215:(Basel Mission Seminary) and trained as a teacher-catechist. During this time, his life philosophy was shaped by the educational ideas Presbyterian Scottish missionaries who replaced the Basel missionaries after their expulsion, as “alien security risk”, by the British colonial government at the beginning of World War I. As many Basel missionaries were either of German or Swiss German origins, the colonial government saw them as political appendages of the German government.
289:“I do not forget that I am receiving this honour primarily as a servant of the Gospel. In view of the general tendency to regard Christianity as a foreign religion, I will remind my fellow Africans that although Christianity is Europe’s greatest gift to Africa, it is not exclusively the white man’s religion; it is not the religion of the imperialist, Christianity is a world religion because Jesus Christ is the Lord and King of the Universe.”.
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Akrofi's contribution to the reading of the vernacular in written form rather than orally and translating
Christian literary works is seen as greatest achievement in the development of the indigenous African Church as well as the teaching of Twi as a subject in the Ghanaian educational curriculum.
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was not his native language. In 1873, his parents, Andreas Kwaku Adu and Rosina Akosua Twewa, who were subsistence farmers, were among the first batch of congregants to join the then newly established Basel
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and the loss of lower limb movement. He was confined to a wheelchair for his entire life. As a child, he was influenced by the
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an African language being interpreted by an African Scholar writing in his own language.
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