record.

Product details

• Assisted by: George Mpanga (Translation), Emma Wild-Wood (Translation), George Mpanga (Editor and translation), Emma Wild-Wood (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2021
• EAN: 9780197267233
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726723-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Fontes Historiae Africanae
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Uganda, Diaries, letters & journals, RELIGION / Christian Education / General, 20th Century, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, HISTORY / Africa / General, Christian life & practice, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, African History, Christian life and practice, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1890 to c 1899, Anglican and Episcopalian Churches, Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England