351 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: February 1890 Proper date: February 1890 Description An account of the resource A happy year - the total of the community in Kwahu stands at 219. Abetifi - Personnel - the Weber family arrived in the course of the year. The 22 Abetifi Christians baptised in July included several older people, and several wives of previously baptised husbands. With the additional chapel attendance of the past year they have decided to extend the chapel by 18 feet. There have been some exclusions of younger Christians who would not be corrected, but on the whole, while many of the community need guidance, they are very lovable, and obedient. Their frequent attendance at services indicates their love for God and their anxiety to belong to him. On the whole there is little anxiety for schooling in Kwahu still - after 15 years of Basel Mission presence, though in this year schools have been started in all the outstations, and there are individuals among the heathen who do understand the potential worth of education and bring their children insisting that no-one should be allowed to take them away. Ramseyer has been stressing the usefulness of having someone in a village who can read and write letters. Outstations: Asakraka - Teacher Asiedu has been stationed there runs a small school, Sunday services, and has a few baptismal candidates whom Ramseyer feels needs to be more decided in their attitudes before he is content with them. Pepease - Teacher Jonas Martinson (transferred from Afwerase) with a school, and 3 baptismal candidates. They also hear that there are several more people in the town who have waited until an actual mission settlement is near the town, fearing the chief who, though friendly often, has also shown himself hostile to people who have become catechumens (It seems as if the Pepease catechumens had been staying in Abetifi until Martinson took them back to Pepease). Mpraeso - a few people baptised, one excluded for not paying church tax and not attending services regularly. A school has been held fairly regularly, including children from Atibie. A small chapel built, over which the Christians spent not inconsiderable time. One big problem is that the Christians are away -for weeks at a time - either on hunting trips, or some other business. Bepong gives them least satisfaction - only two Christians have settled on mission land, and Ramseyer found even someone of whom they had had a good opinion (Abraham Sintim) felt that the missionaries should give them presents of money from time to time. They plan to withdraw the resident teacher to Mpraeso, making Kwabi travelling preacher in Asante Akim. Nkwatia gives them most joy - though one member has had to be excluded for unruliness. Obo - the first two Christians were baptised at the end of 1889 -their catechumenate had been long drawn out because of the almost nomadic life that the Obo people lead (Ramseyer cites particularly their visits to the farms at the foot of the Kwahu scarp). Asante Akim was twice visited, and the Asante area as far as Konongo where the Juaben king received them in a friendly way. They also visited Agogo where they had a very large congregation. Finally Ramseyer reports events surrounding the death of Ayiripe (the Nkwatiahene) and the despatch of Bowi the priest of Atei Yaw to the coast under suspicion of having poisoned him. The news of Ayiripe's death came on 21st December. It was sudden, and Ayiripe himself spoke the fear that he had been poisoned. Bowi fell under suspicion - one of his own people said he had been sent to Crepe to get poison for Ayiripe, and Bowi had promised to make a great man of him. Ramseyer expresses his scepticism since the methods cited were all the traditional ones – hanging it on the roof, or burying it under the floors in the doorway, or painting Ayiripe's hand with it. Ramseyer's interpretation of the causes of the enmity between Bowl and Ayiripe was in terms of Bowi's influence in Kwahu having declined only since the mission settled in Abetifi, and Ayripe's selling of land to the mission being both a major blow to Bowi’s prestige and at the same time an unusual gesture of independence by the Nkwatiahene. Nevertheless Ayiripe still feared Bowi – it is said that after Ayiripe had sold land to the Mission he gave him two sheep and falling at his feet begged him to take these as atonement. As the crisis developed all the Kwahu chiefs hurried to Nkwatia, suspicion was strengthened because it was said that Bowi was prepared to pay a large fine to save his head (Ramseyer mentions the figure of £180). Ayiripe's party, however, were enraged (Ramseyer names the chief leader as one Asante) the occasion was very tonse and there were several messengers sent to the station in Abetifi to ask the missionaries to give advice about what was to be done. In reply Kwabi and Boateng were sent once each with the message that the people should remember that they were under English law and it would be best to send the case down to the Coast. In the end Bowi was brought to Abetifi under the protection of the chief. A few days later a party of armed men from Nkwatis