Reports being asked to be present and give advice at a meeting of the Worawora chief and elders. He saw them choose two (out of four candidates) as heads of the young men. They then discussed a series of reforms in custom in line with what the…
Part of this report is printed in Heidenbote 1892 pp20-21. Points not published: He repeats earlier material about the divisions among the Buems: 1. Worawora, Tapa, Apeso, and Asabo speak a corrupt Twi. Clerk thinks they have learned it from Kwahu…
They met a Christian family in Worawora who were of great help in settling the Clerks, but 6d a day was too little for the Worawora people to work on the building of a new house, and Clerk had to have workers sent up from Anum. There has been a…
The paths towards Buem had been cleaned following a visit by the English officer, Mr Williams. On that account in the Sohae villages no men were to be met. By juxtaposition Clerk implies that the problem with getting the teacher's house in Vakpo…
He stayed in Kete, not Krakye. He preached a formal sermons to the chiefs and people transmitting to them the whole salvation history from the creation to redemption in Jesus, and how the kingdom of God had come to Europe and from Europe to Accra and…
Yiripe lies two day's journey South of Wovawora - Yiripe people often come to Worawora and Clerk had formed an ambition to see their land, though in fact it comes under the Bremen area. They are politically under Buem, though they are a tribe in…
There is little desire for education in Buem and the scholars can only be kept in the school by love and coaxing. God is working by degrees in the hearts of the community - one confessed (in the preparation period for Holy Communion) that he had once…
Discussing Gyadu, Clerk writes that he was meek and lovable, though never properly loved and respected by the Anum community. Clerk offers as explanation for this the fact that he never quite got over his old weakness for drink, and when he had drunk…
The report contains the history of the interrelations between Akpanya, the Borada king, the Christians, and the Kodonko fetish of Atonko. It is summarised anonymously in Heidenbote 1897 pp.28-29. The three brothers, from whom a successor to the dead…
Reports cases both of a catechumen who confessed sins voluntarily because 'the Word of God gave him no peace' (a man called Kyekye), and another who lied about his having committed no major sins. Reports political difficulties in Worawora town. The…
The houses on the mission station in Jasikan were being built by the chief. There have been locust swarms in Buem. This year, too there are elephants in Buem - Clerk has recently seen a dance in honour of a hunter who had killed one.
Reports a case of a husband who has having, difficulties becoming a Christian - he was a polygamist, and one of his wives had also had her name written down, perhaps in the hope of being the chosen wife. She was somewhat weak in body, however, often…
He has the impression that the presence of the church is causing changes, including the point that now it does not cause a crisis when someone wants to become a Christian. Even fetish priests and their families are content to see their children…
The teacher's wife in Gyasekan is often ill, and does not take Clerk's advice to leave off local medecines and change her way of life. In Gyasekan the people of the town completed the buildings for the teacher on mission land. In Worawora the…
Building - the walls of his house are finished, and those of the teacher's house soon will be - and in the course of the year they have built a chapel. They have had considerable help from the scholars and catechumens. In Worawora the entity is less…
The report is concerned with the Yam Festival in Anum. 10 varieties of yams are known, that favoured most by the Anum people is called Akoako, and the people plant 500-2,500 according to their means. He describes the cultivation and that there is an…
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