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Interdenom, soc. organized 1898 by R. V. Bingham* as Africa Industrial Mission, as indep. faith mission, at Toronto, Ont., Can., to support work begun 1893 as Soudan Interior Mission on individual initiative; name changed 1905 to Africa Evangelistic Mission; merged with Sudan* United Miss. 1906; union dissolved and present name adopted 1907. The 1st station was est. 1902 at Patigi (or Patiji), several hundred miles up the Niger R., another at Bida 1903, another at Wushishi 1904. Fields have included Aden, Dahomey, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Somali Rep., Sudan, Upper Volta. Mem. IFMA See also Africa, C 12, 14, E 1.