ARTICLE PREVIEW: University of Fort Hare is a Missionary Station, Always was.

The University College of Fort Hare is a missionary station, always was. There is not much to celebrate as it reaches its centenary landmark. The history and background of the University College of Fort Hare, as it was known as on erection, has its roots embedded in the missionary efforts of the envoys of the London Missionary Society (LMS). This collective was commissioned by the British monarchy and was established purely as a measure to infiltrate basic day to day local or ‘Native’ life. The reasons for this move demand another critical study all together. I will focus on the infiltration and results thereof that informed what was to come. It’s evident that the monarchy had a standard plan for its colonies internationally. This is blatantly visible in the colonial development of modern day India, Australia and New Zealand. The move to establish a settler community in the modern day Eastern Cape is testimony. Never before, had a colonial force in Africa, been able to impose itself culturally than in Southern Africa in the early nineteenth century. They were so effective that they were able to inculcate a settler community in the middle of war ridden terrains. How? The assassination of dominant monarchs and destruction of sovereign rule, the translation of the Bible into isiXhosa and the establishment of schools fashioned in settler pedagogy, with an emphasis civilizing the locals. Locals were to become an economic commodity to sustain the colony without even knowing it. READ FULL ARTICLE ON AFRIKA DAY 25 MAY 2016