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“Our Foreign Field”: records of the Salvation Army in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Steven Spencer
Steven Spencer*
Affiliation:
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre, London
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In the autumn and winter of 1954 Commissioner John Allan, the second-incommand of the Salvation Army, visited Africa and travelled through those countries where The Salvation Army was then established: Kenya, Rhodesia, South Africa, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, French Equatorial Africa and the Belgian Congo. During his visit he met tribal and national leaders including, on 11 November 1954 in the Gold Coast, Kwame Nkrumah in his Presidential Office, where Commissioner Allan “asked God to guide Nkrumah as he controls the destiny of his people”.

When an account of the tour was written up for publication in 1955, the article began as follows:

Nowadays Africa is a continent where something dramatic is always happening. One part or another is constantly in the public eye. Here and there a new order is in course of being established and, as one competent authority has stated, tomorrow's headlines are certain to come out of the Dark Continent.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 122 , 2013 , pp. 35 - 52
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Copyright © International African Institute 2013

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Footnotes

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This article is based on a paper delivered at the 2013 SCOLMA Conference, Hidden Collections in African Studies

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