ミゾベ　ヤスオ   MIZOBE Yasuo   溝辺　泰雄    所属   明治大学  国際日本学部    職種   専任教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2009
形態種別	学術雑誌
標題	Another Aspect of an Early Gold Coast Nationalist: S.R.B. Attoh-Ahuma's Missonary Work before the End of the Nineteenth Century
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	Abibisem: Journal of African Culture and Civilization
巻・号・頁	1,pp.17-33
概要	This paper offers a case study of the formation of early West African nationalists, describing S. R. B. Attoh-Ahuma’s life and missionary work before the end of the nineteenth century. In 1895, Attoh-Ahuma devoted himself to clerical work in his capacity as the superintendent of the Axim District of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, British Gold Coast. At the time, the church had become aware of a ‘traditional custom’ of killing the badu, the tenth child, prevalent in Appolonia in this district. Attoh-Ahuma went there to ‘rescue’ the mothers and babies in danger, while urging the local chiefs to discontinue this traditional custom as well as appealing to the colonial government to take legal measures to abolish this practice. These actions make a sharp contrast with his ‘fervent nationalism’ after the turn of the twentieth century, on which existing studies have focused. In addition, his missionary activities, directly or indirectly, influenced the unification of the south-western region of the Gold Coast.
ISSN	2026-5441