ABSTRACT
This paper examines the pre-colonial religious encounter between an Akan chief and a Danish missionary that led to the establishment of Protestantism on West African soil during the early nineteenth century. It discusses the dialogue between Andrea Riis, a Danish missionary, and Okuapehene Addo Dankwa I of the Akan state of Akuapem and argues Presbyterianism was a factor in the restructuring of Akuapem society by making it as suggested in a Westernized African society. Among the Akuapem was a leading sector of the population who were the product of the Jamaican-European-African exchange possessing literacy (Twi and English) and Africanized Western architecture, music, cuisine, dress, names, along with new institutions such as churches, schools, and associations. The insertion of this leading sector of Westernized Akuapem people within Akuapem society changed the social dynamics within the society.
