History of the Universities’ Central Mission to Africa

The Universities’ Central Mission to Africa (c.1857 – 1965) was set up by Anglican graduates from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Cambridge, Durham and Dublin. It’s work was concentrated on Nyasaland (now Malawi) and Zanzibar (now a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania). For more information about the mission, see this Wikipedia article (which does not link to this book yet). This history covers the years 1859-1898 and is now in the Public Domain.

A.E.M. Anderson-Morshead [1845-1928], The History of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa 1859-1898, 2nd edn. London: Office of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa, 1899. Hbk. pp.494. [This material is in the Public Domain]

Contents

Author’s Preface
Preface
Chronological Table

1. The Call to the Work
2. The Shiré Highlands
3. War, Famine, and Pestilence
4. New Ground
5. A Fellow-Worker
6. The Church in the Slave Market
7. Daily Work in the Island and on the Mainland
8. On the Edge of the Wilderness
9. Lake Nyasa
10. Last Days of Bishop Steere
11. The Mission on the Lake
12. Christian Villages on the Rovuma
13. Magila in the Bondé Country
14. The Usambara Group of Missions
15. The Years in Zanzibar
16. The Chief Pastors
17. A Parting View of the Mission
18. After Two Years
19. Slavery
    

Appendices

1. Methods of Home Work
2. Methods of Mission Work
3. Constitutional History of the Mission
4. Synodical Action
5. English Members of the Mission