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At the end of the French empire, international Catholic nongovernmental organizations sought to extend their reach into Africa a the same time as African national churches sought to more firmly extend their role into everyday life in the new nation-states. This led to rivalries between local and foreign missionaries and Church leaders on the ground in Francophone African states.
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This page is a summary of: Science and Charity: Rival Catholic Visions for Humanitarian Practice at the End of Empire, French Politics Culture & Society, January 2015, Berghahn Journals,
DOI: 10.3167/fpcs.2015.330203.
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