[1][2][3][4] 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.

[1][2][3] His notable sister was Annie Ruth Baëta Jiagge (1918 – 1996), the first woman in Ghana and the Commonwealth of Nations to become a judge.

He was then awarded a scholarship for further studies at the Evangelisches Missionsseminar in Basel, Switzerland and ordained a Presbyterian minister.

[1][2][3] Christian Baëta joined the faculty at the department of divinity and the study of religions at the University of Ghana, Legon, retiring in 1971 as a professor.

[1][2][3] An advocate of missiology as a local phenomenon, he championed the role of younger African church missions, focusing on common experiences and co-existing peacefully with adherents of other faiths while maintaining the free expression of ecumenical Christianity.

[1][2][3] Other important groups that petitioned the colonial government between December 1945 and July 1946, to establish a university, include the Advisory Committee on Education, the Achimota Council, the Standing Committee of the Joint Provincial Council of Chiefs, the Asante Confederacy Council, the Gold Coast Bar Association, the Old Students Associations, the Rodger Club, Accra; the Hudson Club, Kumasi; and the Gold Coast Teachers Union.

[1][2][3] An advocate of social justice and conflict resolution, he served on the Coussey Committee on Constitutional Reform for the Gold Coast and was a member of the Constitutional Assembly which carried out the groundwork for the return to civilian rule after the 1966 overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah in a coup d’état.