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Missions and Indigenous Chiefs in Nineteenth-Century Yorubaland

2025· article· en· W7133216376 on OpenAlexaff
Kehinde Olabimtan

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of West African History · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicChristian Theology and Mission
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousChristianityNegotiationAdventureAfrican cultureOut of africa

Abstract

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Abstract An underexplored aspect of the adventures of Christian missions in precolonial Africa has led to the unnuanced association of the emergence of African churches with European colonialism. Although there were overlapping dynamics in the two European movements of mission and colonialism, the reality of Christian missions’ entries into African indigenous societies was not as simple as it might appear at a cursory glance. This article is interested in an underexplored aspect of African church historiography: the critical role of African chiefs in the success or otherwise of missionary exertions in African communities. The article investigates the mission encounter in Ijaye, one of such communities, to demonstrate the complexity of the negotiation for the planting of Christianity in nineteenth-century Yorubaland. The bottom line is that African ruling elites were no pushovers in the planting of Christianity in their domains. They astutely determined the prospects and the outcomes of the foreign initiatives for themselves and their societies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.675
Threshold uncertainty score0.858

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.205
Teacher spread0.194 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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