331 20 77825 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.VI. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880 Title A name given to the resource Christiansborg Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.VII. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880 Title A name given to the resource Abokobi Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.VIII. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880 Title A name given to the resource Odumase Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.IX. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880 Title A name given to the resource Ada Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.X. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880 Title A name given to the resource District Comitee Akwapam-Akem Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XI. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880 Title A name given to the resource Aburi Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XII. Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880 Title A name given to the resource Akropong Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 30.06.1880 Proper date: 30.06.1880 Description An account of the resource He hears from Freeman the Bishop of Sierra Leone has despatched an 'Agent' (catechist) to work for the Church Missionary Society. The Sierra Leonians had asked the bishop for pastoral oversight during his visit to Accra in March 79. It seems that they were meeting separated from the 'revolutionary Methodists'. Several weeks ago people from Amantra came to him. Amantra is one day's journey from Abetifi, and they had a letter from Ramseyer which said that they had come to him complaining about the way they were being troubled by the Asantehene, and expecting him to write to the Astantehene on their behalf - and that that would he sufficient. Ranmseyer explained that he could not meddle in the internal politics of Asante, but after persistent requests for help sent them to Buhl to be introduced to the governor, from whom, however, they received both in writing and by word of mouth that the English government would not interfere in relations between the Asantehene and his subjects and that if they wanted English protection they must move into the Protectorate. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.III..23 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.III. - General Cashier Title A name given to the resource Buhl's Quarterly Report Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 31.12.1879 Proper date: 31.12.1879 Description An account of the resource The numbers of Christians' houses in Kibi and Kukurantumi are given as 12 and 14 respectively. There are 'several' houses in the process of being built on the mission land at Abomosu. There is a new outstation at Asunafo, again with 'several' houses in the process of being built. Another new outstation - Apapam - a place where the Christians have built a chapel and catechist's house in the town. The year was a difficult one, with the death of Lodholz shortly after he had been appointed to the Kibi station. All things considered Buck spent much of his own time travelling on mission business - only with the application of all his strength to the situation could he keep up outstation visits, and the care of the Kibi community was very much in the hands of the local agents. There was a certain amount of transfer of these in the course of the year - Date went to Abomosu, W. Mensa the Kibi catechist was transferred to Asunafo, and Cat. Tete was brought from Kukurantumi to Kibi to replace Mense. On the whole however the year - though sorrowful and difficult for the missionaries . was one of progress and increasing strength for the churches. There were 158 baptisms, composed of 135 heathens, including 16 wives of christians. There was thus an increase of 16 in the number of christian marriages in the district, and indeed the attitude of the women showed how firm were the roots of Christianity in Akim. In Abomosu two wives became Christian while their husbands remained heathen, and Abomosu girls prefer marrying Christians to heathens. Another sign of strength is that the Christian communities are doing some things for themselves - building chapels and catechist's houses (though Buck complains that the older catechists wait for support from the missionaries - it is the younger ones, specifically Mensa and Odee, who managed to lead their community to build them houses). It is difficult to say much about the situation vis-a-vis the Okyenhene. In the early part of the year the situation varied between hostility and friendliness, culminating in the Okyenhene's instructions being received in Kukurantumi Apapam and Asiakwa as to how the Christians should be treated. At this time a female slave of the late king's was made to swear an oath in Tete that she would not become a Christian at this stage. Buck himself travelled to Christiansbog to put the case against the Okyenhene personally, various petitions from Christians having failed to make any impact. He argued that it was not a question of the Governor getting mixed up in religious matters, but rather a question of freeing crop an livestock farming from the limiting regulations of the fetish cults. Buck then received written instrcutions from Governor Usher on this subject, which the Governor suggested should be handed over to the Okyenhene by Buck himself. Buck is very grateful, and hopes this point will be mentioned in the English Annual Report. Kibi - only 13 heathen adults were baptised, 6 men and youths amd 7 women. 