Lecture : 05.06.2025, Materialising The Missionary Encounter

Join us for an evening with researcher Benjamina Efua Dadzie at the Goethe-Institut library for Materialising the Missionary Encounter: Gifting and Collecting at the Church Missionary Society Abeokuta Mission in the 1840s and 1850s.This seminar offers insight into the material remains of the Church Missionary Society (CMS)’s 19th-century Abeokuta mission, now held in a museum collection, and explores how missionaries gathered artefacts of the Egba people. It also contextualises the provena