The launch of Tiyo Soga: A Literary History in London was held at at the School of Oriental and African Studies, sponsored by the seminar group Christian Missions in Global History of which I am a co-convenor, and the Centre of World Christianity, where I am a Research Associate , on the 6th November 2018. We were fortunate to have Professor Emeritus David Killingray as a respondent and to have the great-grand-daughter of Rev Soga in our group. Fellow academics and missionary historians were in the audience, as well as friends and their children who were remarkably quiet all night! Afterwards, we drank wine and again, sold out of books completely bar 3...
