Abstract
abstract This article seeks to retrieve the voices of young women in the small kingdom of Akuapem (in south-eastern Ghana) in the 19th and early 20th century. This is approached through an exploration of reports written by Theophilus Opoku, ‘Native Pastor’ to the Basel Mission. His writings are archived and accessible to the public in Basel, Switzerland. Opoku's concerns with marriage and adultery, motherhood and fornication give valuable insights into the ways in which women exercised agency. They also illuminate how understandings of the mission and its gender ideology were informed by pre-existing moral concepts of Akuapem society.
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