Aylward shorter biography

Aylward was born in 1932 in Southwark and was ordained 30 years later in Totteridge, North London as a Missionary of Africa.

Milestones in the life of Father Alyward Shorter ; Born in London, on 02/05/1932, Spiritual Year, Missionary Oath ; in the diocese of Southwark.

Born May 2, 1932, in London, England; son of Alan Wynn (an Egyptologist) and Joan Shorter.

Aylward Shorter has served as President of the Missionary Institute, London, has lectured in African Studies at the Catholic Higher Institute of Eastern Africa, and has served as consultant to the Vatican secretariat for non-Christians.

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Born May 2, 1932, in London, England; son of Alan Wynn (an Egyptologist) and Joan Shorter.!

Cross & Flag in Africa
The"White Fathers" during the Colonial Scramble (1892-1914

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"This is an account of Africa's most dynamic missionary society at the peak of its vitality.... Balanced in judgment and peopled by missionaries heroic in both their virtues and their faults."
-John Iliffe, University of Cambridge

"An important study....

A narrowcast view of missions sees them as bedfellows of colonialism, indeed, as cross and flag, but that ignores the profound innovations missions executed on the ground. This book remedies that wrongheaded view with fluent authority and elegance."
-Lamin Sanneh, Yale University, author,
Whose Religion is Christianity?

Veteran anthropologist and historian Aylward Shorter takes the reader inside the ideals and lives of the "White Fathers"-the spiritual sons of Cardinal Lavigerie, who are now known as the "Missionaries of Africa." In a cruci