This article explores the attitudes and policies of the International Missionary Council (IMC) concerning Africa and African Americans. It aims to revise historical scholarship that views the ecumenical missionary movement as originating in white Western missions and guided by the goals of post-war internationalism. It argues that the IMC, founded in 1921 as the central institution for coordinating Protestant missions around the world, developed an ecumenical definition of pan-Africanism. This definition cast African Americans from the US south in the role of ‘native’ leaders in the formation of indigenous churches in Africa. With this racialized version of Christian indigenization, the IMC excluded African Christian groups that sought to form their own churches. It promoted, instead, European colonial projects and missionary societies that aimed to use African American missionaries to counter the incendiary ideas of pan-Africanism.

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泛非主义的普世起源：1920 年代国际传教理事会全球视野中的非洲和“南方黑人”

本文探讨了国际宣教委员会（IMC）对非洲和非裔美国人的态度和政策。它旨在修改历史学术，认为普世传教运动起源于西方白人传教，并以战后国际主义的目标为指导。它认为，成立于 1921 年的 IMC 作为协调世界各地新教使命的中央机构，制定了泛非主义的普世定义。这一定义将来自美国南部的非裔美国人置于非洲本土教会形成过程中的“本土”领袖角色。通过这种基督教本土化的种族化版本，IMC 排除了试图建立自己的教会的非洲基督教团体。相反，它促进了，