Comments on the celebrations when British rule was consolidated – a gathering of the important chiefs in Christiansborg. The King from Kibi was the most noble of them, and the richest the King of Akim (this and other material from Zimmermann on the…
Includes comments on the large number (relatively) of baptismal candidates current in Osu. On is a slave whom the Mission bought free six months ago and who has stayed with them ever since°. He has become a missionary among, the people from his area.…
Much of this report is taken up with the Durbar to celebrate the extension of English control on the coast – and is word for word identical with the Zimmerman quarter report No. 140.
The first page of this report is a list of the members of the Christiansborg Basel Mission Church, divided into male and female, negro and mulatto, with with brief descriptions of people’s occupations. pp 24-25 are concerned with a short paragraph on…
In the section on preaching journeys a visit to Legon is mentioned (spelt this time Lego). The people had agreed to give up their fetish practices, to keep Sunday holy, listen to the Bible being read regularly. However, Stanger doubted the…
First part is a Ga traditional account of the McCarthy war - Zimmermann says in the same sentence that he had it from the mouth of an elder (not specified) and implies that it is a popular history. It is certainly fairly crude. The cause is given as…
Several people from Kumasi and Akim have visited him apparently to hear what he has to say about religion. Another visit to Lego - obviously in the Legon area, since it is described as the first farming village of any significance after leaving Osu.…
Includes an account of a journey to Akropong with his pupils, via Kwantanang (which he says he has visited many times before, sometimes with his wife) and Amrahia, where a Peki Caravan was resting. On the way back to Osu passed through Legon, and was…
Summary biographies of 11 baptismal candidates. In the discussion of work outside Christiansborg, the greatest attention is paid to Labadi and Teshi, Legon is not named, though Nkwatangang is, as being like the villages around Abokobi a place where…
Reports having made a visit to a condemned Asante who would not listen to him, but called on Nyankopong as he went up to the gallows (at the beginning of June).
Begins with an account of some of the animals he has encountered, with some information on their religious significance. Reports a crocodile-fetish at Bre (Berekuse) on the stream called Mama near the Abokobi plantation. It is given an annual…
In October the Abokobi people were busy corn harvesting....Abraham the foremen is proud of having worked through Homowo, which this year was good weather for farming (there is a lot of material in this report on the growth of the church in the…
Gives a detailed account of the villages visited in an extend preaching tour of the Accra plains in order to demonstrate to the Committee the populousness of the area....he offers the estimate that in the quadrilateral R. Sakumo – Akwapim hills -…
Account of a 14 day stay at Abokobi, showing it to be used as the focus of mission activity in the farming villages around, at least as far as the already baptised were concerned. Communion celebrated for the Christians collected from the district on…
Christian Okobi is named as catechist designate for Abokobi. (This is on a full list of the buildings and personnel of the station. Stanger’s report seems unusually formal and full, and there is a list of the wages paid to the indigenous teachers and…
Reports the first visit by a Basel missionary to the Accra farming villages NW of Osu. The first one of any note is 8 hours away and that is probably the most important, Abodo. A visit by a missionary to these villages is apparently rare since the…
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