366 20 77970 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-01.67.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-01.67 - Ghana 1897 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: 15.02.1897 Proper date: 15.02.1897 Description An account of the resource In mid-January Missionary Kirchner had arrived in Kumasi as a builder-brother, partly against the advice of Müller and against his instructions to remain in Abetifi, but with the encouragement of Mohr, and because he knew of Ramseyer's difficult position. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..142 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Kirchner 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: 03.03.1897 Proper date: 03.03.1897 Description An account of the resource Detailing the stationing of local agents of the mission posted to Asante. Teacher Mensa - to Kwaso, where he has received a friendly reception. Teacher Isaac Tete to Ahenkurow, though to date he has not been able to set up a school through the absence of the chief. Catechist Kumi to Affidwase - a fine opportunity to work with the nearby towns of Asokore and Oyoko. Catechist Akyea to Dwaso. Teacher Obeng to Nsuta, Catechist Otu, will go to Dwabeng. Ramseyer told Yaw Sarpong that to have a catechist he must be prepared to find 30 pupils. He has also, because of the lack of helpers, and the lateness of their arrival, appointed two Abetifi Christian evangelists - Emm. Agyei and Stefano Abankwa. These people were graduates of the Abetifi school, had shown, signs of inner life, and were in Kumasi in connection with trading. He sent them initially to Nsuta and Dweso, and since the arrival of the proper staff, Hall sent Abankwa to Kwamang, and Agyei either to Bomasi (Boamang?) or Ankaase or Abrodeku. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..143 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer to Müller 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: 08.03.1897 Proper date: 08.03.1897 Description An account of the resource Includes the news that Zellweger is spending time on dressing wounds and other medical work. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 19.03.1897 Proper date: 19.03.1897 Description An account of the resource It considers the impact on the Kumasi building plans of the very high cost of building in Kumasi and includes the point that in order to try to improve the supply of water for the station, Ramseyer had had a well sunk 20' in a neighbouring valley, though without success. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Station's Conference Minute 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: 24.05.1897 Proper date: 24.05.1897 Description An account of the resource In a postscript dd. 26 May 1897 Ramseyer reports the news of Samory and the death of Ferguson, writing briefly that there is a wish broad in Asante that Samory might free them from the English, and nothing that there are very few troops in Kumasi. (George Ekem Ferguson (14 July 1864 – 7 April 1897) also known as Ekow Atta, was a Fante civil servant, surveyor and cartographer who worked in the British colony of Gold Coast) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 29.06.1897 Proper date: 29.06.1897 Description An account of the resource Report of a missionary journey south and east of Kumasi. The bulk of is printed in Le Missionaire 1897, pp70-71. Additional material: The paths were on the whole well-kept. He visited Juaso (Dweso) now ruled by the queen-mother and some elders in the absence of the chief, exiled with Prempeh. He had been one of Prempeh’s main supporters, and a firm opponent of the English policies. The catechist is very welcome in Kwafo, except among a few of the older people who long for the majestic things of their pagan days. Only 20 pupils have been gathered for the school, however, and there are as yet no baptismal candidates. In Kwaaso there were 16 pupils in the school – Ramseyer pressed for at least 30. En route from Juaso to Kwaaso they passed through a number of villages, the biggest of which was called Sienimpong. They passed 5 small villages on bowomtwe before arriving at Brodekoano, The first of these was called Obo. There is a large population around Bosomtwi. En route for Kumasi from Bosomtwi, he reports that he visited Kokofuo. The town is in ruins and the people scattered in Akim, but the chief had visited him in Kumasi and begged for a teacher at least for later. He found him building a temporary house. Gyasan is an Asante from Afidwa who had been a member of the Abetifi for a long time - more than ten years before he had had to be excluded, but later had married a friendly wife and since then had lived to the missionaries’ great satisfaction. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..153 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 20.06.1897 Proper date: 20.06.1897 Description An account of the resource He has asked the British Government for financial assistance over the orphanage he is running for slave children. There is a letter from Ramseyer in the Sklavenfreund pp162-165 dd. 14 June 1897, reporting on the situation in the freed slave colony, and discussing the advent of a married couple hoping to set up a freed slave home alongside the tiny English garrison in Kintampo. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..156 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 26.07.1897 Proper date: 26.07.1897 Description An account of the resource Includes the accounts of the slave-home for the period 1st January – 5th July 1897, mostly “on biscuits”. