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These materials consist primarily of the African, Furley and Folio collections which are being kept at the Africana section of the Balme Library, University of Ghana. Furley and Folio were Dutch writers in the colonial period in the history of Ghana

The collection includes documentary materials relating to the history of Ghana, old books, maps, engravings, pamphlets and manuscripts but most of all archival material. Some portions of the Furley collection contains essays on the local history, customs histories and constitutions of the various tribes of the Gold Coast which was later published in two slim volumes by Welman on Ahanta and Peki

Furley presented his enormous collection of documentary materials of various kinds to the library of the University College of the Gold Coast. After his death, his widow added to this collection some materials which Furley had collected in the last years of his life

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Abstract from Guineisk Journaller in Rips Arkivet Koben Havn
(1845) Government of Gold Coast
Account of a Voyage to the Western Coast of Africa.
(Richard Philips, 6, Bridge Street, 1807) Spilbury, F. B
On presenting the following brief remarks for the perusal of the public, the author feels convinced that they can have no other claim to Notice, than such as they may deserve on account of their Veracity. When he took the various sketches from which the accompanying engravings have been produced, it was with an intention to Give Picturesque Views of the African Coast; but his intentions having been. Rendered abortive by the capture of the ship to winch he belonged, he can now only offer little few trifling observations which he was enabled to make, during the short time he remained • ashore, These, however, will be found, perhaps, to possess no small interest, as they will afford a correct idea of the present State of Sierra Leone, and the slave-Trade, as well as or the custom and manners of the various native tribes.
An Account of the Gold Coast of Africa with a Brief History of the African Company
(Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1812) Meredith, H.
An Account of Two Missionary Voyages
(Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: Northumberland Avenue, London, W.C. 2, 1937) Thompson, A.M.T.
The re-discovery of a forgotten book is always of interest: but the nature of the book here reproduced makes it of rare and striking interest. Two Missionary Voyages is the first-hand story of a pioneer missionary nearly two hundred years ago-one of the many whom the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel sent out to work among the settlers in America, from its foundation in 1701 till the Declaration of Independence closed this channel to its agents. A scholar, a Fellow of his College in Cambridge, it was true missionary enthusiasm that called Thomas Thompson from an easy life in England to face the hardships of a new country. His description of his work among the settlers shows many points of similarity to that which has been done in recent years in remote parts of the Canadian prairies or the Australian bush. But among the white settlers he found a number of Negro slaves, and his missionary zeal overflowed into a special care for these poor folk. So much so that after five years among them he conceived the new idea of sailing across to the Guinea coast of Africa to teach the Christian Faith among the tribes from whom the slaves had been taken. The Society approved his plan, and appointed him the first missionary of our Church to the natives of West Africa. Indeed, it may fairly be claimed that he was the originator of missionary work in West Africa.
Advisory Commission on the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
(Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1968-10) Her Majesty
We were appointed by the Governments of the United Kingdom, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the following terms of reference:- " To survey developments since Federation was inaugurated in 1953, in the economic, political and social spheres and, where possible and appropriate, to make suggestions and analyse the arguments for and against constitutional changes which may he desirable and practicable ", 2, We have discharged the first half of this task in our first Report, the "Survey of Developments since 1953 ", which was prepared in Salisbury in September- October 1959. This second Report, which summarises the results of discussions in London in November- December 1959, is devoted to an examination of suggestions for certain possible cbanges in the Federal Constitution and to an analysis of the main arguments for and against such changes. 3. Our terms of reference do not require us to make recommendations or to indicate any order of preference among the various constitutional adjustments which we have considered. We have therefore confined ourselves to an objective survey of a number of important modifications which may be thought to be possible and desirable within the general ambit of the Federal Constitution. We should perhaps emphasise, at the outset, that:- (a) In considering both the existing constitutional arrangements and possible changes in them we have restricted our examination to elements within the basic structure of the Constitution. In particular, our terms of reference do not extend to matters which are regulated by individual Acts of the Federal Legislature. except in so far as they amend the Constitution. (b) We have naturally not concerned ourselves with the political implications either of the existing Constitution or of the possible modifications of it which we have analysed in this Report. We must emphasise. therefore. that we arc not to be taken as in any way purporting to endorse any of the suggestions discussed in the later chapters of this Report, still less to evaluate their political validity.
