Gold Coast (Ghana) - reports, memoranda, and articles, 1932-1965
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 390
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-33 and items 1-3) education: reports on Achimota College, 1932 (item 1); paper read to the African Circle by Fraser in 1933 (fols. 1-7); 'Guide to the Teachers' Journal, 1928-1939' (item 2); report to the Oxford University Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies on its Secretary's visit to the Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1947 (fols. 8-16); and reports to the Kumasi College of Technology (fols. 21-22) and the University (College) of the Gold Coast, 1953-1964 (item 3 and fols. 25-33)
- folder 2 (items 1-2) Gold Coast Gazette Extraordinary for 25 Jan 1933 and 1 Feb 1949
- folder 3 (fols. 1-8 and items 1-2) articles on Gold Coast (Ghana) history, including: 'Ritual Festivals and Social Cohesion in the Hinterlands of the Gold Coast' by M. Fortes, American Anthropologist, Vol. 38, No. 4, 1936 (item 1); 'Political Democracy in the Gold Coast' by David Apter, Africa in the Modern World, 1955 (item 2); 'Gold Coast into Ghana: Some Problems of Transition' by Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, International Affairs, 1957 (fols. 2-5); 'Report on recent historical work in Ghana, 1965' (fols. 6-8)
- folder 4 (fols. 1-23) memoranda by officials on administration in the Gold Coast and Ashanti (Ghana), 1937-1943
- folder 5 (fols. 1-68) articles and memoranda on miscellaneous administrative problems, 1938-c. 1943, including: 'Extracts from First Steps towards a National Fund by the Youth Conference Continuation Committee', 1938 (fols. 1-13); 'Some Problems of Indirect Rule in the Gold Coast' by M.J. Field, n.d. (fols. 14-24); 'General Characteristics of the Gold Coast', anonymous (fols. 25-58); memorandum on 'Land ' by C.K. Meek, 1943 (fols. 59-61) and 'The Making of Ghana: a note on some sources' (fols. 62-68)
- folder 6 (item 1) official memorandum on 'The Cocoa hold-up and boycott in Ashanti', 1938
- folder 7 (item 1) memorandum on the proposed Institute of West African Arts, Industries, and Social Science, adopted by the Achimota Council on 18 Jul 1942.
Dates
- Creation: 1932-1965
Extent
7 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 390
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk