Mission-educated Africans became politicized and challenged colonial rule

Evidence

In the past missionaries had counted themselves successful if their work in the field of education had produced black Englishmen, Africans who seemed to have assimilated Western culture. But these missionary-educated Africans were anathema to many administrators and others. They were “cheeky” and demanded social equality and political rights. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 855

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly evidences the making of a Black intelligentsia later radicalized — core to the reader’s question about the formation of the Black radical tradition.