Briefly discuss any four of the challenges faced by the missionaries and the remedies to the problems which they came up with to solve the...

      

Briefly discuss any four of the challenges faced by the missionaries and the remedies to the problems which they came up with to solve the problems

  

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Dana
The missionaries were attacked by tropical diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness and some of them died while others gave up. The missionaries dealt with these problem by establishing health centers where western medicine was administered to cure and control diseases
There was no roads, railways and vehicles and all distance was to be covered by foot. To solve this problem, the missionaries pioneered the construction of roads to their missionaries. This enabled them to receive supplies from their home countries
The missionaries did not understand the local languages and this slowed down their work. To deal with this problem, African converts were used to spread the gospel and the missionaries learnt Kiswahili which they used in their work since it was widely used by the communities at the coast and some communities in the interior
Some of the missionary teachings were in conflict with some of the traditional African practices. Some communities thus resisted their teachings vehemently. The missionaries therefore used services such as education and healthcare to entice the communities.

Dana05 answered the question on May 19, 2019 at 19:29


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