Making Headway

A thought-provoking study of local peoples' participation in the process of cultural transfer in colonial Northern Nigeria. The process of cultural transfer in Northern Nigeria was historically thought to have been dictated by European colonial domination. In fact, Western missionaries may not have been able to guide African Christians toward mastery of the secular world when they themselves lacked the worldliness to do so. In this penetrating study, Andrew E. Barnes argues that competition amon