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Prelude to m’zungu colonisation of Africa

"Veni, Vidi,"

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Egypt (1825) and Ethiopia (1827): Five missionaries were sent to Egypt in 1825. The CMS

concentrated the Mediterranean Mission on the Coptic Church and in 1830 to its
daughter Ethiopian Church, which included the creation of a translation of the Bible in

Amharic at the instigation of William Jowett, as well as the posting of two missionaries
to Ethiopia (Abyssinia), Samuel Gobat (later the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem) and
Christian Kugler arrived in that country in 1827.

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South Africa (1837): Captain Allen Francis Gardiner R.N. obtained the permission of

Dingaan, a Zulu chief, to establish a CMS mission.

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East Africa (1844): The Revd Johann Ludwig Krapf was in Abyssinia, however when the

missionaries were forced out, he moved to Mombasa. CMS missionaries, such as Krapf
and the Revd Johannes Rebmann, explored East and Central Africa, with Rebmann being
the first European to reach Mount Kilimanjaro (1848) and Krapf was the first to reach

Mount Kenya (1849).The East Africa Mission was revived in 1874 and extended to inland,
Uganda (1877) and Tanganyika (1878). In 1877, Alexander Mackay established a mission

in the historical kingdom of Buganda, now part of Uganda. On 29 October 1885, Kabaka
Mwanga II had the incoming Anglican bishop James Hannington assassinated on the
eastern border of his kingdom and he also ordered the execution of Christian converts

among his people. Later, the Uganda mission was centered at Kampala and was led by
missionary brothers Albert Ruskin Cook and John Howard Cook. Missions were later

established in Rwanda.
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Mauritius (1854): Bishop Vincent W Ryan was appointed the bishop of Mauritius in 1854

and the same year the Revd David Fenn established a mission station

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Madagascar (1863): Two CMS missionaries operated a mission station from 1863 until
their deaths in 1864.

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Tanzania (1864): The Universities' Mission to Central Africa and the Church Missionary

Society began work in 1864 and 1878 at Mpwapwa.

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