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi 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: 26.01.1898 Proper date: 26.01.1898 Description An account of the resource A long-standing woman member of the community had had to be excluded for 'falling' with an excluded man and refusing to live with her husband - Perregaux had in time past held her up as an example. She was part of a reduction .of 4 in the Abetifi community due to exclusions - 42 members had moved away, 18 of them into Kumasi, including the families of 3 evangelists (one of Ramseyer's new evangelists was a man who had cared for Perregaux during his Nkoranza illness). He is starting his Evangelists' School in Abetifi - it is partly intended for boys of good character who passed through the Akropong schools, but were not giften enough to go into the Seminaries. The founding of the School is put into the context of an acute shortage of local help. In Obomeng, for example, the chief had been asking for a teacher for so long that he eventually asked the Methodists to help – they sent one, but he did not last long. Perregaux wonders if the Akwapim people should not cut down their own requirements a little. He cites the Abiriw congregation, only 2 minutes from Akropong, which has its own catechist. (Müller notes that Abiriw has a school with 50 pupils and a Christian Community of 150). Five of the pupils are well past school age. One from Abetifi had been being coached to be an evangelist some time before, but had put away his wife and taken another 7 years before whereupon he had been excluded for a time. He is a carpenter. Another had been through the Akropong elementary school and the Government School Accra, and had been a shop keeper in the Congo for a time before coming back saying he found no joy in that calling. In Pepease there has been difficulty, and things are at a standstill. The chief there is feared - hence the movement of a number of people onto the station, He also knows how to win peoples' loyalty, however - and thus an elderly Pepease Christian has just returned to the town in order to take up a sub-chief's stool. His only recently baptised Christian wife from Abetifi has refused to go with him. At the same time a Presbyter used the money entrusted to him for the costs of building the chapel to pay his brother's debts - he has had to be excluded and has gone to Kumasi to try to earn the lost money (Fr. 125). Catechist Martinson is too old to be able to handle everything, including the school, satisfactorily. Nkwatia - a notorious fetish priest has become a catechumen. In Tafo Mmesekua, the priest of Buruku died in the course of the year - Perregaux evidently hopes this will improve the prospects for the Christian community in Tafo. In Bepong 2S adults and 22 children were baptised, and there are still 24 catechumens. Perregaux offers no explanation of this occurrence, other than that Catechist Boakye is an industrious man, however, he had never succeeded in holding a school together - he usually tries to send pupils to Mpraeso but they never continue with that for long. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux' Report for the Year 1897 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: 07.01.1898 Proper date: 07.01.1898 Description An account of the resource There are more than 100 children in the Abetifi schools. Jost comments on the monitor in charge of the younger forms 'his method reminds one often of the schoolmaster of times past. His teaching is very much a matter of drilling, rather than drawing out the understanding of the pupils’. His stick - with which he strikes right and left - is hardly ever out of his hand. He has forced Jost to warn him that children should not be estranged from the school, but should be won to come to it with happy expectation and enjoyment. 3 or 4 Abetifi pupils will go to the Begoro Middle School in the coming academic year. At Queen Victoria's Jubilee the boys put on a demonstration of singing, gymnastics, and military exercises, looking, as they performed with and sabres 'like a half company of Hausa soldiers'. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..136 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Friedrich Jost's Report on the Abetifi Boarding School in 1897 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: 22.01.1898 Proper date: 22.01.1898 Description An account of the resource This is partly printed as an annex to the 1898 Annual Report pp 51.52. Additional material: The Obrechts arrived early in the year to take over from the Haasis family, due to go on leave. The Mission Festival in 1897 was held in Nkwatia at the same time that the new and enlarged Nkwatia chapel was consecrated. At the same festival 20 heathens were baptised, and 3 excluded Christians received back into full membership. Abetifi community: 9 heathens were baptised, 4 of them schoolboys. One man who had been under baptismal instruction for two years and had even built his house on the station had to ta have his baptism postponed because he undertook a slave-selling expedition into Akwapim for a heathen friend from Abetifi, taking there a child which was sold for £5-10. The missionaries have warned him to undo this deed or they will have to report it to the colonial government. 