burst into Abetifi to try to kidnap Bowl - they found his hut surrounded by Bowi's men, also armed. The noise was terrific and the women of Abetifi were running onto their farms or onto the station with their possessions to get out of the way. To help the Abetifihene out of a difficult situation Ramseyer sent for the leader of the Nkwatia people who came willingly and assured him in a friendly way that they had come not to fight but to take Bowi off to the coast. He took the mission's advice to withdraw his people, but not to the coast, only to the water just outside Abetifi, where during the night they were joined by supporters from other Kwahu states, while in Abetifi the whole night was spent in dancing and shouting. When it had been agreed between the Abetifihene and Asante of Nkwatia how the convoy to the coast should be arranged, Bowi declared that he would rather blow himself up than go to the coast and there was great panic in the houses around the hut where he was as people tried to save themselves and their possessions Eventually Bowi agreed to go on condition that a number of Christians accompanied as far as the Akim frontier. The missionaries, says Ramseyer, did not want to be mixed up in the event but for the sake of peace in the land they agreed, and Christians went as far as Nsutam with him. A few days later an officer with 40 Hausa arrived to investigate - he had been sent in response to a letter from the ‘King' to the Governor (it isn’t indicated which king – previously in the report the Abetifihene had been described tout court as the king). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.V..86 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Report for the Year 1889 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: January 1890 Proper date: January 1890 Description An account of the resource By the end of the year the numbers in the Boarding part of the school are 18 - and there were 21 day boys. (This is a considerable change from earlier when the numbers of day boys were usually c. 7) Discusses briefly the difficulty they have because they have no special buildings. Also clearly believes in firmness. When the oldest class did not do the written work he set them he set out (after this had happened three times) to punish them (this, though he does not way this clearly was corporal punishment). Two ran away, and one has simply not come back. In another case he refused to pay chop-money for 2 months on the grounds that the pupil was not working hard enough - this particular one also caused him trouble by running off with his clothes to his mother on Saturdays instead of washing them himself. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.V..87 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource G. Weber's Report for the Boy's Boarding School for the Year 1889 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: 14.05.1889 Proper date: 14.05.1889 Description An account of the resource Without further remark Tschopp reports meeting two Mohammedans when he was en route for Peteko. The plant used to stun the fish in the Afram is carried there 'in loads' when it is needed. In Pepease there had been a fire which had destroyed the roofs of more than 60 houses at the end of 1888 - the roofs had been replaced, and the houses are now marked out by their blackened beams. The interior of the house of the Pepease chief is described in some detail - on the wall behind the chief hung a fine piece of cloth and also horse’s tails. Beside him was a protective fetish - a piece of wood standing in the ground and on it cowries and magical material. Before him, in a corner stood the ‘usual’ Nyamedua (Tschopp think that it was believed that God lived in the Nyamedua, or at any rate came to live there at specific times). In the pot on the tree fork were one or two plants 'which are held to be holy': into the pot on feast days goes the head feet intestines and blood of a white hen. On the tree was hung a 1 1/2 metre length of strong chain, with a padlock - by means of this chain God is said to give the chief gold. (Tschopp says he took the opportunity offered by this fetish to tell them about his beliefs - this was somewhat unexpected he felt, but as usual, he was listened to very attentively.) The Pepease market is described - on sale were Shea Butter, salt, eggs, fish, plantains, pot, powder, lead, and the fibres from pineapple or palm leaves used for making string and nets. Nearby stood a fence with hanging on it a bundle like a horse’s tail of fibres from plantain stars. And by the fence stood a man with his forehead bound with a piece of cloth, and purple-red feather bound to it at each temple. The feathers and the bundle of fibres were signs of mourning, and that the man had lost his wife or one of his wives. At the Afram side of Pepease was the ‘usual’ Dente mound, newly painted and roofed. On the expedition Tschopp was eating the local food, but had also bread and Swiss cheese, and was drinking cocoa. In Abenase he found some women spinning cotton – and 4 men with Kola nut loads. Tschopp gives the cost of a 50 lb load in Kwahu 7-8 Francs; in Salaga 36-40 francs. The nuts