On the Ethnography of Akkrah and Adampe, Gold Coast, Western Africa

Abstract

Among the aboriginal tribes that people the shores of Western Africa are several, which, from their geographical position, customs, diversity of language, and other national peculiarities, merit a more extensive research and consideration into their primitive origin than others. The veil of obscurity which, however, impends over the remote migrations and the distribution of the African races in general, rendered more impenetrable by the absence of any historic evidence or traditional data, constitutes a barrier that effectually precludes any minute inquiry into their progressive development and descent.