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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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    Minutes of the Evidence taken before a Committee of the House of Commons, being a Select Committee, Appointed on the 29th day of January 1790
    (1970-01-29) House of Commons
    The Select Committee appointed for the purpose of taking the examination of such witnesses as shall be produced on the part of the several petitioners who have petitioned the Houses of Commons against the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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    Nationalist Ideology in the Gold Coast
    (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, 1969-07) Afari – Gyan
    This thesis focuses primarily on the ideological aspects of the struggle and competition between the Gold Coast .nationalists for the (political) leadership of their people, as seen through the eyes of the native press. But why the press? Christopher Fyfe has succinctly stated the case for the suitability of the press as source material for writing the story of events in colonial Africa
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    Intensive Survey of the Cocoa Producing Areas of the Gold Coast and Trends in Potential Production.
    (Department of Agriculture, Accra, Gold Coast., 1955-12) Tanburn, E.
    The importance of cocoa in the economy of the Gold Coast, and the threatened consequences of the killing swollen shoot disease, are too well known to require further description here. These matters were touched upon in an earlier report (1), when a preliminary investigation was carried out to see what additional use could be made of the vast masses of data collected by the Cocoa Division of the Gold Coast Department of Agriculture during their routine work of locating and treating outbreaks of Swollen Shoot. This investigation resulted in a new post being created for an Agricultural Statistician to work under the direction of the Government Statistician in consultation with the Director of Agriculture; the post was first filled in June, 1954. First priority was given to the study of future trends of cocoa production. Two aspects of cocoa production are treated in this report. The first is a theoretical study of how production is affected by different patterns of planting at different dates, taking into account the drastic decline in planting which occurred during World War II. The second is an analysis of the Cocoa Survey data.
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    Despatch relating to the Oil Palm Industry with particular reference to a Subsidy Scheme for Palm Oil Mills
    (Government Printing Office, Gold Coast., 1930) Government of Gold Coast
    I have the honour to address Your Lordship on the subject of the Oil Palm industry in this Colony and to seek your approval of a scheme where under the United Africa Company propose, with the help of a Government subsidy, to make an experiment in developing that industry on modern lines.
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    Further Correspondence relating to Affairs in Ashanti.
    (Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, London., 1896-02) Government of Gold Coast
    In order to avoid any possible misrepresentations on the subject which might have been telegraphed to England, as was the case with regard to the mission to Ashanti and Gaman under the charge of Assistant Inspector Lethbridge, I added to my telegram of the 7th instant* to your Lordship the following words: - " Expedition " will leave at once for Prah for the purpose of interning Dadiassies."
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    Papers on the subject of the Accra Sisal Plantation in continuation of Sessional Paper No. IX 1922 – 1923.
    (Government Printer, Accra, Gold Coast, 1927) Government of the Gold Coast
    I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 874 of the 21st of December, forwarding copies of the Report of a Committee appointed to enquire into the working of the Sisal Plantation at Accra. At the time that this project was originally conceived you anticipated a profit of at least £ 15 10s. 0d. on each ton of sisal produced. This estimate was based upon a price of between £35 and £40 a ton at the port of export, representing approximately £65 a ton in England. The price, however, of sisal has dropped since that date to an average of about £25 a ton at the present time. At this price the Committee estimates that the annual profits of the plantation will amount to a maximum of about £5,500 a year, in which event the capital expenditure of £35,000 which will, according to the estimate, be required before the plantation is in full bearing, be paid off in about seven years.
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    Despatches relating to Colonial Veterinary Services.
    (Government Printer, Accra, Gold Coast., 1929) Government of the Gold Coast
    With reference to my Circular despatch of the 26th January, 1929, I have the honour to inform you that I have now considered the recommendations of the Committee which I appointed to enquire into the question of the organisation and efficiency of the Colonial Veterinary Services. The Committee preface their Report (Cmd. 3261) with an introduction in which they urge the importance of veterinary activities in the Colonial Empire and the need for strengthening the Colonial Veterinary Services and improving the standard of recruitment for them. They state their conviction that the Services should be made more attractive, particularly by the provision of higher salaries in .the senior grades and by an improvement in the status and prestige of Veterinary Departments, but they recognise that almost equally important is the provision of better training facilities in this country, and they refer especially to the condition of the Royal Veterinary College at Camden Town.
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    Report by the Conservator of Forests on Plantations in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
    (Government Press, Accra, Gold Coast., 1922) Government of the Gold Coast
    Three plantations or Agricultural Stations were inspected, viz: at Tamale, Yendi and Wa. The largest is at Yendi and was begun by the Germans many years ago, but there is no record as to when, there are three large Teak trees in the plantation which appear to be between 25 and 30 years old so it may be assumed that the age of the plantation is not more than 30 years.
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    Report and Recommendations of the Committee appointed by His Excellency the Governor in March, 1928, to consider the problems created by the closure of Inefficient Schools.
    (Government Printing Office, Accra, 1929) Government of the Gold Coast
    At a meeting of the Board of Education held in the Council Chamber, Accra, on the 12th March, 1928, various motions were brought forward by the representatives of Missionary bodies aiming at dealing with the situation which had arisen in certain schools through the introduction, of the Education Ordinance, No. 21 of 1925, and the Rules made thereunder.
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    Further Proposals for the Development of Education in the Gold Coast
    (Government Printing Department, Accra, Gold Coast, 1945) Government of Gold Coast
    Sessional Paper No. V of 1944 outlined certain schemes for the immediate expansion of staff required to develop the educational system of the Gold Coast. In addition to a major scheme for the award of scholarships for higher education and professional training, proposals for the increase in the output of teachers were formulated. These proposals provided for the establishment of a Government Teacher-Training College at Tamale, for the duplication of classes in the Tamale Government Senior School and for assistance to certain Mission training colleges and other institutions. Expenditure amounting to £122,125 was contemplated under these proposals and a grant to meet this expenditure was made under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act.