Carl Christian Reindorf

Carl Christian Reindorf (1834–1917) was a Ghanaian pastor and historian. He wrote The History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti in the Ga language. The work was later translated into English and published 1889 in Switzerland. He used written sources and oral tradition.

Reindorf was the son of Carl Hackenburg Reindorf, who was of half-Danish heritage and Anoa Ama, who was an ethnic Ga from Dutch Accra. Carl Hackenburg Reindorf was the son of John F. Reindorf, who was the Danish governor of Ghana. He received his early education in mission schools at Osa.^[1]

Footnotes

Works

• Carl Christian Reindorf, The History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti (1895, 1966).

References

• Jenkins, Paul, The recovery of the West African Past: African pastors and African history in the Nineteenth century; C.C. Reindorf & Samuel Johnson. Papers from an international seminar held in Basel, Switzerland, 25-28 October 1995 to celebrate the centenary of the publication of C.C. Reindorf's History of the Gold Coast and Asante, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1998, ISBN 3905141701
• Raymond Jenkins, "Gold Coast Historians and Their Pursuit of the Gold Coast Pasts, 1882-1918" (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Birmingham, 1985).
• Seth Quartey, "Missionary Practices on the Gold Coast 1832-1895. Discourse, Gaze and Gender in the Basel Mission in Pre-colonial West Africa" (Cambria Press, Youngstown, New York, 2007).