367 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: October 1897 Proper date: October 1897 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..163 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 Remark to the Stations' Conference 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: 07.08.1897 Proper date: 07.08.1897 Description An account of the resource Includes the matter of posting another woman to Kumasi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..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-01.67 - 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: 08.09.1897 Proper date: 08.09.1897 Description An account of the resource The bulk of this report is communicated in Le Missionaire, 1897, pp.94-95. Additional material: On the whole the chiefs received him well, the Kumwawuhene especially, so he also get to know one of the catechumen in Kumawu especially well, and a brother of the thief. From Kumawu he visited Bodomasi also. The full course of the journey was Ahenkurow, Agona, Banco, Kuwamu, Nsuta, Mampong. The town where he conversed with the small girl while the men had fled is not named, it was on the plain. However, he received a roughly similar welcome in Banco. The sick woman referred to he met in Okmososo near Agona. In Kwaman he saw a man pounding ash in a mortar with a peaceful, guiltless face (apparently he was not a Christian), but Zellweger took it as a symbol of what a Christian should feel like. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..178 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 on a Preaching Tour in Asante 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: 30.08.1897 Proper date: 30.08.1897 Description An account of the resource The Governor has explained that while the English Government has provision for assisting slaves freed on the sea, there is no provision for assisting slaves freed on land – however he made a (presumably personal) donation of £20. He was present at a Durbar when the Governor visited Kumasi. He heard him speak severely to the Kumasi chiefs for trying to make contact with Prempeh. He also said they should give up using the Great Oath of Asante. The head Kumasi chief protested at this, later came privately to Ramseyer to ask him to intercede for them on this point. Ramseyer in a private talk with the Government informed him that the Great Oath was not private to Prempeh as the Governor had thought, but very old, and also that the universal complaint was that the chiefs had no more authority, and would have none if the oath was prohibited. The Governor therefore later called the chiefs and told them they could use the Great Oath but only in Kumasi. Ramseyer remarks that they were all the while trying to maintain the authority outside Kumasi. He thinks the Kumasi chiefs feared that Prince Twereboanda might be made king over them. He claims that is advising the Governor over the Great Oath as he did he was not mixing in political matters - he simply felt it was his duty to make available to the Governor his knowledge of the situation in Asante. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..165 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: 28.09.1897 Proper date: 28.09.1897 Description An account of the resource Mentions his plans for catechists in Juaben, Kyease, and Ofeso. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..166 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 Ranseyer's Private Letter 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: 04.10.1897 Proper date: 04.10.1897 Description An account of the resource Reports a case in which the (ex-slave) housemother of the ex-slave children had been found involved in the theft of two of the young girls. A French version is printed in full in Le Missionaire 1897 pp90ff. Ramseyer discovered what had happened to the children by appointing two of his Asante schoolboys. The Kumasi magistrate (Dr Hall, doubling as doctor) had tried to use Hausa soldiers to find out what had happened, but Ramseyer had been sceptical of their usefulness, when investigations of their own people were involved. The names of the people involved were Fatima (Housemother) Amma Bomadeng and Samadourounya (the two stolen girls) Makla (Fatima's daughter) Cetera and Soungourour (probably also from the ex-slaves home?) Fatima's accomplices. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..179 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: 05.10.1897 Proper date: 05.10.1897 Description An account of the resource Pleads to be spared from being appointed General Praeses on the Gold Coast when Müller retires mostly on the grounds that they do not want to be taken away from Kumasi - it has been a ‘sweet' experience for them to feel the trust that the Asante people are showing for them. