Ephraim Amu: the church musician dismissed for wearing African cloth
Ephraim Amu, composer of the patriotic song "Yen Ara Asase Ni", was dismissed from the Presbyterian training college at Akropong in 1933. His insistence on African…
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Kwame Bediako: the Ghanaian theologian who said Christianity had come home to Africa
Kwame Bediako (1945 to 2008) was a Ghanaian theologian and founding rector of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute at Akropong. He argued that Christianity was not a foreign…
Four missionaries arrived in 1828. Three were dead within a year. How the Presbyterian Church of Ghana began
The Basel Mission sent four missionaries to the Gold Coast in December 1828. Three died in 1829 and the fourth in 1831. The church survived because…