3 excluded Christians were re-accepted, including an elderly man, Daniel Ntim. He had earlier been excluded for quarrelsomeness and fighting while drunk, and had since foresworn all intoxicating drinks, taking for a time to coffee but giving that up because milk and sugar cost too much, and in the end drinking only water (It emerges from this man's story that in the course of the year a Christian had been killed in a hunting accident). He accounts for 25 of the 42 people who had moved away from Abetifi and thus been lost to the community under the headings moved to Asante 18, and to the Begoro Middle School 7. During the year there had been difficulty with the kindergarten in Abetifi. The longstanding teacher, Augustine Meyer, moved- away to Agogo to prepare for her marriage in the house of her father. Her successor was Regina Gyamera, daughter of Asssistant Catechist Tieku of Asakraka. It soon emerged that she had had sexual relations with one of the missionaries' servants, at which Catechist Tieku went to the Okwahuhene for damages of £50 - hence his posting away to Akim. The missionaries felt that he had shown unnecessary lust for money in this situation, as well as having broken the regulations by going outside the mission's own judicial processes. Eventually a teacher's daughter from Akim, - Rosine Donko, was appointed. Of the 8 excluded, 4 were on account of sexual misdemeanours and 4 on account of unbiddableness. One of the former 4 was a man who had committed adultery with two Christian wives on the station, admitted the fault himself, and shortly afterwards lost his real wife in childbed. The community regarded this as a punishment from God. Mpraeso - new missions land has been bought on which the Christians from Mpraeso and Obimpekurom are at work - the Christians from Atibie have their own chapel on their mission land. This is partly because of tension between the Christians and the Obimpekurom people over a charge of murder preferred against Joseph Sesu, the Presbyter of the Mpraeso Christians. He had been seen in a part of the forest with his gun on the same day that an Mpraeso man his shot. It soon turned out, however, that the Obimpekurom people were doing their best to get this notable Christian found guilty and the missionaries spent some time in the various court proceedings in which it turned out that Sesu had not shot his gun that day, and that he was already at home when a shot, presumed to be the one which killed the man, was heard. The Kwahuhene sent the case to Accra, but after an ‘unbelievably short hearing' he was sent back a free man. The Christians have even gone so far as to fear being poisoned now, however, hence their business to leave Obimpekurom. Obo - Obrecht estimates Obo's population at 5,500, and that of Tweneduruase at 1,500. The new catechist is Thomas Hall, a young man, in the early months of 1898 marrying Augustine Meyer. He has 7 Christian pupils and 2 heathens in the school - one old woman was baptised in the course of the year, while on the other hand 2 Christians died, and 3 were excluded. One of these was a woman who was caught stealing yams from a plantation - partly because of the anger of the townspeople at the whole community because of this she was not only excluded, but also had to walk around the town preceded by a Christian ringing a bell and shouting at intervals to the people to know that because of the theft she had been excluded. The Obo people have started to have a new chapel erected because the adult men are mostly away on the rubber trade, and because in any case Kwahu people do not know how to build in swish, they have brought people in from Krobo to do the work. Several young men have built their houses on mission land in the course of the past year. Akwasihu - no baptisms and two deaths, one of a leper. The community responded to the call to build their houses on mission land only when it was threatened to celebrate the Communion no more till they did. The new catechist Dwamena is energetic, and has built a model road from the village to his house. He has managed to collect 7 pupils for a school, but the chief here (as in Tweneduruase and Obo) has responded to requests for pupils only with promises. Asante Akim - Altogether over 240 Christians, and a fair number of catechumens. The first (perhaps Kwabi) local agent sent to Asante Akim returned after a short period and said that the people were so lazy, corrupt, and apathetic, that there would never be Christians there. They are not so industrious as the Kwahus, like the Akims they work in the forest, collecting rubber, which gives them enough money to enable them to spend a lot of time without working. But his forecast about Christian progress has been put to shame. In -Bompata a new chapel has been roofed, and 24 adults and 20 children baptised. Many of these are from deep in the interior - the 'Hausa lands', brought to Asante Akim as slaves. 18 Christians have moved away from Bompata in the course of the year, most have returned to places where they were resident earlier. Catechist Boateng is pleased with the work of the new teacher Isaak Kwakye, and regrets the damage caused by the 'fall' of the earlier teacher M. Donko. He (Boateng) enjoys great respect and trust in Asante-Akim. In Agogo there are 31 catechumens, some of whom have begun to build their houses on the mission land. Being away so much on rubber trading they have not come forward in baptismal instruction very much. Several important men have become catechumens. There is much struggle between the chief and Catechist Meyer, and indeed the chief and the Christians generally. Patriensa - only 3 baptisms, 2 of old schoolboys, and one of the wife of a Christian. 