47 Christian children were baptised, but against this were 8 deaths in the community, 6 exclusions (for adultery, including the wife of an elder, a carpenter who had been 'vagabonding' foryears, and 2 pupils of the boarding school), and the numbers of Christians moving away from Kibi (mostly catechists, teachers and school pupils)far outstripped the 6 Christians who moved into the community. Boakye is the heart of the community- and Buck reckons that ground has been won among the heathen in the course of the year. Wandering is somewhat less among the Kibi Christians now that many of them have laid out farms. Kukurantumi has increased less than any others. 14 baptisms. Buck ascribes this to the effert of building. The community lacks money except what can be earned from hammock carrying and load-carrying. He misses a zeal for the extension of the gospel there, but is perhaps this will be cured by the newly appointed evangelist Andr. Ewi. Asikawa had passed through a time of trial in the sense that Cat. Mullings had passed all problems, great and small, on to Buck in Kibi. In the end he had sent a party back to Asiakwa with the simple mesage 'I am not catechist in Asiakwa' - from when on Mullings had exerted real authority, been instrumental in getting 4 people excluded who needed to be excluded. From that moment (as Buck portrays it) the life of the community was much strengthened - the Christians began building a temporary chapel, and refused financial help from the mission for the building of a catechists' house. A number of catechumens announced themselves (16, 8 of them adults, were eventually baptised), the congregation came regularly to services. A fetish priest had been found guilty before the Asiakwa elders of causing the death of people who were ill by giving them damaging medecine. After much worry about his punishment he was sentenced to live with the catechist, and attend all services, sermons and catechism classes. There was a stormy year in Abomosu also. At one stage the whole community was excommunicated until they should exclude adulteress. This was eventually achieved, the Abomosu heathen interesting themselves in the whole matter and urging a proper settlement. Date was transferred there, the number of members increased by 23, and the Gemeinde now numbers 57. 4 Christian children were born in the year, and all died - Abomosu is the worst of the Akim towns for its uncleanliness and its death rate among children. Abunafo - now a separate community. At Easter there was an incident when a fetish priest Otobo from Asiamangma collected the fetish priests from Akim (Buck explains he was the chief fetish priest in Akim) to make some sort of demonstration against the Christians in Asunafo. The Christians at first retreated from the main street of the village to one side, but were followed and a fight broke out when a pipe was knocked out of a Christian mouth by Otobo, using a cutlass (or knife) - smoking being taboo to Otobo's fetish, though Otobo himself is a persistent smoker. When knives and cutlasses were brought out by Otobo's party the Christians scattered into the forest and had to stay the night in the pouring rain - meanwhile the chapel was destroyed. Buck advised the Asunafo Christians to take the matter like Christians, but they decided to go to court in Accra. They were awarded £20 damages on condition that the chapel was rebuilt in 2 months, but, Buck received an angry letter from the Governor - he was surprised such a letter could be written by a 'gentleman' (English word used). He himself felt that the case had done them no good - they were away for months on it, and several of them had not spoken the precise truth. And the last stage was that when the community elder, Mose Tinnyase went to Accra to receive the money he died, and Otobo gave out that the fetish had killed him. Nevertheless over the whole year the community increased by 9 to 37. Kwabeng - A slow developmant, 9 adult men baptised in the year, no women and few children. 'The chief enemy is Gold'. A quarter of the population are Juabens,- whose desire for revenge prevents them entertaining other thoughts. Buck feels there is an explanation for this. He writes that he will never forget how an old man told him how when their powder was all used up, they were surrounded by the Asantes ('that is to say, the Kumasis') and all the prisoners whom they took in the district were cudgeled to death, and how the Juabens, to avoid this kind of slaughter, were committing suicide by families. Buck moralises on this point, however, that earlier it had been the Juabens who had the worst reputation for cruelty in Akim and Akwapim. Asantes (including these Juabens, whom Buck describes as very cool to the mission) are eager to learn, but not well-disposed to Christianity. Apapam - community has increased to 38, 6 wives having been baptised in the course of the year. Andr. Odee, a young man, has travelled from Apapam the villages along the source-valley of the Berem and won considerable respect - of the 38 Christians there are one or two in most of these villages. The people of Apapam originally agreed to have Odee providing he did not bring goats or dogs or pigs with him. Now such animals run around the village, partly because of the Governor's letter, In general he calculates Akim is 50 square miles & if on average there are 500 inhabitants per square