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Seth Quartey’s book adds a new wrinkle to this by contrasting missionaries of different genders and ethnicities.
There has been increasing interest in German precolonial fantasies and colonial practices in recent years, but still very little research on the activities of Germans in colonial settings dominated by other European powers, or on German women. And there has been almost nothing written on missionaries of mixed African and European heritage in colonial settings. For example, there has been very little research on the progeny of marriages between German missionaries from the Rhenish Missionary Society and Southwest African Nama women during the 19th century. The present book therefore begins to fill a number of lacunae in the existing literature.
As a Ghanaian, Dr. Quartey is uniquely positioned to address these problems since his country grew out of the British Gold Coast, throwing off colonial rule in 1957. Like that nation’s founder, Kwame Nkrumah, Dr. Quartey earned his PhD in the United States, where he now teaches.
George Steinmetz
Professor of Sociology and German Studies University of Michigan