In: Nature's Self-Printing. A Series of Useful and Ornamental Plants of the South India Flora. Taken from Fresh Specimens in Facsimile Colors. Mangalore. Botanautographed and Published by J. Hunziker. Basel Mission Press.
by James M. Gathwork Nyak, University of Khartoum 1988; Thesis represented in fulfillment of Masters of Arts Degree Requirement in African and Asian Studies in the Institute of African and Asian Studies
Dilger criticises the teaching methods practiced by the local teachers, and his own statement of priorities. The local teachers, as far as he is able to judge, know very little about handling a subject in an exciting and interesting way nor do they…
Johannes Werdu from Abetifi, aged 20, ranked 3rd. Stephano Abankwa, from Abetifi, aged 19, ranked 2nd Samuel Brekunu from Abetifi, aged 18, ranked 4th. Daniel Bre from Bukuruwa, aged 20, ranked 1st. Some, but not all, had been house-boys for the…
The first stop on the journey was Akwasiho at the foot of the scarp near Obo - where the chief offered to board Dilger and Kwabi in his owe house, but Dilger refused on the grounds that it was a hospital for lepers. Shortly before they entered Praso…
2 pupils died during the year - one Ramseyer's houseboy, another an ordinary schoolboy, as yet unbaptised, though Dilger writes in his modesty and patience more of a Christian than some baptised boys. In writing about Ramseyer’s houseboy’s death,…
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