Affairs of the Gold Coast and Threatened Ashanti Invasion.
(George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1881-08) Great Britain Colonial Office
Africa History of a Continent
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966) Davidson, D.
Not long ago, while writing about the African past , an elderly scholar of the west African city of Bobo-Dyuasso recalled the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate and opined that Africa had changed since then considering that the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate had occurred a thousand years earlier
Africa Its Peoples and Their Culture History
(McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959) Murdock, G.P.
This book does not present a distillation of long and intimate familiarity with the African continent. The author has had field experience only among indigenous peoples in North America and Oceania, and his first hand. Knowledge of Africa has been limited to three brief visits- a week in Egypt in 1921, four days in Cape Town in 1945, and a fortnight in Kenya and Tanganyika in 1957. His interest in the area stems primarily from the accident of having undertaken, about eight years ago, to offer a graduate course in African ethnology. Exposure to the descriptive literature raised problems of unusual challenge and engendered a mounting enthusiasm. In contrast to regions which man has occupied for only a few thousand years, Africa offers the fascination of a continent inhabited, in all probability, from the very dawn of culture history history, a continent in which diverse races have interacted in complex ways for millennia and in which survivals of extremely archaic cultural adjustments still emerge here and there only slightly masked by subsequent developments.
Africa Speaks
(Guinea Press Limited, Accra., 1959) Dei-Anang, M.
Poetry has a rich and fertile soil in Africa because Africans have no inhibitions about their emotions. They laugh and weep without restraint and leave no one in any doubt of their amusement or displeasure. Africans have unsophisticated innocence. It could almost be said that from the cradle to the grave they regale themselves with songs of joy or soothe their pain with their mellifluous chants of distress. The stuff of which poetry is born is there without measure.
African Business Enterprise A Study of a Group of Traders in Kumasi Part II
(Economic Research Division University College of Ghana Legon., 1959-03) Garlick, P.C.
The Akan peoples, to which the Ashanti belong, are closely allied linguistically, share many common traditions, and are contained largely within the boundaries of Ghana, in the central and southern areas of the country. The matrilineal system embraces the Akans and sane other geographically proximate groups. Most of the business men covered in this survey were Akans and some of the problems of business development can be related to -their matrilineal system of inheritance. These are not problems which are shared by patrilineal tribes, so that in Gham they are largely peculiar to the Akans, who constituted over 40% of t re total population in the 1948 Census of Population. But since cocoa i s to a considerable extent in t he hands of matrilineal peoples, they are among the wealthiest sections of the nation, and a large proportion of Ghanaian business enterprise certainly springs from them.
African Business Enterprise: A Study of a Group of Traders in Kumasi Part 1
(1958-07) Garlick, P.C.
This draft is intended for circulation among a small group of business men, university people and others for their further criticisms of fact, generalizations and emphasis.
African Dilemmas
(Longmans Green And Co., 1948) Huxley, E.
Two moons contest the tide of British policy in Africa. One is our need for a new world to cultivate, if not to conquer: a need sharpened by withdrawal from the East and by the pinch of dollar famine. That moon pulls up the African shore a tide of British interest, money, skill, expectation. Its rival sucks African hope and effort away from British mastery, as from all European hegemony. It gathers a tide of self-determination, of nationalism, which we ourselves blow forward with ever greater force to bring about se)f-rule, and with it our own impotence. So one tide drives us hard towards the continent and the other repels us. Are we going forward or pulling back? In the same year we have launched the groundnut scheme in Tanganyika and brought into being in Nigeria a constitution that gives Africans a majority in the legislature. Both are acclaimed as examples of progress, and each point in an opposite direction.
