From the Basel Mission's point of view Anum is the best cotton market in the upper Volta region. Though Boso market gets a lot of cotton, the amounts are in fact less than what comes to Anum, and Boso is further from the river. Uncleansed cotton can…
Travelling from Okoli to Awletoi passed a series of Ewe villages with a total population or about 2,000: Jyampon (Tyanpon?), Bofeme, Anyanse, Awletoi. Enmity continues between the Pekyi-Anum-Ho alliance, headed by the Pekyi chief, and Akwamu,…
Remarks that it makes him sad to see land which god did not create to be empty unpeopled and uncultivated, and that the Akems export only Kopal varnish to the coast. Having met the chief and elders of Kibi he writes that several are well-disposed to…
He writes that he has been visited by Feni, the chief of Begoro - a man rather less well disposed to them than the chiefs of Asiakwa and Kukurantumi. Written as a subscript to this report is a translation of 8 Fante lyrics (into German), some of the…
It seems that Burckhardt's misdeameanours in Kukurantumi were small scale embezzlements of mission funds or goods, plus deviousness when these points were being investigated.
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…
States that an elder of Tafo had wanted to send all his children to school, but could not in the face of the opposition of the fetish priests of Tafo and Kukurantumi. All but two of the boys in the previous Kukurantumi school - and they are the…
It is a first report of the fight between Christians and fetish-servers also mentioned in his report for 1865 (see No. 33). The two descriptions of the event tally: and in this report the detail is added that he actually heard the anti-Christian…
On the case of Abraham Atitsogbe both the Kibi missionaries and the catechists had given him a good character as having had 'nothing to do' with the slave, so Mader is content that the plan should go forward as Atitsogbe originally designed. There is…
Describes the route he followed (not all the party went this way) – Dauromadam - Ogoli (1 hour), then North East via Tyampong and Ananse to the R. Labo, to Awlotoi (6-7 hours from Dauromadam). At Awlotoi Zimmrmann’s party met Strömberg and Mader who…
Spells Strömberg’s and Zimmermann's ‘Asadsohale 'Asutyaree'. Zimmerman's party arrived at Awlotoi at 1 a.m. at the beginning of their journey into Anum country. 'The Ayigbe country and its capital Pekyi' is the home of the cotton brought out of the…
Present: Rottmann, Mader, J. Zimmerman (as substitute for Locher), Laissle, Strömberg (also as secretary); Meyer added in parentheses. Locher absent because of the severe illness of one of his children. Although the areas around the Pekyi district…
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