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. A Survey of the Gold Coast and British Togoland 1919 – 1946
    (Stanford University Press, Stanford., 1949) Bourret, F.M.
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    Selected Ordinances of the Gold Coast Colony
    (Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1920) Kingdom, D.
    In this Code, unless the context otherwise requires, “Act” includes any act or omission and any series of acts or omissions and any combination of acts and omissions
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    Gold Coast Colony:Accra Water Works
    (Governor of the Gold Coast, 1910) Craven, C.S.
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    Letter on the political condition of the gold coast since the exchange of territory between the English and the Dutch governments on January 1 1868 together with a short account of the Ashantee war 1862-4 and the Awoonah war 1866
    (William John Johnson 121, Fleet Street, E.C, 1870) Horton, A. B.
    Rome was not built in a day ; the proudest kingdom in Europe was once in a state of barbarism perhaps worse than now exists amongst the tribes chiefly inhabiting the West Coast of Africa; and it is an incontrovertible axiom that what has been done can again be done. If Europe, therefore, has been raised to her present pitch of civilization by progressive advancement, Africa too, with a guarantee of the civilization of the north, will rise into equal importance. The nucleus has been planted; it is just beginning to show signs of life and future vigour; it shoots out legitimate as well as extraneous buds. Political capital is made of the latter by narrow-minded persons; whilst the liberal-minded, with more philosophy and generosity, make ample allowances for these defects, and encourage the legitimate growth. We may well say that the present state of western Africa is, in fact, the history of the world repeating itself.
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    The Gold Coast Review
    (Government of the Gold Coast, 1925) Government of the Gold Coast
    His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast has been pleased to sanction an attempt to sustain in the Gold Coast the periodical issue of a journal of review of historical and scientific interest on the lines of the admirable Bulletin du Comit" d'Etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Franfaise, or of such publications in parts of the British Empire as, for example, Sudan notes and Records, or of the numerous records of the proceedings of County Archaeological Societies in England. Those coming to the Gold Coast from other parts of the world outside Great Britain have at times thought it a reproach to the Political Service of the Colony in particular that there should be no locally organised publication of studies on points of ethnological, anthropological and archaeological interest. Those of us who have spent some years in that Service know something of the difficulties which have militated against such production, but we know better than to attempt to explain them to an unsympathetic world and can content ourselves with taking the lead now in an endeavour to remedy the defect. It is not intended, however, that the pages of the Gold Coast Review should be restricted to contributions from members of the Gold Coast Political Service or even Government Officers generally, present or past. This first number is almost entirely composed of articles by members of the Political Service, but that is only with the intention encouraging the others. It has also seemed most convenient in the present circumstances of the Colony that the Review should be published under the auspices of the Government and not as a private enterprise, but it is very much hoped that this will not prevent all educated members of the community from regarding the Review as a possession, which with their support may become something of which we may all be proud. Apart from the contributions on subject of scientific and general interest that we may hope to receive from those in Europe with a knowledge of things West African, the Gold Coast itself contains a great variety of persons well qualified to write for the Review. It is hoped that the Administrative Officers of the Government whose duties bring them into close touch with the people of the country, will continue to contribute on points connected with the antiquities, traditions, rites, manners and customs of the Gold Coast: that other Government Officers will write on subjects of local llltere.t that may come under their notice either in a general way or from the point of view of their special professional qualifications: that those who are engaged in mining, agricultural, banking 01' mercantile pursuits will spare time from their engrossing preoccupations either to record for the pages of the Gold Coast Review some special aspects of their business as conditioned by local circumstance or to interest themselves in matters outside their business and, becoming amateurs of science and the arts in accordance with the best tradition of prosperous men of affairs III other communities, give the results of their interest to the world through the pages of the Gold Coast Review: and finally that natives of the country will not shun the Review as a Government publication or a preserve for Europeans, but will give us the advantage of special studies on matters connected with their own country. Such as we see now occasionally and of a "cry good quality III the all too ephemeral setting of the weekly newspapers. The late Mr. J. M. Sarbah und Mr. A. 13. Quartey-Papafio set a good example in contributions of great interest lo the Journal of the African Society, but it has not been followed, and we make a special appeal now to members’ of the Gold Coast Bar and other educated Africa to revive the fashion of making investigations ill a scientific spirit into the customs and institutions their own land and people and to put them on record in the Gold Coast Review.
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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.