Reports street preaching little patronised – 10 is a good congregation, not infrequently there are no hearers at all. It is as if the king’s prohibition on children going to the school started in the town has been extended to adults and the street…
He reckons to have seen a much greater interest in the content of their teaching evidencing: A visit to Asiakwa where the grey-haired elders asked questions about the meaning of points in his preaching - and the younger elders professed to be largely…
Writes of the many palavers between the missionaries and the Okyenhene and the people of Kibi concerning Asante's stay in Begoro. These interrupted his activities in repairing the mission buildings. The report also involves some discussion of…
Some of the schoolboys had hoped that the missionaries, acting as their fathers, would provide them with weapons for the war. Akim had been urged to join the alliance against Asante by messengers from the native king of Accra, and the ‘Fante…
During Strömberg’s absence in Akropong he had to translate a letter aent from the Governor to King Atta for him. The chief of Asiakwa, which like the Gyadams, 65 years ago migrated from Asante but serves king Atta, has asked for a teacher. A…
He has been teaching arithmetic in the Kibi school - they apparently teach gold-dust reckoning as well, since he remarks that one can see how much more difficult it is to do arithmetic in the Kibi school from a table of relative values: 1 pesewa =…
States that an elder of Tafo had wanted to send all his children to school, but could not in the face of the opposition of the fetish priests of Tafo and Kukurantumi. All but two of the boys in the previous Kukurantumi school - and they are the…
Mainly devoted to his description of the destruction of Gyadam. It includes another instance of the title European being applied to Africans in European clothes – this time an Accra man working on the Gyadam station was called a European by some…
One feature of the station is that the paths have a European width about them. And one of the distinguishing features of the youths on the station is that they appear to care about the future - which is not a characteristic of their comrades in the…
Reports that because of the difficulty of getting Akims to do regular work, they brought in Accra workmen for their building operations. With them came a lockmaker who asked for a place to live and work on the station, and because there was no smith…
Reports that reconciliation with the Okyenhene was bound up with Asante’s mission in Begoro. When Asante eventually made contact with the Kwahu man who was to take the message to Kumasi the Okyenhene heard of it and required the man to be arrested…
Contains the information that at the end of May Atta passed through Kukurantumi and took Strömberg with him to Kibi, so that the Kibi station had really started. Asiakwa he now says had asked for a catechist - the people had come from Asante 30 years…
Reports preaching particularly well received in Kukurantami and Sekimase (near Kibi). In Kukurantami they offered to build a house for a missionary who came to live there.
Includes a description of street-preaching one Sunday in the main street at Gyadam - a circle of hearers around Süss. A fetish procession came down the street, but made a detour around side streets to avoid the circle listening to Süss – Kromer…
Again reports a ready audience in street preaching away from Gyadam. There is war excitement in the Kibi villages in the first week in January, and Agyeman has decided to migrate to Swedru, but to have a battle with Kibi first.
The Christians had only at the end of 1865 decided to settle themselves on Mission Land. Teacher Ewyi is a Kukurantumi man, and though he has many good qualities is too timid about getting into conflict with Kukurantumi families to exercise proper…
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