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..169 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: 15.10.1897 Proper date: 15.10.1897 Description An account of the resource Outlines the political situation in reply to a letter from Basel concerned about the security of resources invested in Kumasi missionary buildings. He does not think Samory is a danger because he does not believe Samory wants to attack the English, and they in their turn are garrisoning into the interior, and appear to intend to protect and forward trade (he cites the telegraph to Kintampo, and the new stationing of garrisons at Yegyi and Daboya). As for the population of Kumasi, they will return when there is less fear of Samory (he reports one huge panic even in the Christian and Kwahu quarters stirred up apparently by the calling out of the Hausas on a mobilisation exercise). Also at the moment there are insistent calls for labour for building and load-carrying by the chiefs in Kumasi, and it is easier to escape these if one is outside the town. Nevertheless, when they hold street preaching outside the house of the Kumasi head-chief Buabasa they usually have a good number of Kumasi as hearers, which indicates that there are a fair number of such people living among the ruins of Bantama and Kumasi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VII..171 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: 20.03.1897 Proper date: 20.03.1897 Description An account of the resource Reports Clerk's expedition to Krakye and the need to take up the opening quickly - Pastor Hall once reported that the young people had long been waiting for a teacher, and that many were sighing under the oppression of the fetish. So theyshould go to work to take this yoke off their necks, and bring in the day of freedom for the people sighing under Dente as well. He also reports the reactions of Clerk and Martin to Ramseyer's report that the English officials believed that the slave trade had moved from Kintampo to Krakye. Clerk had written that it was a fact that slave-selling goes on in Kete, not so much in the market as in the houses. Over the whole area buying and selling goes on unchecked. The people thought that German regulations over slavery were simply directed to seeing that the he were not badly handled. Martin pointed out that he German emancipation involved the Government paying the owner a certain sum, and the slave then working this off through employment with the Government. This is not much liked by women and the old, and though they can flee onto English soil, this is not easy. Müller writes in conclusion that it was high time the German regime followed the English example, and got itself out of its alliance with the smuggling and so forth which this amount of slavery involved. Under the counter the merchants are in cahoots with the colonial officials, and the former do not want slavery abolished. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..184 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Date early: 14.07.1897 Proper date: 14.07.1897 Description An account of the resource Mohr's recommendation of Tapa as a European Station was not widely backed - even before he landed at Accra Pfisterer met the veteran Rottmann en route for Europe who expressed himself strongly against Tapa and wanted to know why they were not setting up straight away in Tsantso. The main point against Tapa seems to have been that the two settlements there were small, and that in any case the people spent a lot of their time scattered on farms. The chances of getting food easily to feed missionaries and boarding pupils were slim. Also Pfisterer was most unimpressed with the Tapa peoples’ reaction to his preaching. He spoke about life, death, and judgement - they listened as if they had never heard before, and at the end promised all sorts of things. But Clerk was there, and he knew they had been preach to many times, and had made many promises. Another point against them was that they had bad relations with the rest of Buem, including the chief in Borada, so that it would be difficult to get scholars. Akpafo is preferable (Worawora ruled out because of the water supply) especially on account of being larger and a settlement where people worked the whole time. But Pfisterer would like to look at Tschantscho before making up his mind, or before the Mission commits itself. In a subscript Clerk writes that Akpafo is no better and no worse than Tapa from the point of view of communications with the rest of Buem - there is a road from Tapa to Aka. Müller argues that Pfisterer has not studied the situation long enough. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..186 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Pfisterer's Report on the Problem should an Additional Mission be built in Buem 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 Date late: 30.08.1897 Proper date: 21.07.1897-30.08.1897 Description An account of the resource They go over the same ground mainly as Müller (see No. 186). The only social consideration brought into focus appears to be the widespread request for teachers. Martin gives an account of the routes which might be exploited were the station built in Akpafo. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..187-189 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Subscripts from Mohr, Lochmann and Martin to Pfisterer's Suggestion 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: 15.07.1897 Proper date: 15.07.1897 Description An account of the resource Has had to train local people as shingle-splitters; has been able to bring two carpenters and two sawyers from Worawora and Kpalime. Wages - for a carpenter's apprentice 6d-9d a day, for a carpenter 1/8d. The sawyers have gone off home again, however, and the local people have little wish to learn such a demanding skill; even if he lets it be known 'by the drums' how many people he wants to work for him next day, people don't come - he has to go round and talk to them personally, and even then they will often only work for an hour or two. Visitors from Anyanga and Pesi come to look at this new type of house. