RT Article
T1 Jemisimiham Jehu Appiah
JF Social sciences and missions
VO 30
IS 3/4
SP 298
OP 324
A1 Botchway, De-Valera N.Y.M.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1562575376
AB 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.
K1 Gold Coast : Ghana : Afrocentric : Christianity : Nationalism : Musama Disco Christo Church
K1 Côte de l’ Or : Ghana : christianisme africain : nationalisme : Eglise Musama Disco Christo
DO 10.1163/18748945-03003011