Theophilus Herman Kofi Opoku (1842 – 7 July 1913) was a native Akan linguist, translator, philologist, educator and missionary who became the first indigenous African to be ordained a pastor on Gold Coast soil by the Basel Mission in 1872.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Opoku worked closely with the German missionary and philologist Johann Gottlieb Christaller as well as fellow native Akan linguists, David Asante, Jonathan Palmer Bekoe, and Paul Staudt Keteku in the translation of the Bible into the Twi language.[5][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
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^Sill, Ulrike (2010). Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood: The Basel Mission in Pre- and Early Colonial Ghana. BRILL. pp. 236–242. ISBN 978-9004188884. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017.
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^ abKeteku, H. J (1965). The Reverends Theophilus Opoku and David Asante. Accra: Waterville Pub. House. OCLC 796225.
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^Iheanacho, Maureen O (2014). Theophilus Opoku--indigenous pastor and missionary theologian, 1842-1913. Legon-Accra, Ghana: Sub Saharan Publishers. ISBN 9789988550608. OCLC 900794048.
^Theophilus Opoku--indigenous pastor and missionary theologian, 1842-1913. OCLC 900794048.
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