From the arrival of the missionaries in 1844 to the outbreak of the Anglo-Zulu war in 1879, the results of the Norwegian missionary enterprise in Zululand were meagre. The British annexation of Zululand changed the ...

The Lutheran Norwegian Missionary Society (NMS) sent in 1844 its first missionaries to the Zulus. The NMS’ goal was to establish native churches which become self-supporting, self-governing and self-propagating. This ...

Six couples of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) arrived in Natal, southeast Africa in 1835 – three from north of the Mason-Dixie Line and three from the south – all six indelibly etched ...

The paper discusses the influence of church and mission in Norwegian politics during the nineteenth century. Norway, a rather small country by European standards, was a major missionary provider in Zululand. The influence ...