2 Christians were excluded through sexual misdemeanours. Dwaso - after the large increase in the previous year numbers stationary - mission land has been built, but Assistant Catechist Doama has not building going on it very successfully, and indeed is asking for extra money to help build his own house. In Odumase things have taken a turn for the better with the death of the old and hostile chief, and the appointment of a new one who it seems has been for a time in Akwapim and understands rather more of the implications of the presence of the mission. He has cleaned the path to the teacher's house, is setting out to repair it, and since there is also a catechumen there the missionaries propose to transfer to Odumase Teacher W. Atara from Patriensa, and replace him by Assistant Catechist J. Amoa from Obogu. In Obogu there has been a teacher for a year, but he still lives in a dirty rented room, and has hardly any pupils. Of his 4 catechumens, only one - a cripple - is serious. So they have decided to take the teacher away again, the cripple will go to Dwaso to live, and when the Obogu people protested they set as minimum conditions for the re-installation of a teacher that he should have a proper house built for him by the town, and 20-30 children actually collected for the school. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..137 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Obrecht's Report for the Year 1897 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 1897 Proper date: February 1897 Description An account of the resource Includes a request for £12 to cover the costs of replacing the Abetifi Mission House fence, never renewed since first put up. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Station Conference Minutes 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: 05.02.1897 Proper date: 05.02.1897 Description An account of the resource Is a protest against the ruling which he has just heard of, that Kwahu boys in the Begoro Middle School will in future have to provide their own money for food. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..140 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - 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: 21.07.1897 Proper date: 21.07.1897 Description An account of the resource In this half year there were 106 pupils - the first time the numbers had passed 100 - and the building put up in 1894 is already too small. 26 of this number are girls, 65 boys in the boarding section. Of the boys whose home is in Abetifi 20 have parents in the mission station, and 16 come from the heathen town. Jost remarks that he can see no difference between the two, and that the schoolboys are really very like those in Europe - perhaps a bit more stubborn and crafty. At the beginning of the year they uncovered – apparently with the help of pupils in the senior class who had erected the night-time movements involved in enjoying the booty – a formally organised band of hen-thieves among some heathen pupils - they were expelled, though Jost was very sorry to do this in view of the fact that they would return to heathen homes. The scholars planted a maize planatation only after constant supervision, but built the fence so badly and looked after it so apathetically that there was no harvest at all - the sheep and goats had damaged it too badly. He learned from this that his African boys have little interest in working, and it is a difficult problem for a teacher to bring his pupils to any understanding of the worth of work. 'We want to make these youths not only Christian and pious, but also hard-working members of their nation. We follow the Evangelical principles through Christianity to work.’ Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..133 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Jost's Report on the Abetifi School in the First Half of 1897 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: 20.08.1897 Proper date: 20.08.1897 Description An account of the resource Includes his outline plans for the Evangelists’ School. He has found few people living as simple Christians with some earlier education - he names the three as Chr. Kwasi Bo from Abetifi, Jos. Obeng from Kukurantumi, Imm. Badu from Akim Akropong. All three married. Kurz, from the Begoro school has also sent him the names of 8 pupils who might go into this kind of further education. An article by Perregaux in Le Missionaire 1897(pp 86-87) contains some information about Abetifi and the day of penitence celebrated recently (Letter dd. 4 October 1897). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..131 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Perregaux 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: 08.11.1897 Proper date: 08.11.1897 Description An account of the resource Reports, up to September, a serious drought, with foodstuff being brought into Abetifi from many hours away. He himself ascribes the lack of rain to the cutting down of the forest in Kwahu, partly in pursuit of food farms (the average length of work on a particular farm is 2-3 harvests, and then a fallow period of 4-5 years - they need to work more rationally with manure). They have also planted extensive coffee plantations in recent years. He describes the day of thanksgiving and penitence - the women brought gifts in kind, most of the men brought silver coins. