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 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information on the area, ethnographic, linguistic and historical, in the light of my own field research and of unpublished documents.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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    Gold Coast Mission History 1471-1880
    (DMNE WORD PUBLICATIONS, TECHNY, ILLINOIS, U.S.A., 1956) Bowers, J.O.
    The Gold Coast, a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations, is politically foremost of all Commonwealth Colonial territories in tropical Africa. Situated on the Gulf of Guinea, it is bounded by that gulf on the south, on the east by Togoland under French trusteeship, on the north by Haute Volta and on the west by the Ivory Coast. The total area is approximately 91,843 square miles, slightly larger than that of Great Britain. This includes the Colony along the coast, Ashanti, the Northern Territories and a narrow strip of Togoland, held by the British under Mandate from the League of Nations since 1919 and placed under Trusteeship in 1946. The 334 miles of coast consist generally of a low sandy foreshore on which the Atlantic swell breaks almost unceasingly. As for the people along the coast, they are divided into twenty-one states, passing from west to east: Western Nzima, Eastern Nzima, Upper and Lower Axim, Upper and Lower Dixcove, Ahanta, Dutch and English Sekondi, Shama, Komenda, Edina, Ogua, Nkusukum, Anomabu, Ebiram, Winneba, Gomoa Asen, Ga, Prarnpram and Ada. Many of these divisions have been introduced as a result ( of European settlements on the coast, there being only fourteen states in the j: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and perhaps already that many in 1471 L when the Portuguese arrived.
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    A Brief History of Gold Coast Journalism
    (Magnus J. Sampson, 1934) Sampson, M.J.
    It is a piece of good fortune to u, as a people that the late redoubtable Casely Hayford of blessed memory has recorded in his.’ GOLD COAST NTIVE INSTITUTIONS the rise and progress of Journalism m this country from the days of Charles Bannerman in the "seventies up to the close of the last century. For this commendable piece' of pioneering and patriotic work. He richly deserves the thanks, of his countrymen.
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    An Account of the Gold Coast of Africa with a Brief History of the African Company
    (Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1812) Meredith, H.
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    Letters of the Political Condition of the Gold Coast
    (William John Johnson, London., 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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    A Brief History of Gold Coast Journalism
    (1934-07) Magnus., J.; Sampson, B.A.
    The Substance Of This Historical Narrative Was First Delivered At A Lecture Under The Distinguished Chairmanship Of Dr. J. R. Forde, M.B.,Ch.B.(Senior Medical Officer) Supported By His Amiable Wife, Mrs. Forde On July 9th, 1932 Under The Auspices Of St. John’s Church(English Church Mission) Winneba. Shortly Afterwards I Wrote A Summary Of The Lecture For The 1932 Special Christmas Number Of The Gold Coast Independent Under The Title Of ‘’Masters Of Gold Journalism’’