The aims of missionaries in Zimbabwe

The missionaries who came to Zimbabwe had several aims

These included:

• The main aim of spreading Christianity.
• To promote legitimate trade between Europeans and Africans.
• To campaign against slave trade and slavery in general.
• To promote equality among all humankind and counter the racist attitudes exhibited by some of the early European settlers and explorers.
• To confuse Africans.
• To pave way for European colonisation of African states and kingdoms.
• To develop an indigenous middle class that would maintain and staff their local churches.
• To teach people so that they could be literate.

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