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VI..134 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VI. - Abetifi Title A name given to the resource Obrecht 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: 11.02.1898 Proper date: 11.02.1898 Description An account of the resource In several months the new mission house should be habitable. They are building it mostly with the help of craftsmen who are only apprentices. The future garden is marked by piles of black earth and they plan a coffee plantation. The most obvious sign of progress is in their Asante schools. Altogether the number of pupils has increased from 90 to 311, and by and large though the mothers were suspicious of schools before, now they are getting more in favour of them, and ask the missionaries to see that their children are brought up good. In Kumasi the figure at the end of the year was 63, of whom 38 were Kumasi children. The top class is already reading well, and the pupils write letters to each other. They are lodging on the station - the teachers are Catechist Adayi and Teacher Okraku. There are 24 slave children remaining - at least 14 are 'girls and small children', at least 4 boys of an age to live in the school with the others. They are all now healthy, though in the school somewhat backward through having to learn Twi. With the adult slave-women comparatively little progress has been made - they have had many sad experiences with them, the nearby Hausa quarter exerts a great attraction, and they do not attend services unless constantly encouraged. Admittedly few speak Twi and the missionaries still have to use the girl Yaa as interpreter. On Christmas Day the first Kumasi baptisms were celebrated - 2 young men in their early twenties from a nearby village, an old lady who had been a sort of slave of an Asante under-chief, but had lived for a long time with her son in Akwapim, coming back to Kumasi when she heard that the missionaries were there, and has attached herself to the station with a large-part of her family. (NB the son was a Christian). They would have baptised a wife of one of the young men, but she was backward in the baptismal instruction, and her family situation was not very favourable. The first Asante baptisms had already taken place in Kumawu, where they had been warmly pressed to send a teacher by the chief, and where D. Aboagye now has 32 pupils. Three young men had been baptised there in early December. Ramseyer was very impressed with their answers at his examination, they seemed already to be speaking out of inner experiences. Aboagye warned against baptising the wife of one of them - she was somewhat quarrelsome, had only recently moved onto mission land and should be given a further trial period. She accepted this warning quietly. The mission has land in Kuwawu, Mampong, Agona, and Brodeko. The catechist who was stationed in Affidwase has been transferred to Asokorte, where he was immediately able to increase the number of pupils in the School by 201 Christmas, with a decorated tree, and presents from various Swiss bodies, was a major event. In Le Missionaire 1897 pp28-30 is a letter dd. 12 January 1898 from Mrs Ramseyer concerning the ex-slaves and the celebration of Christmas. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..181 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Ramseyer's Report for the Year 1897 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/. Description An account of the resource This report is printed, apparently in full though with editorial corrections, in Heidenbote, 1897, pp93f Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..177 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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Zellweger's Report for the First Quarter 1897 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: 16.08.1897 Proper date: 16.08.1897 Description An account of the resource Throughout the second part of 1896 and the first part of 1897 there is a running struggle going on between Ramseyer and the Gold Coast Standing Committee over the supply of more staff for Asante. In 1896 this was particularly concerned with the posting of fresh local agents into Asante and the supply of more European missionaries. In the first half of 1897 the struggle was more in terms of the need for female assistance for Mrs. Ramseyer, Ramseyer pressing for Perregaux being posted to Kumasi (this seems to have been negatived in Basel), then for any female assistance and two or three months taken up with an administrative tangle in which the proposal to send un unmarried woman to Kumasi mas made by Basel through the wrong channels and being opposed by Müller on the grounds of too little space in Kumasi took some time to work out. In July, too, Zellweger applied for a transfer to Kumawu - he is a mass of nerves he claims, and evidently he could not find his metier at Kumasi and that was his main problem - as Ramseyer pointed out when he asked for more time to go on preaching journeys, he could very well preach in a radius of 1-1 1/2 hours from Kumasi in his existing pattern of activity. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..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-01.67 - Ghana 1897: D-01.67.VII. - Kumase / Kumasi Title A name given to the resource Kumasi Stations' Conference