Heritage Materials

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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

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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

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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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    The Gold Coast Review Vol. V No. I
    (The Government of the Gold Coast, 1931) The Government of the Gold Coast
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    The Gold Coast Review Vol. IV. No. 2.
    (The Government of the Gold Coast, 1928) The Government of the Gold Coast
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    The Gold Coast Review
    (The Government of the Gold Coast, 1928) The Government of the Gold Coast
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    Report of the Committee appointed in 1932 by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony to inspect the Prince of Wales College and School, Achimota
    (The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1932) The Government of the Gold Coast
    Report of the Committee appointed in 1932 by the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony to inspect the Prince of Wales College and School, Achimota Sections 35 of the Achimota college and School ordinance provides for the inspection of the college in 1932 and once in every succeeding five years by four inspectors who shall be empowered to inquire into all matters relating to the system of education obtaining at the college and generally into the affairs of the college. We were appointed by the governor for this purpose and informed that the section of the ordinance quoted above constituted our terms of reference.