Carl Christian Reindorf

Carl Christian Reindorf 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.

References

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