Their attempts to get more boys for the school from the Okyenhene and his elders are having no effect at all. A boy who came to them by his own free will from Apapam has been taken away after the missionaries refused to pay 27 dollars for him.…
They have be having a somewhat better response to invitations to send boys to the school - 2 have been sent from Apapame and after Lodholz’ tour of western Akim, 2 more were sent (home towns not specified) and a third came later from Kwaman. However,…
The report is mostly printed as an annex to the 1872 Annual Report pp130ff. Additional material: The recruitment of scholars for the Kibi School - only one, handed over by the uncle of the ex-Akropong Middle School pupil David Kese. He also proposes…
Includes the remark that the Okyenhene is favourable to boys' staying in the school and this, and the missionaries' own steadfastness, helps them to succeed in retaining some of the boys whom the families try to take away from the school. The trouble…
An account of the school year. With the installation of Catechist William Adow as 'housefather' tensions developed between him and the pupils - there had been one small strike by all the pupils, and later they heard from the Okyenhene that there was…
The report is a more detailed account of the day-to-day events of March in Gyadam: much of it is printed as an appendix to the annual report for 1860 (p.134). Additional material in the manuscript includes the following: About 15 Gyadam women had…
Provides some background to the quarrel which led to Süss’s leaving Gyadam again. Haas had only returned to Gyadam after recovering from persistent bouts of fever on 7th May. He also seems maintain a rather more intensive level of piety than Süss in…
Contrasts the Daha-style roofing of Akim with the Sarre roofing of Akwapim and the coastal-plains. Normally services are held on the hill twice daily, including Sundays. Every Sunday at least a service is held in the town, often with street…
The report lists Patriensa, Odumase and Agogo as being places where the mission owns land. The total Christian community in the Abetifi area increased by 192 in the course of the year. Mission personnel: Ramseyer to Kumasi, Perregaux to Switzerland,…
A report of a journey to Asante Akim during the Long Vacation 1893. In 1891/1892 Asante Akim was severely threatened by Yaw Sepong - at one time Bompata was full of armed Asantes. Catechist Boateng played a major role in maintaining the peace, and…
The letter includes a report of yet another attempt to revive Atie Yaw. A new Atie Yaw appeared, after the word had gone around that the Atie Yaw found the previous year was not the real Atie Yaw - after all, after the expulsion of Bowi the real Atie…
The withdrawals of the English force has created great commotion partly because the Asantehene is now making profit from the retreat (a case of liquor he sent the Kwahu king with an embassy was in fact returned), and also because of the depredations…
Offers the information that while in the outstations in Kwahu only on the average 9 of the 14 scholars on the list will go to school in any 6 month period, in Bompata in the last 6 months, 25 of the 26 scholars on the list have done so. The…
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