George Peter Thompson

George Peter Thompson (1819–1889) ya kasance ɗan asalin Liberia wanda ya zama malami, limamin addinin Kristi da kuma ɗan farko na Basel Evangelical Missionary Society na Switzerland.  Shi ne kuma ɗan Afirka na farko da ya sami ilimi a Turai ta hanyar manufa sannan kuma, ɗan Afirka na farko da aka keɓe kuma ya naɗa ɗan mishan na Basel.

Thompson ya kasance wani daga cikin tawagar Basel Mission da ke jagorantar Andreas Riis, wani mai wa'azin Danish, wanda ya dauki mataki na daukar mambobi 24 na West Indian daga Jamaica da Antigua a shekarar 1843 domin taimakawa aikin kungiyar. Tare da malamai-missionary na Jamaica, Alexander Worthy Clerk da Catherine Mulgrave, George Thompson ya zama daya daga cikin masu kafa da kuma farfesan makarantar boys' ta boarding, Salem School, Osu, wanda aka kafa a watan Nuwamba 1843.
Rayuwar Farko da Ilimi
An haife George Peter Thompson a shekarar 1819 a Cape Mount, Liberia. Ya rasa iyayensa tun yana yaro.
Thompson ya yi rayuwar yarinta a cikin gidan Jehudi Ashmun, wanda shine Wakilin Koloni na Liberia a wancan lokacin. Daga nan ne aka dauke shi zuwa Turai tare da missionar Basel, Rev. Jacob F. Sessing, a shekarar 1829, lokacin da yake kusan shekaru goma.
A bisa ga sunayensa, iyayensa suna daga cikin al'ummar Americo-Liberian ko kuma Sierra Leonean Creole, wadanda suke 'ya'yan bayin da aka saki daga Amurka. Sessing ya tafi Cape Mount, Liberia a shekarar 1826 a matsayin missionar Basel domin kafa wani tashar addini ko kuma wajen ayyukan addini, amma bai samu canja addini daga wurin mutanen da suka fahimci Christianity a matsayin addinin Turai ba. A cikin wata hira da Jove, paramount chief na al'ummar Bassa na gabar tekun Liberia, Sessing ya tuna cewa sarkin ya maimaita ra'ayin da ake da shi a cikin koloni a yammacin West Africa a karni na 19, cewa Littafi Mai Tsarki littafi ne na Turawa, yayin da fetish ko idolatry ya zama tushen addinan gargajiya na Afirka. A ƙarshe, mission Basel ta dakatar da ayyukanta a Liberia. 

Thompson ya tashi a cikin gidajen misionin Turai daban-daban a Jamus. Ya sami iliminsa na farko a boarding school a Beuggen, Baden-Württemberg, inda kuma motsin Pietism ya samo asali. Daga shekara ta 1837 zuwa 1842, ya yi karatu a Basel Mission Seminary a Basel, Switzerland, inda aka horar da shi a fannonin theology, pedagogy, philosophy, da harsuna. An yi masa consecration a lokacin bazara na shekarar 1842 a Basel Minster. Saboda tarbiyar Pietist da ya samu a Jamus da Switzerland, Thompson yana da al'adar Turai kuma yana iya magana da harshen Ingilishi da Jamusanci.

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 Daukar aikin Mishan a Yammacin Indiya 
Tun daga shekarar 1828, ƙungiyoyin farko na masu wa'azi da suka iso daga Switzerland da Jamus ƙarƙashin jagorancin Basel Mission ba su tsira daga yanayin zafin yanayi na yankin ba. A cikin 1832, mai wa'azi na Danish, Andreas Riis, ya isa Gold Coast, tare da Peter Petersen Jager, wanda ke asalinsa daga Schleswig, wanda aka haifa a 1808, da Christian Friedrich Heinze, wani likitan daga Sachsen, wanda aka haifa a 1804. Ta watan Yuli na shekarar 1832, Jager da Heinze sun rasu saboda cututtukan zafi. Riis kansa yana kan gaban mutuwa daga mura, amma an warkar da shi ta hanyar maganin gargajiya na wani mai ƙasar gida. Tsawon shekaru takwas, Riis ya kasance a Gold Coast, amma ƙoƙarin wa'azi ya zama mara nasara.
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