Station Census: Missionaries: Ramseyers & Dilger. Catechist: Ph. Kwabi until July, then he was in Mpraeso Teachers: Emm. Dako (married), and since July Johannes Koranteng (unmarried). Reporting on the progress of the Christian community (it is not…
Okanta in a written reply to the charges claimed to have bought only 12/- India rubber from three Christian women, and claimed that Date had done as much. He denied collecting rubber, and as for forbidding the community to tell stories to white men…
On account of Christmas many Akim Christians were at the coast but he was able to meet the assembled community nevertheless. He was impressed by the spirit of the Kibi community - it did him good to feel it - and felt that there there was little…
Part of this report is printed as an annex to the 1893 Annual Report pp48ff with two case studies of converts. Changes in personnel - boarding master at Abetifi B. Martinson, Sam. Kwafo to Mpraeso, D. Okyere to Nkwatia P. Tieku to Asakraka, Imm…
1891 was a peaceful year in Kwahu, and they were able to carry on their work without political interruptions. In Abetifi 34 adults and 18 children were baptised. 5 adults were excluded for sins of coarseness and the flesh. One woman who had come onto…
Personnel - Schmid to Aburi in March, Lehmann in Abetifi April-September when he was needed to fill an unexpected gap in the rank of missionaries in Akropong. 16 Christians moved away from Abetifi. A kernel of the community in Abetifi makes them very…
The backgrcund to this journey was the fact that while the extent of the Afra, plains to the Northeast was known, its extent, and its population (if any) to the north was unknown. The Kwahu people said that in 10 days one reached the province of…
He describes the Anyinam Terry in some detail, a real piece of 'African technology' (he clearly means this in a complimentary sense, offering the Twi ‘abibifio nyansa’). It is a raft 8’ square whose main timbers are three stout forked branches. While…
In several months the new mission house should be habitable. They are building it mostly with the help of craftsmen who are only apprentices. The future garden is marked by piles of black earth and they plan a coffee plantation. The most obvious sign…
This report is printed almost in full as an appendix to the 1897 Annual Report (pp.59-61). The only paragraph lacking from the printed version is that which announces the arrival of assistants for Ramseyer in the person of the missionaries Zellweger…
Part of the report is printed in the Annual Report 1894, pp. 57ff. In the course of the year a large schoolhouse with two rooms was built for the Boarding School, also, a sleeping room for the boarding pupils. In Bompata there are several houses on…
Part of this report is printed as annex to the 1891 Annual Report, pp49f and 51f. Additional material: Personnel changes. Tschopp and Weber both left the station, and Haasis arrived. Catechist Kutabi was posted to Akpamim, Catechist Ntow was posted…
A happy year - the total of the community in Kwahu stands at 219. Abetifi - Personnel - the Weber family arrived in the course of the year. The 22 Abetifi Christians baptised in July included several older people, and several wives of previously…
He reacts to the decision taken by these bodies that only two outstations should be opened in Asante on account of Asante not yet being pacified. Ramseyer’s reaction is to ask simply which of the missionaries was in position to make a judgement about…
The letter is printed in full in Sklavenheim 1898, pp2-7. It is a general account of the progress of the slave-colony to date. There is a Ramseyer letter in Le Missionaire 1898, pp55-57. It does say that they had been advising the Sklavenfreund…
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