Answer to Question #294918 in English for Nkule

Question

According to the historian Etherington, what are three things that drove many black people to come to the mission schools?

Answer 1

Until people had an objective and wanted to participate in the "white-controlled economy," mission education was not seriously addressed. Otherwise, reading and writing abilities were judged useless, making mission education in indigenous societies pointless. However, many black people opted to come to the mission schools for various reasons:

1. Many people came to mission schools looking for work
2. Some were seeking sanctuary from troubles in their communities.
3. several African tribes allowed people to join. when the time came, the chiefs' sons, in particular, were encouraged to enroll in mission schools. The chiefdoms' independence was in jeopardy. They did so to use educated people to act as go-betweens for the colonial authorities and the African chiefdoms. After the subjugation of the chiefdoms and the economy's expansion, people began to value mission education and saw it as a way of social advancement.