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..190 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Mischlich 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: 10.11.1897 Proper date: 10.11.1897 Description An account of the resource Including a short biography of Catechist Awere by Müller. He was born of Christian parents in Akropong in 1860, and his work had been entirely in the Akropong Middle School and the Anum community. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..198 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Catechist Awere's Ordination 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: 28.11.1897 Proper date: 28.11.1897 Description An account of the resource Announces the almost complete destruction of his property in a fire at Bismarckburg. Inter al his cloth and grey baft had been destroyed, and so was his store of which he was using since the people will not accept English or German money. The fire was probably caused by sparks from the grass burning around the station. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..199 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Mischlich to the Gold Coast Conference 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: 30.11.1897 Date late: 18.12.1897 Proper date: 30.11.1897-18.12.1897 Description An account of the resource Correspondence about difficulties into which Mischlich had fallen in his relations with the merchant community in Adele. Müller's letter contains two points: Firstly they had heard rumours about Mischlich's activities and character from Krobo, and secondly that he (Müller) accepts that Mischlisch had sinned and thus damaged himself but also the whole mission. Exactly what the sin is is not so clear from Mischlisch's letter. This, too, is apologetic in tone, but puts whatever happened in the context of the severe damage he felt the liquor trade was inflicting in Adele - there was so much drunknness he felt that there was no hope of mission advance unless it was somehow checked. It was at this stage that he bought a part-filled tin of spirits for 12/- and publicly poured it out on the ground - the merchants, behind his back, took this very amiss and 'I see myself now that I would have done better not to do this.' Then he got involved with the attempts of the regime to regulate trade. He translated the new rubber law when Lt. Plehn came to proclaim it, and the latter told the merchants that they must obey it even when he was gone - Mischlisch would keep an eye on them and point out to him the transgressors when he returned. He gave them one month to fetch permits to trade in rubber from the coast, and when after three months people were still trading with no permits, Mischlich ordered the workers on the mission station to bring a humber of loads of cloth to him. He intended to report the matter to Krakye, but did not do so, and gave the merchants their cloth back, when they returned. Several then said that bales of cloth were missing. Mischlich writes that no bale was opened on the station, and if any were missing then it was because the merchants’ subordinates or their relatives had taken them, or not given a proper account of their sales which certainly went on in their absence. Mischlich writes that he thought he was doing the regime a service - it had after all allowed them to use Bismarckburg - but now sees he was very foolish. Then Graf von Zech had a law regulated that no gum goods were to be sold to the locals on credit - if they were sold on credit then the regime would do nothing to help if the debtors defaulted. The merchants claimed that this was Mischlich’s idea, and since then have done everything to damage his reputation by rumours about him taking things from them, or striking them, or damaging them in some other way. The merchants’ current behaviour in Katsenke is to travel a day's journey away if a white man comes to the town (They take no notice of him. any longer). This is because they oppress the Adeles in all sorts of ways - settling cases for them, for example, and charging up to £5 or this. He sees now he should have left the affairs of the regime alone. