"Lochmann to Basel"

A report on the Basel Mission schools in the English Volta district. Anum - 75 children, 34 of them boarding boys, and overall increase of 13. He points out that only 41 pupils are actually from Anum. The coffee plantation brought little return in the year due to the ravages of the coffee-tree worm. The scholars had also raided the school maize plantation. Tosena - 24 pupils, including 15 heathen children. Boso - 41 pupils, exceptionally including 23 Christian girls and only 12 boys from Christian families. Not so well run as the school in Toseng. Kpalime - 29 pupils at the beginning of the year, 20 by the end. Tsatei - 19 pupils, 2 of them from heathen families. In general Lochmann makes the point that the numbers in some places (e.g. Anum) are not as large as they should be, and this indicates that the Christian parents do not yet appreciate the value of schooling.

17.01.1898

17.01.1898

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