Report of a journey to Akwamu. Little information on the journey through Krobo. The first Akwamu town reached was Kotropee, apparently on the bank of the Volta, A fetish priest here .forbade the catechist trainees from entering any of the houses…
On the case of Abraham Atitsogbe both the Kibi missionaries and the catechists had given him a good character as having had 'nothing to do' with the slave, so Mader is content that the plan should go forward as Atitsogbe originally designed. There is…
Includes a short section on Kibi. It refers to Abraham Atitsogbe, who bought the slave of an Asante who was killed in the recent fighting between Asante and Akim for 3 dollars. He then made her his wife, with the concurrence of the missionaries,…
Reporting on the Kibi school, Mader writes that their performance in Biblical History was good to very good. Most children could tell whole stories in a vivid way. In arithmetic Mader considered that Asante had got the Second Class (younger pupils)…
Accompanied by 21 catechist pupils, the catechist Isak Ostertag, 4 carriers, and one boy from his house. He reports a continued demand for a teacher at Kukurantumi, and in Tafo a request for a teacher but he must be African. Odumase is said to belong…
A rather more detailed description than previously of the Akropong villages on the road into Akim. Compared with the previous report (23 Mar 1852) there is lest detail about the Akim part of the journey. Of the list of settlements before Kukurantumi…
Extract from his diary. Sharp gospeller, attacking polygamy and fetishism (pp 2-3). Answers of baptismal candidates: following the pietistic scheme (p 3). Seminary: Character of students improving (pp 3-4). The missionary must be "a personified word…
(a) his account of the war-scare adds nothing to what has already been said, except that Akwapim made its war-customs, and asked the British government for weapons, powder and lead. Mader points out that it was all a rumour- and compares it with a…
Includes a description of his language work, and some comments on his results. Also a brief account of the geographical positions of the Akwapim villags and their relations with the Mission.
The report is mainly taken up with a description of his early experiences of the missionary dialectic, and accounts of slavery as a social institution, and the organisation and strength of the fetish shrines. The latter seems based on Akropong…
Spells Strömberg’s and Zimmermann's ‘Asadsohale 'Asutyaree'. Zimmerman's party arrived at Awlotoi at 1 a.m. at the beginning of their journey into Anum country. 'The Ayigbe country and its capital Pekyi' is the home of the cotton brought out of the…
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