Looking for Traces of Hybridity: Two Basel Mission Reports and a Queen Mother: Philosophical Remarks on the Interpretation of a Political Deed (1)‪.‬

Summary This article undertakes the rereading of two texts that had been written at the very beginning of the twentieth century in the western part of the former Gold-Coast colony, today's Ghana. Guided by the concept of "hybridity", this reading tries to show that a close look at the construction of identity--in this case the identity of a missionary and a native pastor--can open up ways for new textual interpretations. Thus, the two authors who are located in the power struggle between the local politics, the colonial government and the Basel Mission seem to contest the official interpretation of a political deed in their reports and thereby negotiate its meaning.