Asante-Opoku-Reindorf Lectures
This year's lecture, the 17th in the series, will be delivered by Rev. Dr. James K. Walton (Dean of Students/Chaplain, ACI) The lecture will be on the topic “Miracles and Works of Power: Substance and Bane of African Christianity".
It will be premiered on this page and on our YouTube and Facebook pages on Wednesday 2nd November 2022 at 5:30pm (17:30 GMT).
Previous Lectures
1st, 2006: Prof. J.H. Kwabena Nketia, Founding Director, International Centre for African Music and Dance, UGL, Former Chancellor, ACI. Oral Traditions in a New Mode: The Shaping of Indigenous Scholarship and Literary Style.
2nd, 2007: Prof. J.H. Kwabena Nketia. Referential Modes of Meaning as Strategies of Communication in Oral Tradition.
3rd, 2008: Prof. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Director, Institute for Women in Religion and Culture, TTS, Legon. Claiming our Heritage: African and World Christianity.
4th, 2009: Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku, Vice President, African University College of Communication, Accra. Cooking on two stones of the hearth: African
spirituality and the socio-cultural transformation of Africa.
5th, 2010: Rev. Canon Prof. Emeritus J. S. Pobee, Anglican Diocese of Accra. Identity, religion and Nation.
6th, 2011: Rev. Prof. David Kpobi, Trinity Theological Seminary. Unless the Lord Watches over the City, urbanization and Christian witness in Ghana.
7th, 2012: Prof. Deji Ayigboyin, President, Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary. Striving towards excellence in Theological Education in Africa: challenges and prognosis.
8th, 2013: Prof. (Mrs.) Akosua Adoma Perbi, University of Ghana, Legon. The Christian response to indigenous slavery in Ghana: a historical perspective gleaned from the records of Asante, Opoku and Reindorf.
8th, 2013: Prof. (Mrs.) Akosua Adoma Perbi, University of Ghana, Legon. The Christian response to indigenous slavery in Ghana: a historical perspective gleaned from the records of Asante, Opoku and Reindorf.
9th, 2014: Very Rev. Prof. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Trinity Theological Seminary. ‘Not so Among You': Christian Heritage and Ecclesial Leadership in Contemporary Africa.
10th, 2015: Rev. Prof. Philip Laryea, Dean of Accredited Studies, ACI. ‘Asem Yi Di Ka’: A Critical View of Aspects of Ghana’s History through the Lens of Ephraim Amu’s Sermons.
11th, 2016: Very Rev. Prof. John David K. Ekem, Methodist University, Ghana. Indigenized Biblical-Theological concepts as paradigms for nation building: some Gold Coast/Ghanaian case studies.
12th, 2017: Dr. Maureen O. Iheanacho, Executive Director, AmaraZaane Consulting Services Limited. Culture, Conflict and Christian Activism: Evocations from 19 th -Century Gold Coast (Ghana).
13th, 2018: Prof. H.N.A. Wellington, FGA, Professor of Architecture and Heritage Scholar. Adikanfo Mo – And What Are Heroes For?.
14th, 2019: Rev. Dr. Abraham N.O. Kwakye, University of Ghana, Legon/Akrofi-Christaller Institute, ACI. “He Came to His own”: Indigenous Reception and
African Initiatives in Mission History.15th, 2020: Prof. Eric N. B. Anum (Professor of New Testament Studies, University of Cape Coast). "Reception History of the Bible among the Indigenous People of Africa".
16th, 2021: Prof. Esther Acolatse (Knox College, University of Toronto, Canada). "African Aesthetics and Identity: A Path to Nation Building".