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…
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