In Anum since the beginning of the year 7 families and 2 single persons have entered the catechumenate. They include the chief fetish priest of Anum, a man who had been a pupil in the Anum school and was then taken away by his brother. He said there…
In Boso an old man has been converted - Asante remarks that this shows it is not just the young men who are responding to the message. In Tosen the fetish priest claimed he had received no blessing from serving his fetishes, and now wished to serve…
The response in Tosen is sufficient to warrant the money being spent on buying land for a catechist’s house, and the building of a church/school where all the people attending services or the school lessons can be accommodated.
Of the 24 pupils in the school (excluding day-pupils) at the beginning of the second half of the year had left by Christmas - one to become Tschopp’s servant, one because he simply did not want to attend school. The school suffered an epidemic of…
Report on the acceptance of Kwahu in the English Gold Coast colony. Ramseyer says tout court that in the race of extortion by people coming out of the colony in the days before Kwahu was under British law the missionaries stood by the Kwahu people -…
The Kwahu treaty with the list of the names of the chiefs signing. The Abetifi missionaries apparently signed as witnesses. About the conclusion of the contract see No. 85.
Report of a preaching tour by D.R. Ashong and the boys of the Begoro Middle School in Kwahu at Easter 1888. There was a serious case between a member of the Bepong congregation and the local fetish priest.
Reporting varying degrees of preparedness for the arrival of a teacher in Krepe country: - Botoku – the chief undecided, apparently worried about the impact of a school on the fetishes - Tutunya - they had set aside a place already cleaned for the…
The greater proportion of the people he judges are pawned - he met one man who has been pawned to three masters for debts of 40, 50, and 100 shillings respectively, and works for each on certain days of the week - he has hardly any time for himself.…
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