Ruined by 'Race

Book Reviews / Social Sciences and Missions 23 (2010) 301–310 303 Waibinte E. Wariboko, Ruined by ‘Race’: Afro-Caribbean Missionaries and the Evangelisation of Southern Nigeria, 1895-1925 . Trenton: Africa World Press, 2007, xv + 261 pp., pbk.: $24.95, ISBN 1-59221-440-1. Th is volume takes for its subject the contributions of Afro-Caribbean missionaries to the Church Missionary Society’s activities in Nigeria, and especially in the Niger Mission. As the title sug- gests, race is placed at the centre of Wariboko’s analysis. While the study acknowledges the infl u- ence of pan-Africanism, it contends that the Caribbean recruits were powerfully motivated by

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