David Asante

The Reverend
David Asante
David Asante
Born(1834-12-23)23 December 1834
Akropong, Gold Coast
Died13 October 1892(1892-10-13) (aged 57)
Akropong, Gold Coast
NationalityBritish subject
Education
Occupations
SpouseLydia Martha Otuwa (m. 1864)
Children11
ParentNana Owusu Akyem
Relatives
ChurchBasel Evangelical Missionary Society
Orders
OrdinationBasel Minster, 1862

David Asante (23 December 1834 – 13 October 1892) was a philologist, linguist, translator and the first Akan native missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society.[1][2][3][4] He was the second African to be educated in Europe by the Basel Mission after the Americo-Liberian pastor, George Peter Thompson.[1][2][3] Asante worked closely with the German missionary and philologist, Johann Gottlieb Christaller and fellow native linguists, Theophilus Opoku, Jonathan Palmer Bekoe, and Paul Staudt Keteku in the translation of the Bible into the Twi language.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

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  4. ^ "On October 13, 1892, David Asante, seminal African Basel missionary and author of the Twi Bible, died in Akropong". Edward A. Ulzen Memorial Foundation. 14 October 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
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  7. ^ Ofosu-Appiah, L. H. "Theophilus Opoku". dacb.org. Archived from the original on 18 May 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Guide to Basel Mission Materials on the Gold Coast". History in Africa. 10: 411–413. 1983. doi:10.2307/3171704. JSTOR 3171704. S2CID 248818368.
  9. ^ "On October 13, 1892, David Asante, seminal African Basel missionary and author of the Twi Bible, died in Akropong". Edward A. Ulzen Memorial Foundation. 14 October 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Asante, David". dacb.org. Retrieved 17 August 2020.