I was never learnt how to write and read.
Literacy
Dictionaries traditionally define literacy as the ability to read and write. In the modern world, this is one way of interpreting literacy. One more broad interpretation sees literacy as knowledge and competence in a specific area. The concept of literacy has evolved in meaning. The modern term's meaning has been expanded to include the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers, and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge, solve mathematical problems and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. The
. His evangelism was compelling as it combined humour and manipulation to downplay the “"uncanny, fanatical, hypnotic power”" of tribal fetishes he wanted destroyed.
A few years later, Oppong, an illiterate who never learnt how to read and write, said the “holy stone” obtained while imprisoned at Juaso, about 64 km (40 miles), east-south-east of Kumasi, gifted him psychic powers to "“read the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation thanks to the Holy Spirit.”