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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    Some Eighteenth-Century Documents Concerning Eastern Africa in the Archives de France
    (1964) Freeman-Grenville, G.S.P.
    During the summer of 1964, with the kind assistance of a grant from the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, the writer was able to make some further searches in the Archives de France for documents concerning the eastern African Coast. The object of this present paper is to give a brief description of the results, which brought to light more than sixty fresh documents which throw some light upon the history of eastern African during what is still a most obscure period.
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    The Provision of Raw Materials for African History
    (International African Institute, 1967-12) Frewer, L.B.
    I want to lay the emphasis on the word "provision" in the title of my paper. The function of the Oxford University Colonial Records Project is to provide. Material cannot be provided unless it is first obtained and this involves a great deal of detective work. Search, discovery, rescue and administration - all these are essential parts of the Project Organiser’s work. The decision to set up an organization to find and preserve papers on the British colonial-period' was taken after much thought by many people over a considerable length of time. They realised that the speed with which British colonial rule was ending might endanger the supply of historical material in the years ahead.
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    Minutes of the Evidence taken before a Committee of the House of Commons, being a Select Committee, Appointed on the 29th day of January 1790
    (1970-01-29) House of Commons
    The Select Committee appointed for the purpose of taking the examination of such witnesses as shall be produced on the part of the several petitioners who have petitioned the Houses of Commons against the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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    Nationalist Ideology in the Gold Coast
    (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, 1969-07) Afari – Gyan
    This thesis focuses primarily on the ideological aspects of the struggle and competition between the Gold Coast .nationalists for the (political) leadership of their people, as seen through the eyes of the native press. But why the press? Christopher Fyfe has succinctly stated the case for the suitability of the press as source material for writing the story of events in colonial Africa
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    Les Arts Sauvages Afrique
    (Albert Morance, France., 1956) Portier, A.; Poncetton, F.
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    Congo - Gabon – Cameroun - Dahomey – Togo
    (J. Peyronnet, Paris., 1930) Herviault, A
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    Report of the Committee appointed to investigate the Possibility of Establishing a Permanent Bureau of African Industries.
    (Government Printing Office, Accra, Gold Coast., 1934) Government of Gold Coast
    In the course of their deliberations, the Committee have been impressed by the large number of local crafts and industries the germs of which already exist in the Gold Coast and which need organisation and direction for development. There are in addition many crafts and industries which exist in other tropical countries and which can and should be introduced to the people of the Gold Coast.
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    Intensive Survey of the Cocoa Producing Areas of the Gold Coast and Trends in Potential Production.
    (Department of Agriculture, Accra, Gold Coast., 1955-12) Tanburn, E.
    The importance of cocoa in the economy of the Gold Coast, and the threatened consequences of the killing swollen shoot disease, are too well known to require further description here. These matters were touched upon in an earlier report (1), when a preliminary investigation was carried out to see what additional use could be made of the vast masses of data collected by the Cocoa Division of the Gold Coast Department of Agriculture during their routine work of locating and treating outbreaks of Swollen Shoot. This investigation resulted in a new post being created for an Agricultural Statistician to work under the direction of the Government Statistician in consultation with the Director of Agriculture; the post was first filled in June, 1954. First priority was given to the study of future trends of cocoa production. Two aspects of cocoa production are treated in this report. The first is a theoretical study of how production is affected by different patterns of planting at different dates, taking into account the drastic decline in planting which occurred during World War II. The second is an analysis of the Cocoa Survey data.