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Nigeria
BEGINNINGS
1913 East-Northeast Nigeria Danish Mission of Denmark (with support of the UELC)
1946 United Evangelical Lutheran Church became a co-sponsor of the mission (UELC - TALC - ELCA)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Engskov, Ernst. Adamawa Province: Reflections on Gongola State. London: Root Publishing, 1983. 247 pp.

Descriptions of Nigeria and mission work from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Jacobsen, Helen Margarett, and Solveig Swendseid. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1989.

Narrator: Helen Margarett Jacobsen, UDELC/UELC/TALC missionary to Nigeria 1943-1984.

Jacobsen, Jack E. A Survey of the Establishment of the Lutheran Mission and Indigenous Church in Adamawa Province, Nigeria, British West Africa. N.p. 1957. 66 pp.

Location: Luther Seminary

Ludvigsen, K. M., ed. Into Sudan and God Went With Them. Blair, Neb.: Lutheran Publishing House, [1944] 68 pp.

Issued by the Sudan Committee of the U.E.L.C. History and work of the Lutheran section of the Sudan Mission in Nigeria, Africa, beginning in 1904 with the work of Dr. Niels Bronnum from Denmark, ending with account of new missionaries going out immediately following World War II.

Nissen, Margaret. An African Church is Born: The Story of the Adamawa and Central Sardauna Provinces in Nigeria. Viby, Denmark: Purups Grafiske Hus, 1968. 255 pp.
Nissen, Margaret, and Solveig Swendseid. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1989.

Narrator: Margaret Nissen, UDELC/UELC/TALC missionary to Nigeria, 1943-1976.

 

 

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Myatafai, Asriel Sokushipe Tuwatile. 1981 Luther’s Theology of the Two Kingdoms and Its Relevance to the Nigerian Situation. master's thesis, Wartburg Theological Seminary, 120pp.
Wala, Jantur. 1983. African Traditional Religion in Dialogue with Old Testament as a Basis for Communicating the Gospel. master's thesis, Wartburg Theological Seminary, 228pp.
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