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Working Title: Yoruba Identity in the Church Mission Society: On Rev. Canon J.J. Ransome-Kuti and His Indigenous Politics

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My research examines the political, religious, and cultural activities of J.J. Ransome-Kuti in relation to contemporary ideas of resistance and activism. In my research, I ask: how do we theorize African intellectuals and their complex (ambivalent?) relationships with the colonial institutions in which they existed?

Although silenced and misrepresented in Nigeria’s history, J.J. Ransome-Kuti’s life and religious activities pose a challenge to the discourse around anti-colonial activism in Nigeria. His complex identity as a Yoruba man in the Anglican church under the Church Mission Society (C.M.S.), opens new ways to engage with the racialization of Africans in English imagination and how this extended to the Church Mission Society.