mile, then 0,5% of the population is baptised. Therefore preaching journeys are the soul of the work - if necessary to be carried on at the expense of school teaching - indeed the number of pupils in the local schools has decreased in the course of the year. He reverts at the end to a general discussion of the problem of women and conversion. He understands that for a marriage to be regarded as fully settled something like 18 dollars and several pieces of cloth must change hands. If this is the rule among Christians then their ceremony of blessing marriages can hardly be leading to their gaining respect. And what can be done for women who want to become Christian ahead of their husbands? If the latter want to exert pressure on the women they have simply to ask for the dowry to returned. Three cases where this could potentially occur are cited - 1. A woman called Pensian who for over six months had been asking her husband for permission to become a Christian - eventually she was assaulted by him with a knife, and the case was sent by the Okyenhene to Accra. 2. At Christmas one of the Okyenhene's wives came to be written down as a catechumen - she had already made approches during Lodholz' stay. Buck seems to think that it is very unlikely that anything can come of it - the Okyenhene may not put away any of his wives. 3. On New Year's Day the wife of a rich and important Kibi elder came to announce herself as a catechumen 'accompanied by the community elders, many Christians and many people from Kibi town.' She had been to services several times, but usually was beaten on her return. Imm. Boakye went to find out what the husband thought and the wife received white earth on this occasion. She was also asked for £10. Buck's advice in this case is to carry on quietly with baptismal instruction and refuse to go before a heathen court; he reckons that people will not bother to go to Accra. This, however, is a subject which must be quickly regulated, it is too explosive otherwise. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.31.XIII..150 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.31 - Ghana 1879: D-01.31.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report for the Year 1879 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 29.03.1880 Proper date: 29.03.1880 Description An account of the resource Reports inter al that one of their greatest battles is for cleanliness. He also takes a jaundiced look at the whole concept of mission schools in Akim. There are 4 Akim-born agents of the mission. Sakyi, Oware, Asumeng and Dako (Eisenschmid adds in the margin the dismissed Gyima and Adu, and there is of course also Ewi, dismissed from Kukurantumi). Of these four two were partly educated at the Kibi boarding school. Currently there are 2 Akims in the Akropong Middle School. The oldest class of the Kibi Boarding School recently handed over to the Akropong (Primary) Boarding School have simply run away, and the current oldest class of the Kibi Boarding School had not returned from the holidays in protest against Buck's telling them that they must go through the 5th and 6th classes before being accepted in the teacher's seminary. If the two Akims now in the middle school hold out to the end they will get 2 more Akim catechists in the course of the next ten year - for the current Kibi Class IV will take 10 years to graduate from the teacher's seminary. At this rate every Akim boy entering the middle school has cost £100 if the whole sums spent on schooling is divided among those who reach this level. The problem is severe, because a boy with 2 year's schooling can read and write, so that beyond that period the schooling is of little use unless he enters mission employment. Moreover the English school in Accra is proving very attractive. Some adjustment of the policy over boarding schools is needed. In another part of the report he writes that you cannot count the baptism of 8 boarding school pupils (as happened in 1879) as a victory . It is the fashion to become a catechumen after a year in the school, and you cannot refuse baptism to a boy who has been through the catechumens' class three times and who has not committed any serious irregularities. However there are many rogues in Akim who have been to the school and even been baptised. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.31.XIII..151 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.31 - Ghana 1879: D-01.31.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck's Report on the Kibi Boarding School in the Year 1879 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 02.03.1880 Proper date: 02.03.1880 Description An account of the resource Reports on the judicial process against Ata in Accra. Buck recalls that he had appealed to the Governor for the imposition of freedom to pursue crop and naimal husbandry and any type of craft in Akim, 'otherwise it would be possible for the missionaries to educate their new converts into being useful members of human society and busy and competent citizens.' Buck also had told him that slavery was continuing in Akim as it had before the Emancipation. Governor Ussher's reaction was to make the king answerable for allowing the peaceful pursuit of occupations, but also to point out that the missionaries were doing wrong in not bringing specific cases before him (the Governor). Buck therefore informed him of what he had seen when during a visit to Anyinam in October 1879 when following extortion by Ata a whole row of people were sold off into slavery or pawn. The man responsible for the sales was charged, but he in turn charged Ata of complicity in a wide range of incidents of this kind. After the government case had failed in most of the charges brought against him, however, Buck was brought down from Kibi and asked if he would assist the Government in making a sound case against Ata, this arrangements would be made to keep his paft in this confidential. He has agreed to help though he is pessimistic about the outcome. