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This book is a historical inquiry into the practices of German missionaries of the Basel Mission Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft Basel in pre-colonial Gold Coast, West Africa, in the nineteenth century. It examines how the missionaries were involved in a complex set of racial, gender, and cultural negotiations with the local inhabitants to suggest that viewing missionaries from a single deterministic position as “educators” is misleading. Particular focus is on Andreas Riis (1804–1854), Rosine Widmann (1828–1909), and Carl Christian Reindorf (1834–1917). Practices are defined as the different aspects of discourse and activities that took place between Basel Missionaries and locals, to put a human face to their relationships, interests, and motives. Practices refer not to questions of religious “education” and “civilization,” ventures that foremost present the missionary in paradigmatic pastoral traditions as “heroic,” and religious figures with the sole aim of integrating the colonized into a “culturally” superior world system. Rather, practices refer to the articulation of values, thought, rhetorical devices, ethnography, cultural perceptions, colonial subjectivity, symbolisms of power, and marginalizing relational complexities that perpetuate European values during this pre-colonial encounter, and are continuously ignored when it comes to investigating missionaries in colonial Gold Coast. Theoretically, this study is informed by Tzvetan Todorov’s The Conquest of America and postcolonial studies scholarship and engages in a discourse analysis of missionary and colonial sources.