This paper (re)examines European missionary encounters with Ghanaians from the sixteenth – twenty-first centuries from Ghanaian perspectives. The paper makes three main arguments: first, European missionary endeavours were quite peripheral to ongoing indigenous religious activities and daily life, with the movement of Christianity from the periphery to the center of Ghanaian society a more recent phenomenon with political implications and concerns. Secondly, missionary and colonial decisions were often made in response to indigenous activities, not vice versa. And thirdly, this methodological approach of hearing African and European voices in dialogue serves as a much-needed corrective to favouring European perspectives within African mission history. Taken together, this provides fresh insights into questions of how/why Christianity went from the periphery under European missionary leadership to Ghana’s primary religion post-independence, offering differently nuanced understandings to concepts of mission while giving dignity and respect to the local context, people, and institutions.

本文从加纳人的角度（重新）考察了欧洲传教士与 16 至 21 世纪的加纳人的遭遇。这篇论文提出了三个主要论点：首先，欧洲的传教努力与正在进行的土著宗教活动和日常生活无关，基督教从加纳社会的外围到中心的运动是最近出现的一种具有政治影响和担忧的现象。其次，传教和殖民决定往往是针对土著活动做出的，反之亦然。第三，这种在对话中聆听非洲和欧洲声音的方法论方法是一种急需的纠正方法，可以在非洲宣教历史中偏袒欧洲的观点。综合起来，