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..129 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 23.05.1880 Proper date: 23.05.1880 Description An account of the resource Reports the deportation and imprisonment of Ata in Lagos. Knows nothing about his successor unfortunately the Christian branch of the family is too a young-- the oldest is 16 and in the school in Akropong. He reckons the work in Kibi will be hindered somewhat by secret opposition on the part of the powerful party who supported the king. The 25 Kibi catechumens have remained faithful through the period of the trial, though when Buck returned to Kibi they were all scattered and it was going to take him some time to gather them all together for a baptism service. One of the Asiakwa people found guilty of involvement in ritual murder was John Ansah, who had been baptised in March 1878 - that is 3-4 years after the incident for which he was given 10 years deportation. That all this had happened with so little trouble showed 'that the king had very little ground under his feet'. He had repeatedly asked his chiefs to go to Accra but they had not, and the Begorohene rather left Accra - where he was on other business - hurriedly Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..130 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Buck to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 10.09.1880 Proper date: 10.09.1880 Description An account of the resource Report major increases in the population of school age children of Christians in Akim. The school is not the answer to the problem of what to do with them - inter al they are needed on the farms, and many of them are girls. They have already set up a Volksschule operating two hours a day, 7-9a.m, in Kibi. The Presbyters are prepared to put their authority behind this experiment, and indeed one of them has been made the teacher - John Amoa, who had previously attended the Kibi school and the Middle School. Syllabus (per week): Biblical history 3 hours, reading 4 hours, arithmetic 1 hour, memorising proverbs 1 hour, memorising songs 2 hours. They write that such a regime has a chance of getting somewhere, whereas 'a young teacher from another district who tries to enforce his wishes with that rest of our pupils, the 2-metre stick, would never succeed'. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XIII..135 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XIII. - Kjebi Title A name given to the resource Kibi's Stations Conference to the District and General School Inspectors Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 12.02.1880 Proper date: 12.02.1880 Description An account of the resource Reports Governor Usher's request, dated 10 February 1880 that Buck should come to Accra to serve as witness in the case against Ata. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.I..1 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.I. - General Chairmann (Präses) Title A name given to the resource Dieterle to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 05.04.1880 Proper date: 05.04.1880 Description An account of the resource Reports Buck is still in Accra. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.I..2 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.I. - General Chairmann (Präses) Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 28.05.1880 Proper date: 28.05.1880 Description An account of the resource The process ended on May 10th. The jury was almost completely made up of local people, Ata having 'forbidden' Europeans from serving. All the other points except complicity in the ritual murder were found against the prosecution by the jury - there is a belief about that they had been bribed by Ata's family. The king and the 3 others punished were put on a warship bound for Lagos on 4th may. His mother and a brother have not been able to leave Accra on account of the unpaid debts which they have incurred. Buck began the journey to Kibi on 10th May. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.I..4 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.I. - General Chairmann (Präses) Title A name given to the resource Eisenschmid to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 05.02.1881 Proper date: 05.02.1881 Description An account of the resource Reporting on the personnel on the station, the little Ramseyer child died in June, Dilger arrived in January. Mid-August Sakyi the catechist was moved to Begoro - he had himself asked for a transfer. In his place came Phillip Kwabi. Commenting on the change Ramseyer writes that Sakyi, despite their advice, always left something to be desired in his work. Kwabi is not as gifted as he was, but he has a desire to do his work, and a love for it. He has not got involved with other activities. His friendly way of doing things has made him many friends. The community has increased by 17 to 41. 13 people were newly baptised in Feb 1880, and only one has lapsed - an Asante who had to be excluded from the school because of disobedient and improper conducts. There were 10 more baptisms on Christmas. 