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 Kusasis: A short History
    (1970) Syme, J. K. B.
    That part of the Kusasi Tribe which lives in English Territory occupies the fertile lands which lie north of the Gambaga Scarp and East of the Red Volta. Unlike some of their neighbours further west they are blessed with an ample food supply, while their cattle are considered among the best in the country. The area these people inhabit is known as the Kusasi District, though actually now-a-days, owing mostly to immigration from French Country, the Kusasis only from about two thirds of the total population and even many of these are only Kusasis in name.
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    The Gold Coast, 1931.
    (Government Printer, Accra, Gold Coast., 1931) Cardinall, A.W.
    A review of conditions in the Gold Coast in 1931 as compared with those of 1921, based on figures and facts collected by the Chief Census Officer of 1931, together with a Historical, Ethnographical and Sociological Survey of the people of that country.
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    A Brief History of the Dagbamba People.
    (Government Printing Office, Accra., 1931) Tamakloe, E.F.
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    Valley on the March. A history of a group of manors on the Herefordshire March of Wales
    (Oxford University Press, London., 1958) Lord Rennell of Rodd
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    The Ethnography of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, West of the White Volta.
    (The Colonial Office, 1954) Goody, J.
    In this report I have attempted to review the available information on the area, ethnographic, linguistic and historical, in the light of my own field research and of unpublished documents. My interest lay primarily in the Lawra District; I spent little time in Wa or Gonja.
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    A Short History of Sierra Leone
    (The Nation Printing and Publishing Company, Dublin., 1900) Crooks, J.J.
    In the following pages I have attempted to give an outline of the History of the Colony of Sierra Leone for the use of children.
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    The Local Study of Obomeng.
    (Institute of Education, University College, Achimota., 1954) Ansong, I.K.
    Obomeng is one of the group of towns forming the Kwahu district, a plateau- land, bounded on the East by the River Volta, on the West by the town of Kwahu Praso, on the North by River Obosum, on the South by the town of Jejeti. This short local studies of Obomeng, therefore is intended to help the teacher to see the relationship of geographical and historical factors to the different aspect of life of the community.
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    Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America (Volume IV)
    (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C, 1935) Donnan, E.
    The slave trade of the border colonies, like that of those to the north of them, had two aspects, the importation of slaves and the carrying of them to other colonies, but the emphasis must here be shifted. In these provinces the importation of slaves was far more important than the carrying trade, which until after the Revolution was almost solely for their own markets.