They have 5 servant-girls, who attend school in the mornings and learn needlework with Mrs Eisenschmid in the afternoons. The school in Kibi stands at 9 boarding boys, 6 boys who are servants of the missionaries, and 9 girls who are servants of the…
Concerned mainly with a visit to Kukurantumi. Eisenschmid reports that people in Kukurantumi are disturbed by the land case, and that there were no inhabitants to be seen in the two villages between Kibi and Kukurantumi (Asafo and Akoko) on account…
The report is almost exclusively concerned with the Akim gold industry. Washing from the rivers is carried on by women and children who are happy if they earn 3d-4d per day. A particular type of earth is known as ore-bearing, and if a gold-digging…
In Kibi school numbers are relatively stable at 15, boys whom the King and elders ‘gave’ to the school. They attend fairly regularly and many of them would like to live on the station. Some seem to be really gaining something from baptismal…
Includes an introductory comment about the significance of the shortage of European workers which is distinctly other than classical calvinism. He writes that if there were a great hunger and thirst for righteousness in Akim, blessings would no doubt…
The report is printed as far as it refers to Kibi as an annex to the 1866 Annual Report (pp 54ff). The additional unpublished material concerns Kukurantumi.
Kromer has had a wife on the station since early in the year - she was seriously ill at first, but otherwise they have been in good health with fevers, but not seriously. Concerning Catechist Asante Eisenschmid writes that ‘he has experienced the…
According to Eisenschmid the earlier proceedings had left Ampaw of Kukurantumi in undisputed possession of the land, though with a heavy fine to pay on account of his representatives misuse of the Okyenhene’s oath. However, following the death of…
The report is printed in Heidenbote 1867 pp116ff. It is concerned with the almost simultaneous death and funeral of Eisenschmid's wife and King Ata. The report is a document arising from the distinctive situation of Basel missionaries in Ghana - she…
Concerns one Kwame Ayeribe from Apapam. After a year in the boarding school during which he had a good name, he was taken away by force and given to Asumaneng of Apapam as pawn to cover a loan of 27 dollars. He has since appealed both to Haas and…
Teacher Adu at Begoro is from Kukurantumi, a small but busy man, of the best students of his year. He has just married a very simply Christian girl from his home town, and seems happy and at peace. (He seems too on good terms with Eisenschmid). The…
The process ended on May 10th. The jury was almost completely made up of local people, Ata having 'forbidden' Europeans from serving. All the other points except complicity in the ritual murder were found against the prosecution by the jury - there…
He stresses that he personally has knowledge only of the Akropong area. The emancipation has had effects in only isolated cases in Akwapim - people talk about 50 cases, and even if you double this number this is very few among so many slaves. In the…
Travelling from Akropong to Kibi they spent the first night in Panto, the second in Kukurantumi. In the latter a man had died and a priest declared that it was his fetish which was responsible - although the priest had been attending the man in his…
Raises the question of policies in relation to the organisation of the mission in Akim- whether there should be two stations, and if so whether Asiakwa or Kukurantumi should be the second. There is a long clear setting out of the factors by Schrenk…
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