An enduring legacy
A chara, – I’d like to concur with Dr Carmel Gallagher and her article “Irish Missionaries’ heroism and selflessness abroad is often overlooked today” , Mass could last two hours and more.
Among the Jesuit Community in Charles Lwanga College was an anthropologist, a psycholinguist, and an ethnomusicologist. These men were the authorities on the local Tonga people, their language, their music and their cultural traditions. No one else had the inclination or expertise to carry out the research and collect the jewels of a fast disappearing culture that had been battered by years of colonialism and disdain.
Their legacy to the Tonga people and the nation of Zambia will be as valuable to them as the Book of Kells is to us Irish and the world. – Is mise,Sir, – I was interested to read Dr Carmel Gallagher’s opinion piece. And yet, I wondered why this was being published in The Irish Times, as it was a completely uncritical article and even quoted religious texts in support of an argument.
Of course Irish Catholic missionaries did much tremendous work in the fields of education and health. But the primary and overriding purpose of these missions was to convert as many people as possible to the Catholic faith, which meant displacing local religions and traditions.Catholic morality was also effectively imposed on some societies, to the detriment of local family, marriage and cultural traditions. And to the detriment of thousands of Africans at risk of HIV/Aids.
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