The Diary of Walter Gowans

It has been overwhelmingly wonderful to interact with your book as it is so clear and vivid and makes Gowans come alive.  Rev. Dr. Rueben Maiture Head, Division of Arts and Social Science Education, Institute of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

An extraordinary resource: a diary of a Sudan Interior Mission missionary as he travels to and through Nigeria at the end of the 19^th century. Venturing into the Muslim dominated Sahel region of West Africa, Gowans reveals his own and Western complex attitudes towards Islam and Africa in an extremely well document account. The editors have made an invaluable contribution to mission and Nigerian history.  Professor David Robinson. University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University.

I find your book very interesting to read. Your efforts to make Walter Gowan’s diary of 1894 available to the public are commendable. If I had access to the diary when I di my research on the History of the Emirate of Bida, it would have enriched the work. But this notwithstanding, the diary will be valuable when I come to review my work on Bida.  Professor Sule Mohammed. Professor of Political History, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

We really enjoyed reading your manuscript. What a great piece of research and history! Professor Jim & Carol Plueddemann, Retired missionaries with ECWA in Nigeria and former International Director of SIM.

Cate O’Brien is a writer and independent scholar who lives in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rev Jonathan Obi is the Desk Officer of the Relief Foundation of Evangelical Churches Winning All (ECWA) based in Jos, Nigeria.

Dr Tim Geysbeek, formerly the Archivist at SIM International Archives, is a lecturer at Jos ECWA Theological Seminary (JETS).