Though the Missionary is dead, God lives: African Initiatives in the founding, continuation and spread of nineteenth century Wesley Methodism in Ghana/West Africa. BOLESWA

Abstract

Invariably, Christian missionary historiography is Sub-Saharan Africa has been unduly Eurocentric. It has the tendency of attributing successes of missionary endeavors to the efforts of the Western missionaries, pushing the crucial role of the indigenous African Christian to the background. The fact is the history of African Christianity is woefully incomplete if it does not underscore the reaction of the indigenous African and his/her role in its spread. This essay is a contribution to various attempts to highlight aspects of the role of indigenous Africans in the missionary endeavors of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (WMMS) in Ghana/West Africa during the nineteenth century. It emphasizes the fact that successful missionary work in Africa has been a joint effort by the Western missionaries and their African counterparts.