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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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    Ashantee War
    (1864-06-14) The House of Commons
    Copies or Extracts of any Despatches from the Governor of the Gold Coast explaining the cause of the War with the King of Ashantee; of any Despatches from the Secretary of State to the Governor of the Gold Coast, directing him to prosecute the War; Returns of the Expense already incurred in this War; and, of the Number of Officers and European Troops landed at Cape Coast Castle, and Date of Landing.
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    Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Twi) - Second Edition
    (Friedrich Reinhardt, Ltd. Basel., 1933) Christaller, J.G.
    Tshi, or Twi, is the language prevalent in the Gold Coast countries between the rivers Asini and Tanno on the W. and the Volta on the E., and extends even beyond this river; its southern boundary is the sea- coast, while the upper course of the Volta, and the Kong mountains are its northern limits. That is, roughly, the area of the old Asante empire when it had its greatest extension. Formerly, Guang dialects were spoken throughout the Gold Coast, but in the course of time they were, in most places, superseded by Tshi. – The number of people who speak Tshi may be estimated at about 2 million; and the language is steadily gaining ground.
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    Christianborg Diary 1684
    (1684) Government of Gold Coast
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    Gold Coast 1691 XIX
    (Government of Gold Coast, 1691) Government of Gold Coast