This paper explores medical missionary activities and its contributions to healthcare development in rural areas in southwestern Nigeria. missionaries in Nigeria In fact, its predicted that almost 40 percent of the worlds Christians will reside in Sub-Saharan Africa by the year 2050. The Igbo had not elected Basden as their representative; he had been appointed by the colonial government. List of Early Missionaries in Nigeria 1842. Journals of the Rev. [Leicester]: Study of Religion Sub-department, University of Leicester, 1976. 3. He was a missionary of the Christian Missionary Society of the Church of England that arrived Sarah Townsend. Registered In England and Wales. Falae, Vivien. Contributions of the Christian Missionaries Between 1931 and 1937, the Anglican missionary G. T. Basden represented the Igbo people on the Nigerian Legislative Council. Webvarious missionary bodies that have been operating in southern Nigeria since the nineteenth century and has highlighted the enormous contributions made by these missionary bodies towards the development and civilization of the area. The spread of the gospel through foreign missionaries often occurred simultaneously with the spread of colonial rule by European nations. Contribution The morality or efficiency of members of Crowthers staff was increasingly questioned by British missionaries. The CMS secretary, Henry Venn, saw Crowther as a potential demonstration of the feasibility of self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating African churches and in 1857 sent him to open a new mission on the Niger. Reg.