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THE PROPHET HARRIS AND IVORY COAST BY JOHN PRITCHARD Abidjan, Ivory Coast It is not every year that a new work on Ivory Coast Christianity appears, and 1971 is to be doubly hailed for it saw the publication in English of a historical study of the Liberian prophet William Wa(16 Harris I) and in French of the personal account of his work in the Ivorian bush by a former Methodist missionary 2). The two books are written not only in different languages but from different viewpoints, about different periods, and with different aims, but it is nevertheless fascinating to compare them. Gordon Haliburton is a Canadian historian, now head of the Depart- ment of History at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swazi- land. He became interested in Harris in y6r and took him as the subject of his London University doctoral dissertation in 1966. This involved him in a lenghty stay in the Ivory Coast and Ghana in 1963-4, at a time when the Methodist Church in the Ivory Coast was preparing to celebrate its Jubilee. Fifty years had passed since the momentous mass movement inspired by the prophet in i9i3-y, which Ivorian Methodism counts as its
Journal of Religion in Africa – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1973
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