18/08/2023
Rev Dr Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye
Senior Lecturer
[email protected]
Education or Qualification:
Ph.D, University of Ghana, July 2011
B.A. (Hons), University of Ghana, May 2005
Certificate in Ministry, Trinity Theological Seminary, July 2007
Diploma in Study of Religions, University of Ghana, June 1996
Teachers Certificate ‘A’, University of Cape Coast, May 1991
Research interests:
Church History
Missions
African Christianity
World Christianity.
Academic Awards /Fellowships:
2013-2014: ESKAS Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology at the
Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
2017 DAVID STOWE Fund for Mission Research at the Yale Divinity School
Publications:
Books Edited
Martin Knispel and Nana Opare Kwakye, Pioneers of the Faith: Biographical Studies from
Ghanaian Church History, (Akropong, Akuapem Presbytery Press, 2006)
Book Chapters
Cephas N. Omenyo & Nana O. Kwakye, ‘Authentically African, Authentically Anglican’, in
Cephas N. Omenyo & Eric Anum (ed.), Being All things to All People: Trajectories of Religion in Africa. Essays in honour of John S. Pobee (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2014)
Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye, “Encountering ‘Prosperity’ Gospel in 19th Century Gold Coast:
Indigenous Perceptions of Western Missionary Societies” in Pastures of Plenty: Tracing Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond (Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, Vol. 161), edited by Andreas Heuser (Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang, 2015).
Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye, “The Presbyterian Church of Ghana” in Christianity in Ghana: Vol. 1 – A PostColonial History (Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2018).
Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye, “Crucify the Cocoa – The Basel Mission Church in the Gold Coast and the Threat of the Cocoa Boom” in the ‘Golden Pod’: Its Religious, Socio-Economic and Political Impact on the Gold Coast and Ghana (Akropong: Regnum Africa, 2018).
Peer-review Journal Articles
Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye, “Mission Possible becomes Possible: West Indian Missionaries
and Mission in the Gold Coast” in Interkulturelle Theologie, Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, 2-3/2016, 42 Jahrgang.
Nana Opare Kwakye, “The Sixteenth-Century Reformation and Lessons for the Contemporary Church in Africa” in Journal of African Christian Thought, 20.2 (2017): 38-45
Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye, “Returning African Christians in Mission to the Gold Coast” in Studies in World Christianity 24.1 (2018): 25–45.
Encyclopaedia Entries
“Wie die Maserung in einem Stück Holz – Dir Spuren der Basler Mission in Ghana”, in Sonderheft auftrag – Pioniere Weltenbummler, Brückenbauer Nr. 2015. 86-89.
“Mission und Kultur” in Unterwegs zu den Anderen, 200 Jahre Basler Mission und Württemberg Nr. 17, Stuttgart 2015, 124-125.
Recent Conference Papers
“The Church in Africa and the 16th century Reformation: Lessons for the Contemporary Church”. Seminar on 500 Years of the Protestant Reformation on the theme “THE REFORMATION AND AFRICA: PAST, PRESENT, PROSPECTS” organised by the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture, Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana on 30 October 2017.
“Catherine Mulgrave, Pioneer Missionary and Teacher in the Gold Coast” at an International, Interdisciplinary Conference organized by The World Christianity & History of Religions Program, Department of History & Ecumenics, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA from January 18th January to 20, 2018. Theme: “CURRENTS, PERSPECTIVES, AND METHODOLOGIES IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY.”
“Adaptation and Survival! Changing Patterns of Ministry in a Growing African City” at Conference on “RELIGION AND THE 21ST CENTURY CITY: OPENINGS AND CLOSURES” organised by the Department for the Study of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon from 20th to 22nd June 2018.
“Literature, Music and Prayer as Expressions of African Values and Spiritualties” at the II International Interdisciplinary Conference: Global African and Afrodiasporic Religions, held at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora – UFJF (Brazil) from 22nd to 25th October 2018.
Grants:
2017-2019 USD 50,000.00 TEMPLETON FOUNDATION Grant through the Nagel Institute’s “African Theological Advance”
Professional Associations:
Editorial Team, Heritage Publishing House, Accra, Ghana
Member, German Missiological Society
Member, Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement
Member, Missiological Society of Ghana
Affiliation to Research Institutions:
Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture, Akropong.
Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon.
Credit: -g Legon