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..200-201 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Correspondence from Mischlich and Martin 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: 18.03.1898 Proper date: 18.03.1898 Description An account of the resource Lists the building operations on mission land, (other than members' houses) carried on the year: Anum - a second cistern, and a 30 lengthening of the chapel Toseng - a 2-room shingle roof teacher's house and a chapel Bose - a new storehouse Kpalime - the swish walls of a new teacher's house Botoku - a 2-room storehouse for the teacher, and an open hall (the elders gave the grass for this building) Bume – a storehouse (built with the help of Christians from Anfoe and the Bume Christians heathen relative) Ntwumuru - chapel enlarged by 50% Alavanyo - a teacher's house and a chapel Worawora - 30% renewal of the chapel Guamang - the teacher's house is completed and a new chapel begun. Jasikan - the walls of a new chapel. Borada - the walls of the catechist’s house are ready and the timbers needed ready sawn. Together, he writes these show a readiness for community-work on the part of the Christians and the respect with which the Christian community is regarded by the heathen, because from their side too help has come over teachers' accomodation. It is felt to be an honour to have a teacher in one's town, or among one's townpeople. Tension between Christians and heathen has occurred only in Akwamu and Bume. Among the missionaries Pfisterer was sent with the instructions that he should travel in Buem looking for a suitable site for the founding of a European mission station (Lochmann, missionary in Akwamu, got married). Among the local agents Monitor Jonas Awuku 'fell’ and was replaced by Monitor George Ofusu. Catechist Sam. Adow who had been working adequately in Anum had to be dismissed on account of it being discovered that he had been guilty of sexual misdemeanours during his middle school and seminar days. He was replaced by David Sam. Catechist Timoteo Osee was posted to Anum because of the extension of the school into the upper classes. Catechst Chr. Adu was posted to Bume on graduation from the Seminary, Benj. Afari, pupils teacher, was sent to Worawora to replace the dismissed monitor Dako Wilson. A pupil teacher abandoned his work in Ntwumuru (Sam. Ahuna) and had to be replaced by monitor Jerem. Saforo previously intended for Boso. Pfisterer had as his assistant Theophil Asare, re-taken into mission employment. Pupil teacher Charles Nyako was sent to Adele. Chr. Adu and Tim. Osee are from the Anum district - the first to be appointed agents from this district. They are both from Boso. In the bi-yearly courses for the further education of the catechists and teachers they were pleased at the curiosity shown in informal chats about such things as astronomy and electricity. The missionaries between them travelled for 378 days in the year and the catechists and teachers (with Pastor Hall) for at least 332 days - Martin stresses the overall need for more staff in a passage which purports to give a complete account of the villages between the Abe, Konsu, and Volta. In this he only lists 2 on the west bank - Nkami and Akramang. In a passage naming the senior lay Christians who assist him in his preaching in the mid-Volta district he writes that the Kpando presbyter George Amanee is a great help, inter al in translating into Ewe, and Martin takes him to Atawronu, Avhatei, Dseme, Nkami and Akramang. Other senior Christians used in this sort of way are Joseph Anku in the Bume villages, and Emmanu in the Alavanyo villages. Anum - a bad year with a reduction of 7 in the community and 22 people excluded. These included a teacher, a catechist and the Presbyter who was found to have a concubine in the town, and gave up wife and new swish-walled and shingled house to go and live with her. They also went through the list of community members looking at those who were rarely or never to be seen at services. The surviving Presbyter is Albert Oko. The old Presbyter was much respected for his wealth among Christians and heathen alike. Toseng - Martin is very impressed with the work of the teacher, and that of the Presbyter Mose Odankwa. The community increased by 29, including a fetish priest and family. Good relations with the missionaries – visiting them in Anum, and providing carriers for journeys frequently. Most of the young men can read, and the knowledge of the bible is impressive. Boso - he repeats earlier criticisms of the community, including the point that the spirit of family unity is weak, and that they are in far too easy communication with the heathen. (The latter being not characteristic of Toseng, where the heathen come onto the mission station if they want to see someone). There is a presbyter called Petro who does a good job. Kpalime - a community of elderly farmers who live together in peace and friendship. Tsatei - a stable situation in which Martin thinks the community is growing in understanding of their new religion. Martin writes about the fact that the Wesleyans have started work in Anum. This developed from their work in Peki – one or two excluded Christians – including ex-Presbyter Isaak Amamfo – from Anum and a man who as a catechumen, but whose baptism had been put off by the missionaries because he had taken part in a heathen festival, asked for a Methodist teacher, and got one. When they were visited by the Methodist minister from Kpong, Martin asked him a series of question to which he got no satisfactory answer: Whether they would like the Basel Mission to intervene in an area where the Wesleyans had been working for 30 years? Why they had not gone to Nkwakubeo or Dodi or Abamensam or Miawoani? Whether people who were troubled about the salvation of their soul, or wanted to become holy, had not, a church already in Anum - and whether there were not places for the children still in the Basel Mission school. Was it easier to go to heaven if you were a Methodist? Did he think the Basel Missionaries were teachers of mistaken doctrines? The Methodist minister apologised along the lines that the teacher had instructions not to accept anyone who had already been baptised into the Basel Mission Church without consulting them - at which Martin accused him simply of telling lies. Attached to the report is a statistical abstract of the building state of each community, in which it is stated that Bumi was founded in 1897. This is the year in which a teacher was first posted there. