Heritage Materials

Permanent URI for this communityhttp://197.255.125.131:4000/handle/123456789/25483



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

.

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

.

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

.

Browse

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Report on the objections lodged with the Colonial Secretary against the application of the Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1924 to the town of Accra with minutes of evidence.
    (Government Printing Office, Accra, Gold Coast., 1925) Governor of the Gold Coast
    The Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1924 (no. 29 of 1924) was passed by the Legislative Council on the 30th July, 1924, it received the acting governor's assent on the 30th August, 1924, and was published on the 23rd September, 1924, in gazette no. 77 of 1924. It is provided by section 186 of part IX of the Ordinance that the Governor may, subject to a resolution of the Legislative Council, apply the Ordinance to any town of the colony provided that notice of such resolution was published in the gazette not less than two months before such resolution is moved in the legislative council. In virtue thereof a notice in the following terms was published on the 13th September in gazette no. 71 of 1924, and again on the 23rd September, 1924 in gazette no. 77 of 1924 (i.e. the same gazette in which the Ordinance appeared)
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Report of the Committee appointed by the His Excellency the Governor in May, 1923 to consider certain matters which were discussed at the meeting of the Board of Education held on the 16th March, 1923, and to make Recommendations.
    (Government Press, Accra, Gold Coast., 1924) Governor of the Gold Coast
    In accordance with the decisions of His Excellency the Governor as President of the Board of Education at the Meeting of the Board held on the 16th March, 1923, a Committee was, by letter from the Colonial Secretary's Office dated 22nd May, 1923, appointed to consider the following questions; - (a) Fees in Government Schools, (b) Inspection and Registration of Schools and (c) Grants to Secondary Schools.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Report of the Commission on the Civil Service of the Gold Coast, 1951 – 51. (Vol. 1 &2)
    (Messrs C. F. Hodgson & Son, Ltd, 1951) Governor of the Gold Coast
    “To investigate and report on changes which, in order to improve efficiency and economy in administration and to secure elimination of waste, are necessary in relation to organisation, staffing and cadre, and operative methods of all Government departments, and to make recommendations; and further to investigate and report on changes in remuneration of all grades of the Public Service which are necessary to secure more efficient and economic administration, and to make recommendations.”