The Mission authorities are the colonial, religious, and gubernatorial body that appoints Michael Obi as the headmaster of the Ndume Central School. They set the agenda of the school that Michael Obi and his wife, Nancy are trying to meet.
Mission Authorities Quotes in Dead Men’s Path
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Obi woke up next morning among the ruins of his work. The beautiful hedges were torn up not just near the path but right round the school, the flowers trampled to death and one of the school buildings pulled down… That day, the white Supervisor came to inspect the school and wrote a nasty report on the state of the premises but more seriously about the “tribal-war situation developing between the school and the village, arising in part from the misguided zeal of the new headmaster.”
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Dead Men’s Path
...young Michael Obi is appointed headmaster of the unprogressive school, Ndume Central School, by the Mission authorities (a colonial religious body). A “young and energetic man” with lots of big ideas for...
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