grow in Kwahu, but much more in Asante Akim. They bought provisions in the hamlet Kotoso, since Tschopp had heard that there were none to be bought in Peteko (There is a description of the Afram plains, including the point that the Grass is burnt every year). Noticing Buruku Tschopp says several towns serve him. Some of the schoolboys collected the cowries scattered by another (unnamed) fetish - a whitened ant-hill at the side of the path. Fish traps in the Afram. The scholars were travelling with shoes and socks. Tschopp describes them as singing part of the way. The Afram shrine is described as being near Peteko. In Peteko a hen could be bought for 90 cents, and a big piece of buffalo flesh (dried) which would serve the whole party till for two meals cost 2 francs 50. Travelling back from Peteko to Tafo, at approximately 15 minutes before they arrived in Tafo they passed 22 round earth mounds and from there on the way was cleaned - the Tafo women do this in honour of their fetish Buruku. In Tafo he mentions two white-painted shrines for Buruku and a Dente mound. The chief is friendly but rarely comes to street preaching; it was difficult to collect a congregation for street preaching and only some of those were attentive. In the evening a heavy storm interrupted the ceremonies following the death of someone that afternoon. In an attempt to drive it away people were running around waving their hands at the cloud and shrieking. He estimates 1,200 inhabitants in Tafo. From Tafo they went to Nteso where they had almost the whole village as congregation (they arrived during a palaver) - at the entrance to the village was a leap of plants held to be sacred, ashes, etc. all devoted to driving away illness. In Asakraka he describes an Odom revered as fetish saying this was one of several seen on the journey, and another Dente shrine which he re-emphasises is to be found in every village. They had a large attentive congregation - Tschopp finding he enjoyed preaching to them. En route for Abetifi they passed through Amama, an Abetifi farming village, and near Abetifi Tschopp saw a large cow, which he remarks was the first he had seen for 2 years. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.V..83 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Tschopp's Report on a Journey with the Scholars to Peteko in late March 1889 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: 10.07.1889 Proper date: 10.07.1889 Description An account of the resource Gives the monthly expenditure for chop money as £1=8=0 (=35 Francs) - divided among 20 of the 25 boys in the Boarding School. Discussing the work in the school, Tschopp is most satisfied with the learning of biblical texts and hymns. Arithmetic has not gone so well, geography better - they boys are drawing reasonable maps of the most ‘important countries’ but ‘it would be better if they had geography books in their hands’. In English they have been having difficulties translating expressions which are scarcely translatable, and learning the names of objects the pupils have never seen is also difficult. Handwork is mainly clearing the station of grass, and keeping the paths clean. Tidyness leaves much to be desired - the pupils on the whole have a desire to learn, and live together peacefully. Often they spend time in their free period (5p.m. to 7 p.m.) singing. Every month they made small preaching journeys. Of the two Abetifi boys who went to the Begoro middle School, one (Imml. Agyepong) died at the beginning of 1889, but the other is carrying on with the course. A Ramseyer subscript adds that they hope now to have a Community School in Abetifi as well, to which the girls of Christian families can go as well as the boys. He hopes that with Government encouragement of education their schools will no longer be so starved of pupils. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.V..84 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.V. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Tschopp 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: October 1889 Proper date: October 1889 Description An account of the resource Part of this report is printed as an appendix to the 1890 Annual Report (pp83ff). Additional material: In Mpraeso, where preaching has been like pouring water on the rocks, there were 4 adults and 3 children baptised in June. In the Abetifi baptism service reported in the printed material, 5 adults were from Nkwatia, 3 from Pepease, th rest from Abetifi. In connection with the ex-follower of Bowi who was baptised, (Martin Dako), Ramseyer reports on Bowi and the Atie Yaw cult. In particular he could not find out who exactly it was who impersonated Atie Yaw, though he knows it is not Bowi, since Dako had seen Bowi and Atie Yaw at the same time. Dako had often been sent to a place by Atie Yaw, carrying his cloak (of either dark or light material), his sandals, and his umbrella. This always happened at nightfall, and Dako was told simply to lay them on the road at the point where the forest ended. Bowi would then shout 'Oworoma! Biribe aye me! Oworoma! - at which Atie Yaw would appear. The latter speaks in a way which cannot