3 'young people' and one woman are from Mpraeso (the woman is the wife of the elder of the community). The youths from Mpraeso are living on the mission station - two more underwent a long course of instruction, but discontinued it for no specific reason. Others among this group of baptisms were a house-boy of Dilger's, and a servant-girl of the Ramseyers, who been with them 3 years, and had given them much joy with her quiet character. She had persisted against considerable family opposition - unfortunately since her baptism her mother has died and she has had to go back to her house to help her sister look after the children. (Her Christian name is Salome).Another is Martin Dako from Pepiase - an ex fetish-carrier who was earmarked as his uncle's successor as fetish priest, but gave up his connection with the fetish despite family protests when he discovered his younger brother was trying to poison him. There were also 3 boys from the boarding school, whom Ramseyer had kept back from being baptised earlier. Two of the young men in the community had to be excluded in the early months of the year for following the flesh. They have appeared penitent and attended services regularly, but Ramseyer is afraid that their enforced stay in the town will have not helped them to live up to Christian standards. During the year they lost their first member of the community through death - Isaak Tieko. His hometown was Agogo in Asante Akim, but he was a pawn of a man in Kwahu. He died suddenly with a high fever and abdominal pains. Although reserved in his speech his quiet character and childlike faith caused the missionaries great joy. In the community here and there small steps of progress are to be seen. 'One point on which I lay especial emphasis is that our Christians should be always busy’. Like most of the Africans here they are not used to persistent work, and like to spend two or three days in each week laying around. At first they cannot understand what the object of it all is, but after a while they see that the object is to help their growth in grace. 3 of the Christians have houses on mission land now, the rest want to, but their heathen wives will not let them. Preaching journeys have been many - most of the towns and villages of Kwahu have been visited several times. There is evidence that this is having its effect – already they have baptised people from Mpraeso and Pepease, and a man from Aduamoa has been attending Sunday Services regularly. And when in Obo they heard that Mpraeso was to have a resident catechist, they petitioned for a teacher. Obo with its 5-6000 inhabitants would make a fine field for mission work in itself. He gives finally the latest political news from Kwahu. At the time of writing the report he was in Aburi having been advised to bring his wife to say there by the Governor. Dilger was waiting in Begoro to see what would happen. But they have just heard that a meeting of the Kwahu chiefs has decided to remain independent of Asante, and had sent 3 messengers to the Governor to inform him that rumours to the contrary were false. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XV..162 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Annual Report from Abetifi for 1880 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 19.06.1880 Proper date: 19.06.1880 Description An account of the resource Information about the Okomfo Anokye affair in Kumasi, and a translation of part of a letter from Owusu Ansah about it. At the end of Nov 1879 two emissaries came to Abene from Agogo, and created sensation in Kwahu and Akim. They claimed to be from Okomfo Anokye who had returned to Asante (a recently seen meteor was supposed to have brought him). He had with him all the traditional leading followers, Okomfo Odomangkama, Okomfo Dabe, Okomfo Owu, Okomfo Kyerekye, and he was going to set upright again the tall tree which had fallen down. The messengers greeted the Kwahus on behalf of this group, passed on the message about the tree, and informed them that Okomfo Anokye intended to visit Kwahu. If they wished him to visit them, he would come in twenty days. If they doubted the reality of this story they should consult Atieyan and Buruku, the two chief fetishes of Kwahu. Another sign that they were speaking the truth was that they had met a blck ape with golden sandals and sitting on a king's stool, who had given them messages for Okomfo Anokye. Although this created a sensation, there was some scepticism, especially on the part of the Abetifi chief, who thought it was a strategem to cover the re-establishment of the Asante overlordship. Ramseyer, despite his rule not to meddle in politics, allowed himself to send in the advice that whatever they intended to do in relation to Asante should be done in a straightforward and public way. Atieyan was asked for an opinion, which went that if Okomfo Anokye was coming he would come, and if he didn't come, then it did not signify anything. And after this the Kwahu chiefs simply sent the messengers back to Agogo. Ramseyer wrote to Owusu Ansah asking for information about the back ground to all this, and received in reply a letter which said: - In 1879 (presumably) a new fetish sect arose called ‘domangkama', and the high priest claimed that he was the resurrected Okomfo Anokye. He gave his followers the names of the dead kings of Asante - Osee Tutu, Kwaku Dua etc. - He won the confidence of many Asantes, was much