Reports cases both of a catechumen who confessed sins voluntarily because 'the Word of God gave him no peace' (a man called Kyekye), and another who lied about his having committed no major sins. Reports political difficulties in Worawora town. The…
Has had to train local people as shingle-splitters; has been able to bring two carpenters and two sawyers from Worawora and Kpalime. Wages - for a carpenter's apprentice 6d-9d a day, for a carpenter 1/8d. The sawyers have gone off home again,…
They go over the same ground mainly as Müller (see No. 186). The only social consideration brought into focus appears to be the widespread request for teachers. Martin gives an account of the routes which might be exploited were the station built in…
Mohr's recommendation of Tapa as a European Station was not widely backed - even before he landed at Accra Pfisterer met the veteran Rottmann en route for Europe who expressed himself strongly against Tapa and wanted to know why they were not setting…
He has 3 adult ex-slaves with him (elderly men) and 4 ex-slave children. Enough temu-speaking people come through Adele for him to have learned to carry on ordinary conversation in the language.
Reports Clerk's expedition to Krakye and the need to take up the opening quickly - Pastor Hall once reported that the young people had long been waiting for a teacher, and that many were sighing under the oppression of the fetish. So theyshould go to…
A general report on events in Atwati and Adele. On the capture of the fetish priest of Buruku at Siare by the Germans, Mischlich repeats material already reported to Basel with certain additions: Mischlich himself had been involved in a riot in Siare…
Reporting a journey to Krakye - the wag Krakye chief's reply to the question whether or not they wanted a school was that they did not want a school - they would send another boy to school if that was wanted, but that was all. A German official,…
He has the impression that the presence of the church is causing changes, including the point that now it does not cause a crisis when someone wants to become a Christian. Even fetish priests and their families are content to see their children…
A report on the Basel Mission schools in the English Volta district. Anum - 75 children, 34 of them boarding boys, and overall increase of 13. He points out that only 41 pupils are actually from Anum. The coffee plantation brought little return in…
Lists the building operations on mission land, (other than members' houses) carried on the year: Anum - a second cistern, and a 30 lengthening of the chapel Toseng - a 2-room shingle roof teacher's house and a chapel Bose - a new storehouse Kpalime -…
Reports, up to September, a serious drought, with foodstuff being brought into Abetifi from many hours away. He himself ascribes the lack of rain to the cutting down of the forest in Kwahu, partly in pursuit of food farms (the average length of work…
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…
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