"Provides a history of one of the publishing products during British colonial rule: The Christian Messenger, a pioneering journal and newspaper (with text in English and in Ghanaian languages) founded by German and Swiss missionaries as a joint venture between the Methodist Church and the Basel Mission. Besides publishing this newspaper, the mission press also produced translations of the bible, published dictionaries, and commissioned textbooks on many subjects." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1708)