The Cultural Training of a Child from Birth to Adolescence as obtained at Mankessim

Abstract

Mankessim is a village situated in the old central province province of the Gold coast colony and lying on the Accra- Takoradi motor road.the nearest coastal town is saltpond six miles west of it there is a road which runs in a northerly direction from the Village to Kumasi in Ashanti, the situation is such that Takoradi, Accra and Kumasi are roughly equidistant from it there are about two hundred houses most of which are sevish and roofed which corrugated iron sheets the population is about two thousand