Although the Christian missions achieved great success in their missionary enterprise in west Africa, the experienced many difficulties and hardships in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
First , there was the problem of health. The missionaries often suffered from ill health owing to the unhealthy climate and tropical diseases such malaria and yellow fever. Even the use of quinine from 1854 as a protection against malaria did not improve the situation much. the humid tropical climate quickly told on the health of many an energetic missionary who either died prematurely<<<http://www.carenewsng.com/2016/01/some-difficulties-of-christian-missions.html>>>read more

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