be understood, and in a half-singing voice, although he also talked now and again in Twi, calling Dako to do something, for example. Ramseyer regards this is confirmation of what the missionaries had always suspected, namely that Atie Yaw was really a man disguised (by his voice and) by his cloak, umbrella held down over his face, and some people say disguised too by a pair of hairy gloves. Ramseyer is apparently visiting Bowi from time to time, though the latter always avoids a heart-to-heart talk over the problems of the heart. He is 70 years old, his feet swollen. He has said to Ramseyer that all his people will become Christians soon. At the time of writing the report he was in a hamlet receiving treatment for his feet - Ramseyer explains the theory of his being isolated in case someone is in fact making him ill by medicine. They have managed to make a beginning with schools in the 6 outstations - the scholars number 7, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15. This is connected with the fact that they are providing a service in translating and writing letters, and the chiefs want to make some return. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.51.V..85 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-01.51 - Ghana 1889: D-01.51.V. - 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: 21.10.1890 Proper date: 21.10.1890 Description An account of the resource This is a translation of a Twi report of Philip Kwabi's dated 5 June 1890 on his work in Asante Akyem. He had been preaching in 32 Asante Aykem and 7 Kumawu villages. In Asankara on his way from Mpraeso to Bompata (on first going into the area to preach) he had preached to the people about the true freedom for poor sinners which is to be found in Christ, and the way to find it. In Bompata on the first Sunday he preached twice on the street, and the chief and his elders and the young people all listened attentively. Furthermore, the young men and the sub-chief Ata (with whom Kwabi lodged) were really enthusiastic. .The chief himself is more cautious. Kwabi asked him once why he did not love the gospel, and he replied 'It is not that I have no joy in what you are saying. But I have to attend to the good of the whole district. If I arrange for you to settle here and good comes out of the arrangement, what more could Ihave done? It is not that I do not love the word of God.' Kwabi remarks, however, that this is all a lie: he is afraid that his slaves will seize their freedom and no longer obey him if a teacher settles here. Reporting a long trek: Kwabi travelled Wankyi-Moso-Patriensa (in Amanfo Yaw Sapong is building a new town) Konongo-Odumase-Konongo. On this second visit to Konongo Kwabi met the chief Gyamebiri, a brother of Yaw Sapong, who said 'You know that we are under Koforidua and that there are already teachers and preachers there who will come to us in good time. My town is not big enough to have, teachers from different missionary societies. I understand what you say, and know that you fear us because of the troubled in Akyem'. Dwaso, where he had to wait till evening to meet chief and people, everyone was out working on their farms. The chief said they would be interested in the Mission if Yaw Sapong allowed this, they were the slaves of Yaw Sapong. Obogu, where again it was evening before people returned to the village, they were not attentive when he preached, and refused to respond to his advances about mission work, saying their chief was absent, and without him they could not say anything. Dampon Asuboa (where they said it would be no use unless a teacher settled there with them), Asankore and Bompata. He also travelled to Kumawu and Agogo. The replies he got to his questions mostly followed the line that the mission should begin work in Kumasi. If they gave permission for mission work on their own authority, they would find themselves having trouble with Nsuta and Dwabeng. The Agogo chief was the exception; he would not even allow preaching, and Kwabi opines that he still holds to ritual murder, and fears he would lose his slaves if mission work started. Müller continues with a summary of Kwabi’s report of 5 August 1890 on the subject of where in Asante Akyem it would be most suitable to centre mission work. Kwabi made a short list of possible centres from which Mission work in Asante-Akyem could be carried on: Bompata, Dwansa, Dome and Kyekyebisa. Bompata and Dwansa he selects as the most centrally placed of these two. Bompata is a good place from which to reach Asankara, Asuboi, Dampong, Wankyi Mooso, Krofual and all the other places in the direction of Obogu and Odumase. The chiefs in all these places allow to preach, but the chief of Bompata wants to know nothing about the gospel because he wants to put himself under Kumase again. His people and the sub-chiefs are against this. The chief of Adomfe would welcome a Basel Mission settlemnt in his town, and so would his people. There is a fetish priest in Adomfe, however, Kwame Pong, who exercises the same powers as Bowi extorting money from people, and having them killed. Dwansa is a good place from which to serve