Christian Goncalves Kwami Baëta

Christian Gonçalves Kwami Baëta (23 May 1908 – 1994) was a Ghanaian academic and a Presbyterian minister who served as the Synod Clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1945 to 1949. He was among a number of prominent individuals, corporate organisations and civil society groups that were instrumental in the establishment of the University of Ghana, Legon in 1948.

Early life and education Christian Gonçalves Kwami Baëta was born in 1908 in Keta on the Gold Coast, to Robert Domingo Baëta, a Presbyterian minister and Henrietta Baëta, an educator. She was also an advocate of women’s rights. Christian Baëta had his primary and middle education at Keta schools founded by Bremen missionaries. He then proceeded to the Scottish Mission Teacher Training College, Akropong (Basel Mission Seminary) to study theology and pedagogy to become a teacher-catechist. He was then awarded a scholarship for further studies at the Evangelisches Missionsseminar in Basel, Switzerland and ordained a Presbyterian minister. From 1965 to 1971, he was also the Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor at Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham, England.

Selected works

Baëta, C. G. K. (1963) "Prophetism in Ghana" London Baëta, C. G. K. (1968) "Christianity in Tropical Africa" Baëta, C. G. K. (1971) "The Relationship of Christians with Men of Other Living Faiths" Baëta, C. G. K. (1984) "My Pilgrimage in Mission," IBMR 12 (4): 165-168.

Personal life He was married to Victoria Essie van Lare (born in 1908) who died on 6 September 1999 and they had 5 children.

Death Christian Baëta died in 1994 at the age of eighty-six.