The African Today (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138600300)

Diedrich Hermann Westermann was a German Africanist and ethnologist . He belongs, together with Carl Meinhof, to the founders of scientific African studies, whose first chair he held for 24 years. Westermann did an apprenticeship as a postmistress after school before applying to the North German Mission in Bremen . From there he was sent to the Mission Seminar in Basel in 1885 . In addition to teaching he taught himself without permission autodidactic Arabic. In 1900 he received the assignment to the German colony Togo . He began his ministry in Ghana today and learned the Ewe language. He became the first European to become a competent speaker. An illness forced him to travel home in 1903.