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Jemisimiham Jehu Appiah

LA127144

انگلیسی

Jemisimiham Jehu Appiah

[Article]

De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway

Leiden

Brill

In the Gold Coast, now Ghana, J.W.E. Appiah, a teacher-catechist, left the missionary-founded Methodist Church for opposing his Afrocentric healing and preaching activities and founded the Musama Disco Christo Church in the 1920s. He then took on the prophetic name Jemisimiham Jehu Appiah. He wrote his philosophies to validate an Afrocentric church in the indigenous Fante language. His Church, an African anti-colonialist/anti-colonial establishment, is alive; yet his untranslated writings have remained in obscurity. This study provides a biographical view of Appiah. It translates his writings and interrogates their inner logic as liberation theology that rationalised the salvaging of certain indigenous mores through Afrocentric Christianity to promote a Black Nationalist cultural awareness.

2017

298-324

Social Sciences and Missions

30/3-4

1874-8945

Afrocentric

christianisme africain

Christianity

Côte de l' Or

Eglise Musama Disco Christo

Ghana

Gold Coast

History of Religion

Musama Disco Christo Church

Nationalisme

Religion & Society

Religious Studies

Social Sciences

De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway

10.1163/18748945-03003011

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[Article]

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