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.
Remarks over the repairing of the mission house in Kukurantumi, that Akim shingle roofs seem to last only 8 years or so, while in Akwapim, with the more suitable wood available, they last for 20-30 years. Widmann adds in a subscript that the same…
Reports that he has never seen 'in Africa’ such ailing children as have been sent to school with him - sores right down to the bone and crooked limbs. He has sent for medical equipment with which to go about healing them. About one-third of the…
Reports difficulty in inderstanding the gloom about the possibilities in Kukurantumi: (a) all the early converts had been excluded or otherwise lost - but then, on what station has that not been the case? (b) part of the trouble was the lack of women…
Reports that he has taken over a two-mom week old child whose mother had died. A certain fetish claimed that this death was its work, and that the mother must be thrown into the bush, and the child with her.
Concerning the report that the imprisoned missionaries have been executed. Asante is sure that this report is wrong, having other information from fairly sure sources, namely Akims returning from an escape from Asante captivity. They had gone to…
Reports his presence in Kibi during the period when both Haas and Lodholz were away and Eisenschmid had not yet arrived. He also reports the recent arrival of an Asante embassy on the Akim border asking the Okyenhene to carry on trade in salt with…
The assembly at which Asante was first told to leave Akim consisted of Ata and the elders of Kibi, Apedwa, and Apapam, and the 'people': The two charges preferred against him were that he had taken the initiative in getting Ata's slaves baptised, and…
The letter is a commentary on the court action and the Governor's letter asking that he be moved from Kibi. Ata claimed Asante had written letters for people who wanted to accuse him before the English courts. Asante, states that he has never done…
The new teacher for Boso was an Anum man who had gone through several classes of the Akropong Middle School. (This is R. Papa), The Palime congregation had come into being after about a year's preaching by the teacher from Bose and the Bose…
The school had gone on peacefully in 1877 - the boys need to be prompted to tidiness and industry. He gives a biography of one of the Asante pupils. His name was Ofusuhene, his father had been the Asante representative in Kwahu, and thus taken…
Out of the graduates of the school up to 1876 had come 2 catechists, 2 teachers, and 3 fathers of Christian families. This is a history of the Kibi school written from Asante's own knowledge and the information in the school-records. The key moment…
This letter contains the text of the letter Asante sent to the prisoners. Much is printed in the Heidenbote 1870, pp49-50, p78, p121ff. Other points in the manuscript include: The Begorohene had sent a party of men with the hunter who Asante had…
Dokumente betreffend den Beginn einer Mission in Asante 1874-1878, die meisten Dokumente sind von 1874 und 1875. Die Akte kam 1925 via Missionar Nyffeler nach Basel, keine Herkunftsangabe; mit Index / Documents concerning the commencement of a…
In Kibi about 100 slaves have left their masters. Most have fled to the missionaries order to have explained to them what the new law means and often cannot quite believe that from now on they are free. People are also coming from other Akim villages…
He had returned to Akim after the court case in Accra, but had received a letter from the directing committee (G.C. Ausschuss) saying he must be posted out of Akim in view of the Governor's second letter to the Mission, which had threatened to give…
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