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..212 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Martin'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: 17.01.1898 Proper date: 17.01.1898 Description An account of the resource A report on the Basel Mission schools in the English Volta district. Anum - 75 children, 34 of them boarding boys, and overall increase of 13. He points out that only 41 pupils are actually from Anum. The coffee plantation brought little return in the year due to the ravages of the coffee-tree worm. The scholars had also raided the school maize plantation. Tosena - 24 pupils, including 15 heathen children. Boso - 41 pupils, exceptionally including 23 Christian girls and only 12 boys from Christian families. Not so well run as the school in Toseng. Kpalime - 29 pupils at the beginning of the year, 20 by the end. Tsatei - 19 pupils, 2 of them from heathen families. In general Lochmann makes the point that the numbers in some places (e.g. Anum) are not as large as they should be, and this indicates that the Christian parents do not yet appreciate the value of schooling. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..215 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Lochmann 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: 22.02.1898 Proper date: 22.02.1898 Description An account of the resource He has the impression that the presence of the church is causing changes, including the point that now it does not cause a crisis when someone wants to become a Christian. Even fetish priests and their families are content to see their children becoming Christians. Worawora - increased from 28 to 58, with 33 catechumens and 22 pupils in the school. The first presbyter has been chosen - Josef Kwame. The great problem is maintaining Christian discipline in sexual matters, and he was very happy to celebrate Christian marriages for two of the first Christians, baptised 6 years previously, Charles and Thomas. Several people have been brought to confess secret sins. Gyasekan - the community increased from 30 to 33, with 10 catechumen, and 17 pupils in the school. A weak church - often on his visits Clerk meets no members there at all. The main problem is division between Christians from the two Gyasekans. Also the senior and most influential Christian, Goerge Zate, is not giving good leadership - he is almost certainly about to break up his marriage with a Christian woman. The catechist too is weak in community affairs, better at preaching journeys and the school. Guaman - the community increased from 25 to 47, there are 10 catechumens and 13 pupils in the school. The community scattered among the villages of Guaman, Atonko, Aka, Ksuta, Kagyebi. Richard Ata of Guaman, the first Christian in the area, has been chosen as presbyter. In Guaman the increase in the Christian village has meant a significant decrease in the small heathen village, and the heathens no longer come to street preaching. Borada - an increase from 1 to 7, with 27 catechumens, and 7 pupils in the school. The Catechist there lost much respect with the heathen when, at the birth of his first child, he used heathen medicine, and to allowed himself to be persuaded to trust to ‘unclean' specifics. The catechumens there are not moving onto mission land. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..216 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk's Report for 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: 17.02.1898 Proper date: 17.02.1898 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..217 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Hall's Report for 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: 27.02.1897 Proper date: 27.02.1897 Description An account of the resource Reporting a journey to Krakye - the wag Krakye chief's reply to the question whether or not they wanted a school was that they did not want a school - they would send another boy to school if that was wanted, but that was all. A German official, Rosenhagen, then intervened for several hours, at the end of which the Krakye decision was modified to being an acceptance of the school anywhere the missionaries liked, but not in Krakye town. Clerk recommends that Kete be not chosen, in view of the shifting population, largely made up of strangers. Tareeso is not suitable, due to the lack of water there in the dry season. He recommends Abudwuro. There is a subscript from Müller accepting the recommendation in outline and suggesting that Catchist Awere from Anum, in his 5th year of service, be posted into the area and ordained. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context D-01.67.VIII..218 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.VIII. - Anum Title A name given to the resource Clerk to the Gold Coast Präses (Chairman)