AFRICAN HISTORY BETWEEN GHANA AND SWITZERLAND, essays honouring Paul Jenkins

134pp., illus., map, paperback, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, 2024

ISBN: 9783906927640

A collection of essays on the career of British historian-cum-archivist Paul Jenkins (b. 1938). Jenkins taught at the University of Ghana (1965-1972), headed the archives of the Basel Mission/Mission 21 from 1972 until his retirement in 2003, and from 1989 was also a lecturer in African history at the University of Basel.

Contributions include:

"History, Memory, and the Legacies of Slavery in Ghana" by Kofi Baku & Nancy Andoh

"Long Listening: Historical creativity and archival endurance" by Paul Grant

"Making Sense of Early Missionary Photography: From Paul Jenkins' pioneering approach to the photography complex of mission" by Anke Ries

""Erasures and Invisibilities in Mission History: In quest of 'there-centricity'" Andreas Heuser

"Afterword: Enduring legacies across continents" by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong.  

It retraces his academic path from Ghana to Switzerland while engaging his curiosities in, contributions to, and impact on the development of African history since the 1960s. The volume reflects on Paul’s academic services throughout the 1960s and 1970s, mainly at the University of Ghana (1965–1972) and subsequently at the Basel Mission Archive and University of Basel (1972–2003) in Switzerland – as key sites where he established himself as a teacher and promoter of African history