African Folktales and Sculpture (Series XXXII)
(Bollingen Foundation. Inc., New York, N.Y., 1952) Radin, P.
The two parts of this book, folktales and sculpture, coincide and interrelate only in part. The great sculpture area of native Africa encompasses practically all of the West Africa of the true Negro and most of the Bantu-speaking region centering in the Congo. For reasons not entirely understood, almost no plastic art of much interest has come from the Nilotic, the eastern and southern Bantu, and the Bushman-Hottentot areas. But for the folktale this does not hold. Rich stores of the folktale are encountered everywhere. This volume contains only a selection.
African Glory the Story of Vanished Negro Civilizations
(Watts & Co, 1954) Degraft-Johnson, J. C.
The present study is an attempt to present certain aspect Negro history; and as Africa is today generally regarded as home of the Negro, the present study has taken on, in Some aspect at least the character of African history. To attempt a presentation of Negro history, or indeed of African history in in so small a volume to undertake an impossible task yet it is a task that must be attempted. Mr Thomas Hodgkin, former Secretary to the Oxford University Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, writing in the Highway of February 1952, had this to say about Africa
African Lamd
(1909) Gold Coast Government
The African Slave Trade
(Select Committee of the House of Lords, 1850) Select Committee of the House of Lords
REPORT from the Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed to consider the best Means which Great Britain can adopt for the final • Extinction of the AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. Presented in Session 1850. THAT the Committee have met and considered the Subject Matter to them referred. In following out the Inquiry intrusted to them as to the most effectual means for suppressing the African Slave Trade, have felt it to be their duty, first, to examine the means hitherto employed for this end; to ascertain the amount of success which had attended their employment; whether they could be rendered more effectual, and if so, by what means; the objections urged against them; and whether any other means could be devised, either as substitutes for these, or as accessory to them. The means which have been hitherto employed are: (1.) the formation of Treaties with the various civilized States for the prohibition and suppression of the Slave Trade, and the punishment of those who engage in it by confiscation of their ships. (2.) The formation of Treaties with the Chiefs of Africa, prohibiting the exportation of Slaves from their territories. (3.) The maintenance of certain Forts upon the African Coast. (4.) The maintenance of armed Cruizers on the Coast of Africa, to enforce these Treaties. As regards the first of these means, a large measure of success has attended the efforts of this Country.
African Traders in Kumasi
(Economic Research Division University College of Ghana 1959, 1959-04) Garlick, P.C.
This study is a part of work in progress, but since much of the material §Pes out of date fairly rapidly, it has been thought worthwhile to ~publish in its present form. (A few copies of the first part (since slightly amended) were distributed privately last year). Whatever faults remain, this study owes a very great deal to many people, from the business men who supplied the original information, to University colleagues and busines men, both African and European, who criticized earlier drafts of the material. Especially great is the debt to Dr. and Mrs. Barbu Niculescu and Professor John W. Williams. A continuation of this study has been made possible by a generous grant from the Ford Foundation. The dedication is to African business men in Kumasi, with the hope for their development and prosperity
African Trading, or, The Trials of William Narh Ocansey of Addah, West Coast of Africa, River Volta.
(James Looney, 11 Cable Street, Liverpool., 1881) Ocansey, J.E.
William Narh Ocansey is a native of Addah, situated on the Banks of the River Volta, West Coast of Africa, near to Accra, the capital town, and is a British possession, the people of Addah, being British subjects. Addah is the trade port, and is established between the bar of the River Volta and the sea. , His trade is that of a general merchant. He was inducted into the knowledge of mercantile business when a comparatively young man, and has followed it, with varying success, for more than forty years. He is a man who could almost use the day and night for trade - never weary, never tired, - always doing something.
Africanische Landschaft
(1671) Muller
De Afstand der kust van Guinea aan Engeland
(Overgedrukt vit de Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 1871) Muller (Szn), H.