Krofua, Kykyebiase, Dome, Anisua, Anyabeneponase, Wiawso, Agogo, Patriensa. In Krofua the people are upset that it has been so long since the mission made a promise to them (probably to have someone posted in Asante-Akyem). Amponsa, Agogohene, forbade Kwabi to preach in his town. Ramseyer had urged him to preach there, however, so he preached nevertheless, although the number of people listening turned out to be not so large as previously. Amponsa ought to welcome him with real joy, because it was the mission who helped him when he was surrounded by Asante Akyems threatening to destroy his state, and arranged peace. The small population in Agogo would be happy if the mission placed a teacher there: They even promised him free lodging till a new house was built for him. Kumawu, Kwamang, and Bepow are all under King Prempeh in Kumasi. The people in each town listened with real attention to his sermon. But they are worried about being punished by the Asantehene because of this. The chief at Bepow would not allow him to preach a second time. On the grounds that he could not be punished for listening to a first sermon, having never heard the message, but a second sermon could be really dangerous. He and the other chiefs urged that things should be done in an orderly way, and that the mission should arrange things with Kumasi: this message should be passed on to Kwabi's superior and they would heed it ‘if they mean well by us'. Kwabi remarks that he shared the same opinion they should try again in Kumasi since the Abetifi station has awakened great jealousy on the part of the Asantehene. Kwabi continues that if they are to try again in Kumasi it should be with someone other than Ramseyer, since everyone believes he is responsible for the destruction of the city by the English. 'It's the same the whole world over - no-one will admit his own mistakes, and everyone feels someone else is to blame'. 'The disadvantage in moving forward into Asante Akyem is that the Asantes are continuously planning to bring Asante Akyem under subjection again - at the moment Asante is planning an invasion in the area on the other side of the Tano in order to bring back tribes which have taken refuge in the Protectorate. Ramseyer adds the remark that the Kwahus also thought he as a town-destroyer once, but know better now, and peoples' minds can be changed. Kwabi makes the following comments on Odumase. They would like a teacher and listened very carefully to his preaching. But Yaw Sarpong will not let them 'He loves darkness' and fears with a teacher in Odumase the Governor would hear of his activities. Muller himself adds two comments. On Kwabi’s posting to Adukrom Samuel Boateng went to Kwahu to take his place, and is not at all happy at being supposed to work in Asante Akyem. Müller wonders if Asante Akyem should be treated as a single mission area with Kotoku. But thinks that this would be a mistake since the direct route goes through the very difficult country of the Pra valley, and the practicable route from the Kotoku area goes along the Saltpond/CapeCoast-Kumasi road, which is outside the Basel Mission area. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.52a.I..49 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-01.52a - Ghana 1890: D-01.52a.I. - General District Conference for the Gold Coast Title A name given to the resource J. Müller 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.52a.II. 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-01.52a - Ghana 1890 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-01.52a.III. 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-01.52a - Ghana 1890 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-01.52b.IV. 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-01.52b - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Denkra (Agona Area) 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-01.52b.V. 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-01.52b - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource District Conference Ga-Adangme 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-01.52b.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-01.52b - Ghana 1890 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-01.52b.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-01.52b - Ghana 1890 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-01.53.I. 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-01.53 - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource District Conference Akwapim-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-01.53.II. 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-01.53 - Ghana 1890 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-01.53.III. 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-01.53 - Ghana 1890 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.IV. 