Christaller and Eisenschmid apply to the Basel Committee for resources to support 25 boarding pupils in the school. One of the factors adduced to justify the additional expenditure is the fact that a fetish priest has recently appealed to the…
The mission staff includes now Brother Lodholz, and teacher Jonas Ako. The community in Kibi has incrased from 23 to 35, but the number of communicants only from 13 to 15. There are no catechumens. In the school are 19 boarders, 4 day boys and 4…
Discussion about the buying free of a servant girl of Chr. Asante in Kibi. He had acquired her because he could get no-one to serve him, and Missionary Mader had suggested that buying someone with the slave emancipation fund would be the best plan.…
Mentions the possible payment of the debt of 36 dollars by which the Kukurantumi Christian Paul Teaseye is pawned and the question sent to the Basel Committee for their answer since the money would have to be provided by them.
Continues with his review of the legal situation in Akim, and legal proceedings. His hope of a British Resident cannot be realised - the British have neither the interest nor the capacity time nor means to act in such a way. This, however, creates a…
Includes a sketchy description of his wife surrounded by the girls they have in the house sewing while she tells them stories perhaps from Europe, or they sing together. One important happening in the quarter was Ata’s serious illness - at one time…
Reporting on the Kibi school, Mader writes that their performance in Biblical History was good to very good. Most children could tell whole stories in a vivid way. In arithmetic Mader considered that Asante had got the Second Class (younger pupils)…
They have 5 servant-girls, who attend school in the mornings and learn needlework with Mrs Eisenschmid in the afternoons. The school in Kibi stands at 9 boarding boys, 6 boys who are servants of the missionaries, and 9 girls who are servants of the…
The missionaries had been called on to explain why they had excluded men for marrying heathen women when no Christian women were available. They cite paragraph 89 of the order of the community.
Continues with the history of the Asafo-Kukurantumi land case. On 12th October 1865 the Kibi Christians woke the missionaries before dawn to appeal to them to intervene, because there was going to be a battle between Kukurantumi on the one side, and…
The report is printed as far as it refers to Kibi as an annex to the 1866 Annual Report (pp 54ff). The additional unpublished material concerns Kukurantumi.
In the course of the year Jonas Ako had come to Kibi as a teacher. The number of members of the community was 8 (25 in the previous year) with 13 communicants and 6 catechumens. There are 19 boys in the school (only 2 heathen) and 5 girls (all…
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