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F AD 1839. Justin de Jacobus, an
Italian Lazarist missionary, begins
two decades of work in Ethiopia.
G AD 1839. Sultan Sayyid Said
moves Oman’s capital to Zanzibar
where it quickly becomes the
largest slave-trading state in East
Africa.
AD 1780
AD 1790
A
AD 1800
B
Bible Translated into Swahili (H).
AD 1810
AD 1820
Bagamoyo Mission Church (J).
C
BIBLIA
TAKATIFU
AD 1830
H AD 1844. Johann Ludwig Krapf,
a German CMS missionary, begins
work in Mombasa. He translates
the Bible into Swahili, a major
milestone in Bible translation in
Africa.
I AD 1857. David Livingstone
gives a speech during a visit to
Cambridge University in England
resulting in the creation of
Universities’ Mission to Central
Africa. Its purpose is to establish
“centres of Christianity and civilization for the promotion of true
religion, agriculture, and lawful
commerce.” The mission builds a
cathedral in Zanzibar on the foundation of a former slave market.
AD 1840
D
E
F G
H
AD 1850
J AD 1864. The Holy Ghost
Fathers, also known as the
Spiritans, begin work in Sierra
Leone. A few years later they
begin work in Zanzibar and then
on the East African mainland. In
AD 1868 they open Bagamoyo, a
Christian village for freed slaves
on the Tanzanian coast. Central to
Bagamoyo’s philosophy is “labora
et ora”—work and prayer. The
focus of the Spiritans’ mission
work shifts to East Africa by the
end of the nineteenth century.
I
AD 1860
J K
AD 1870
AD 1880
L M
N
O
P
Q
R
AD 1890
S
AD 1900
T
Samuel Ajayi Crowther Consecrated as
Bishop (K).
K AD 1864. Samuel Ajayi Crowther
is consecrated as the first Anglican
bishop in Africa. Nigerian-born
Crowther is a recaptive who landed
in Sierra Leone. He participates
in a Niger expedition of 1841 and
translates the Bible into Yoruba.