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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 Ghanaian Sphinx : Reflections on the Contemporary History of Ghana, 1972-1987.
    (Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accra., 1989) Boahen, A.A.
    Now, as I reflect on the present state of our dear country, I cannot help recalling this ancient Greek myth, for Ghana does pose a riddle: the riddle being why it is that a country which is so well endowed by Nature has failed so dismally to develop and progress? Or, as the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) put it in its policy guidelines issued in May 1982, "how a nation so endowed with such resources could be entangled in an ever deepening crisis". And Ghana is indeed endowed. Her material resources are second to none; her soil and climate are ideal for the production of every conceivable tropical and savanna crop; her mineral resources of gold, diamond, bauxite, manganese and possibly oil are the envy of many countries. Her human resources are unparalleled in Africa.