Includes his outline plans for the Evangelists’ School. He has found few people living as simple Christians with some earlier education - he names the three as Chr. Kwasi Bo from Abetifi, Jos. Obeng from Kukurantumi, Imm. Badu from Akim Akropong. All…
In this half year there were 106 pupils - the first time the numbers had passed 100 - and the building put up in 1894 is already too small. 26 of this number are girls, 65 boys in the boarding section. Of the boys whose home is in Abetifi 20 have…
Is a protest against the ruling which he has just heard of, that Kwahu boys in the Begoro Middle School will in future have to provide their own money for food.
This is partly printed as an annex to the 1898 Annual Report pp 51.52. Additional material: The Obrechts arrived early in the year to take over from the Haasis family, due to go on leave. The Mission Festival in 1897 was held in Nkwatia at the same…
There are more than 100 children in the Abetifi schools. Jost comments on the monitor in charge of the younger forms 'his method reminds one often of the schoolmaster of times past. His teaching is very much a matter of drilling, rather than drawing…
A long-standing woman member of the community had had to be excluded for 'falling' with an excluded man and refusing to live with her husband - Perregaux had in time past held her up as an example. She was part of a reduction .of 4 in the Abetifi…
Outlines the political situation in reply to a letter from Basel concerned about the security of resources invested in Kumasi missionary buildings. He does not think Samory is a danger because he does not believe Samory wants to attack the English,…
Pleads to be spared from being appointed General Praeses on the Gold Coast when Müller retires mostly on the grounds that they do not want to be taken away from Kumasi - it has been a ‘sweet' experience for them to feel the trust that the Asante…
Reports a case in which the (ex-slave) housemother of the ex-slave children had been found involved in the theft of two of the young girls. A French version is printed in full in Le Missionaire 1897 pp90ff. Ramseyer discovered what had happened to…
The Governor has explained that while the English Government has provision for assisting slaves freed on the sea, there is no provision for assisting slaves freed on land – however he made a (presumably personal) donation of £20. He was present at a…
The bulk of this report is communicated in Le Missionaire, 1897, pp.94-95. Additional material: On the whole the chiefs received him well, the Kumwawuhene especially, so he also get to know one of the catechumen in Kumawu especially well, and a…
Throughout the second part of 1896 and the first part of 1897 there is a running struggle going on between Ramseyer and the Gold Coast Standing Committee over the supply of more staff for Asante. In 1896 this was particularly concerned with the…
He has asked the British Government for financial assistance over the orphanage he is running for slave children. There is a letter from Ramseyer in the Sklavenfreund pp162-165 dd. 14 June 1897, reporting on the situation in the freed slave colony,…
Report of a missionary journey south and east of Kumasi. The bulk of is printed in Le Missionaire 1897, pp70-71. Additional material: The paths were on the whole well-kept. He visited Juaso (Dweso) now ruled by the queen-mother and some elders in…
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