feared and became with rich with many presents. - He (Ansah) has just heard from Asebi Antwi and Bosomuru Dwira, currently emissaries from the Asantehehe to the governor, that one morning they (the new Okomfo Anokye and his followers) forced their way into the palace, and took all arts of liberties, until suddenly one of them shot at the Asantehene. As a result, many of them have been put into irons. - It is said that the number of followers of the Okomfo Anokye was 1000 at its peak. - Owusu Ansah himself had warned the king about putting too much confidence in this movement - since the attempted assassination he has received a message from the King and his counsellors that his advice was good. At the end of the letter is a note that they had just taken a six fingered girl child onto the station compound at Abetifi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XV..159 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 03.07.1880 Proper date: 03.07.1880 Description An account of the resource Discussing his life so far on the Gold Coast, Dilger says that he has never been so happy in his life before as he is in Abetifi, despite fevers etc, and the death of the little Ramseyer child which affected him deeply. The six-fingered child was already by the writing of this letter baptised Martha. The bulk of the letter is taken up with an account of a preaching journey he did with Sakyi through 6 Kwahu towns. No date is given. In Aduammoa almost the whole population was in the bush collecting snails, so that only 10-12 people gathered for the preaching. In Obo now the missionaries are normally staying with a man who owns a compound, and who had been once a scholar at the Kibi school. So they stayed in a room with some European furniture - a bedstead, with mattress and pillows, a small table and a stool, a mirror, a lantern, and some pictures, including portraits of the German princes Wilhelm and Heinrich, and a portrait of the greatest of German doctors in his study – Dr. Frerichs. Both in Aduammoa and Obo he discusses preaching in terms of texts which came into his mind at the sight of the place and the people gathered. Here he preached on the words ‘I have many people in this town who know neither right nor left', having seen what a large crowd had gathered for the preaching. In Obo people were eager to hear, in Kyendumase a few minutes away they chattered and played during the preaching of Sakyi, and then he himself preached on the text 'Behold I make all things new'. In Obomeng he preached on the texts 5 Moses c33v3, and 'God so loved the world'. Mpraeso he describes as the place in Kwahu where they have made most impact. There was a large crowd, as still as the congregatien in a church at home. He preached on Isaiah 45vv22-3. On the way to Nkwatia the words came into his mind 'Lord, I wait for thy salvation', and he preached on the holiness of Abraham and the obligation of people in the time of fulfilment to achieve at least Abraham's level. Since this journey he has been on two more, especially devoted to the little villages, where you get 20-40 hearers. In such places preaching takes on the character of a friendly and homely chat. The people in such villages are simpler and more childlike than those in the towns. He has been especially impressed by the attentive hearing they got in two neat and clean villages Nteso and Sadae. His missionary life is not simply one of preaching, however. He is constantly being approached to intervene in various types of situation. When he was in Abene the King called him into a council to advise on the punishment of a man from Obo who had murdered a 10 year old boy. They were inhibited from executing him according to their law, because this might give them a bad reputation with the English government. And in the same place with his medical knowledge he was able to help a girl with an injured foot. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XV..160 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Dilger to Basel Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 24.10.1880 Proper date: 24.10.1880 Description An account of the resource Again reports a preaching journey in mid-October. Amama - could not decide on which of his prepared texts to preach, but met a fetish priest in the village, and so told the story of the Ark in the Philistines temple, and the catechist following him took the image a stage further by comparing the life of the Christian with what went on the Philistine temple. Afterwards they visited the wife of one of the Abetifi Christians who is refusing to contemplate becoming a Christian herself. They spent the night in Bukuruwa, having first preached, Dilger on the parable of the prodigal son. One man complained that he had come to bring 18 dollars to the grave of a relative - being a Christian had not stopped him dying, not had his debts been paid. In Nteso Dilger preached on the apostolic greeting - 2 Cor 13.13. On the way back from Nteso they fell in with a woman from Abetifi who had been there to make fetish - so Dilger told her the story of the man who went to Rome to get forgiveness, but found out that it wasn't necessary. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.32.XV..161 Subject The topic of the resource [Archives catalogue]: Guides / Finding aids: Archives: D - Ghana: D-01 - Incoming correspondence from Ghana up to the outbreak of the First World War: D-01.32 - Ghana 1880: D-01.32.XV. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Dilger to Basel