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…
Summarising his conclusions from the Ramseyer-Asante expedition to Asante. He tends to conclude that Ramseyer was a difficulty in himself. According to the information travelling around the Koranteng-Hall network he was being called Obusuyefo (evil…
Reporting a tour of Akim, Asante-Akim, and Kwahu There are five Juaben villages in the stretch Koforidua-Kukurantumi. There are 28 inhabited places in Kwahu - 8 of them are among the largest towns on the Gold Coast. Kwahu burial customs (he mentions…
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 last section of the report is an account of his Kwahu journey in 1882. Lists the four Juaben villages as Koforidua, Asokore, Afidwase, Oweko. In Koforidua they were able to borrow a bell from a young man to call the people together for…
Concerning the requests of members of the 5th class of the Kibi Anstalt to be received into the Akropong Middle School or Teachers' Seminary. Immanuel Agyei, son of Imm. Boakye, the most gifted of the group, though not consistent and requires…
Thanks the Committee for the suggestion that he should make a second visit to Kumasi. Most of the letter is taken up with a comment on the Committee's warning that it appeared that Ramseyer was not altogether welcome in Kumasi on account of his role…
Personnel - Chr. Burckhardt died in April 1882 after being in Begoro since October 1881 - yellow fever. Mrs. Mohr died in August 1882. Catechist Sakyi is often rather depressed. Anoff in Fankyeneko has to battle constantly against apathy. He doesn't…
In describing the background to his journey, he offers two reasons for the outbreak of the war in 1860 - (1) that the Gyadam people were working a new goldfield and would not give Atta of Kibi his customary 1/3 takings. (2) Agyeman refused to let…
Missionaries severely affected by illness in the course of the year - D. Huppenbauer being forced to return to Europe, and Munz and Krauss being several times forced away to convalesce in Begoro or Akropong. At Kibi the number in the community at the…
The report contains information on the history of Imm. Boakye. It seems almost totally reproduced in the Kollektenblatt No 139, 1883. Additional material in the manuscript: The Juaben king whose nephew Boakye was (Boakye's father was his brother) was…
The report is two-thirds concerned with a journey to West Akim. He talks about Kotoku and mentions Katawere as being a major source of opposition to Christianity. In Asuboa the people flocked to write down their names, saying their fetish had been…
He had spent a month and a half in Abomosu in 1877 preparing people for baptism. On return he had to exclude 5 people for adultery. He found only three houses on mission land, and his own house still has no windows or doors. His first preaching in…
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