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-01.53 - Ghana 1890 Title A name given to the resource Begoro 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: 18.02.1891 Proper date: 18.02.1891 Description An account of the resource Much of this report is published as an appendix to the 1891 Annual Report, pp 52ff. Additional material: Botoku, like Kpando, is pressing hard for a school. Summarising his assessment of the significance of development, Müller writes that this does not develops anywhere out of a longing to the truth, or quieten an inner unhappiness. But people often say that their children must learn something. Indeed they feel a need to know precisely the things they do not need - the outer characteristics of school training are what appeal to them. In the Anum area, 13 adults were baptised in Anum (including some wives of Christians) and 3 adults in Tsate. They have had a series of problems during the year – marriage conflicts (between partners), conflicts between families, and the restraining of an Anum Christian fail marrying a 14 year old daughter to a Boso man (the order of the community gives 16 as the minimum age for marriage). These were mostly settled, but in Boso one of the elders, indeed, the first in time, most gifted, and best known of them, was excluded from Communion and deprived of his office on account of his revealing himself as a betrayer of the Christians. Müller offers a rather disillusioned description of the Christians - they have inherited apathy and the phlegmatic character. For example, few of the awakened who were baptised as boys or youths and have learned to read, take trouble to read the scriptures for themselves in their mother tongue regularly. They have also few assistants who do not teach their baptismal candidates superficially, or who teach with a view to bringing them to the experience of spiritual power. Most teach the articles of faith, the Ten Commandments, the Lord as Prayer, and the Baptismal Declaration, by rote. There is no urge to explain among their assistants, nor an urge to know among their ordinary members. They do have an urge to pray - and after the prayer hours you can it be asked 'Master did you hear me pray? Was it right how I prayed’?' He wonders how this state of things could be bettered - have the people suffered too much under one kind of preaching or have they not been properly trained or is their childhood experience in their families, with its little intellectual stimulation responsible? Reporting on schools, he writes that all their schools in Anum and the north have to spend their first year teaching Twi. 6 boys from the Anum-Boso area are in Akropong, most supported by their families. Changes in local personnel have occurred - Mesak Gyadu died, and Herman Amaning is seriously ill in his home town. Benjamin Adae has started work as teacher in Ntwumuru. Gottfried Martin joined the ranks of missionaries on the station while Brother Lieb had to be repatriated very much weakened by yellow fever. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..145 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-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Müller's Report for the Year 1890 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: 15.01.1891 Proper date: 15.01.1891 Description An account of the resource Discussing Gyadu, Clerk writes that he was meek and lovable, though never properly loved and respected by the Anum community. Clerk offers as explanation for this the fact that he never quite got over his old weakness for drink, and when he had drunk too much his conversation led to strife. Müller adds in the margin that he also informed the missionaries about events in the community which it wanted to keep concealed. Discussing the call to Buem he reports that one complication is that the Buems want to be part of the English colony. Clerk seems sympathetic, he writes that it is questionable whether they could work as well as they do if Anum were in the German area, and although he is not certain, it may be that in 'German' Kpando the slave trade has revived. Much of the report is concerned with Akwamu (assigned to Clerk from the period of Martin's arrival), but he also writes at the end about the Anum community, which it seems has had a troubled year. Clerk writes in a disillusioned tone, about the Christian village being overgrown with weeds, and the houses in it not well built, in spite of the missionaries' efforts towards this. There had been trouble in the year over church tax, freewill offerings, and the Christians have just refused to pay school-tax. However, a number of Christians have given a good account of themselves on their death-beds. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..146 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-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Report for the Year 1890 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: 24.01.1891 Proper date: 24.01.1891 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..147 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-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report for the Year 1890 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: 24.02.1890 Proper date: 24.02.1890 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.53.VI..138 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-01.53 - Ghana 1890: D-01.53.VI. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report on Travelling in Buem