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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798619503321

Autore

Sibanda Melusi

Titolo

Carrying the vision : Eelin and her missionary friends / / Melusi Sibanda ; foreword by The Rt Revd David A. Urquhart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bedfordshire, England] : , : AG Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78538-456-2

1-78538-455-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 pages)

Disciplina

370.96

Soggetti

Education - Africa

Education, Secondary - Zimbabwe - Nyamamdlovu

Lay missionaries - Church of England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Using a trajectory of 20th century Anglican approaches to mission in rural Africa, this book tells the story of the development of an educational institution by tracing the faith journey of Eelin Beardall, a woman who dedicated thirty years of her life to the people of Nyamandlovu in Matabeleland region in Zimbabwe. Eelin and her husband Frank played a pioneering role in the development of Nyamandlovu's first secondary school. One of her greatest contributions to humanity was to carry out a vision for education both in the days of guerrilla warfare and in the context of post-independence troub