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African history between Ghana and Switzerland / E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor and Anne Beutter, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jenkins, Paul, 1938-.
- Jenkins, Paul.
- Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel.
- Missions--Africa--History.
- Missions.
- Missions, Swiss--Ghana--History.
- Missions, Swiss.
- Protestant churches--Missions--History.
- Protestant churches.
- Ghana--History.
- Ghana.
- Switzerland--History.
- Switzerland.
- Genre:
- Festschriften
- Essays
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (166 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2024]
- Summary:
- This collection of essays documents the formative decades of African history across two countries by following the career of the British historian-cum-archivist Paul Jenkins (born 1938 in Sutherland) from West Africa to Central Europe.
- Contents:
- Intro
- A Topical Guide to the Contributions
- Abbreviations
- Foreword: A Biographical Exploration
- Editorial Introduction: Writing African History between Ghana and Switzerland
- Part I A Historian Amongst Others in Legon
- 1 Histories from the Eternal Love Television Archive (Liberia), 1980-1991
- 2 History, Memory, and the Legacies of Slavery in Ghana
- 3 Basel Mission Salems, Schools, and Conflicts in Two African Towns, 1830s-1874
- Part II Nurturing Trans-Generational Scholarship From Basel
- 4 "Patchy but Interesting": Or a Note on the Reward of Digging Deep for Ghanaian Everyday History and Lived Religion
- 5 Pizza in 19th-Century Ghana: Or the Challenge of Controlling Academic Zeal
- 6 Long Listening: Historical Creativity and Archival Endurance
- Part III Visualising Africa's Past Across Continents
- 7 Making Sense of Early Missionary Photography: From Paul Jenkins' Pioneering Approach to the Photography Complex of Mission
- 8 Notes on "the Other Context" for Reading Missionary Photographs of Ghana in the Basel Mission Archives
- Part IV The Archive and Historical Knowledge Production About Africa
- 9 Erasures and Invisibilities in Mission History: In Quest of "There-Centricity"
- 10 African Initiatives and Sources in Christian History: Paolo Mohenu (1809-1886), a Gold Coast Traditional Priest who Became a Basel Mission Evangelist
- Afterword
- Figures
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783906927657
- 3906927652
- OCLC:
- 1522767177
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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