Gold Coast (Ghana) - reports, memoranda, and articles, continued, 1942-1977
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 391
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-13 and item 1) minutes of the Fifth Session of the Ashanti Confederacy Council, 19 Oct-9 Nov 1942
- folder 2 (fols. 1-15 and item 1) Ashanti (Ghana): miscellaneous papers concerned with the political and cultural development of the people, 1954-1955
- folder 3 (fols. 1-17) Economic development: memoranda on 'Towards Prosperity: a Plan for the Gold Coast' by Kidman Cox, 1942, on the Cocoa Farmers' Credit Committee, 1946, and on the need for a government austerity policy for imports in 1947
- folder 4 (fols. 1-22) memorandum on 'Consulting Public opinion in the Gold Coast', a paper delivered by George Sinclair of the Gold Coast Administrative Service to the Cambridge Summer School on Local Government, 1947 (see MSS. Perham 252)
- folder 5 (item 1) report on land disputes in the Adansi Division, Obuasi District, Ashanti (Ghana), 1949
- folder 6 (fols. 1-30) notes on politics, political parties, and power in the Gold Coast (Ghana), a policy declaration by K.A. Gbedemah opposing Nkrumah, and a scheme for a book on 'Political Institutional Transfer in the Gold Coast' by David Apter, c. 1951-1972
- folder 7 (item 1) 'Nudity as a social problem in the Gold Coast' by St Clair Drake, Department of Sociology, University College of Ghana, c. 1959
- folder 8 (item 1) statement by the National Executive of the United Party on the Granville Sharp Commission's reports and the Government White Paper, 1959
- folder 9 (items 1-6) seminar and other papers comprising 'Ghana 1962' by Dennis Austin, text of a paper given at Chatham House, 1962 (item 1); 'For Co-operation towards an Encyclopaedia Africana', Information Report No. 5 of the Secretariat to the Ghana Academy of Sciences, 1963 (item 2); Ghana's Development Plan 1963/1964 to 1969/1970: Report by the Economics and Statistics Department, Unilever House, 1964 (item 3); an appeal to the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, from a political detainee in a Ghanaian prison, 1965 (item 4); 'Nkrumah's Ghana and the theory of charisma' by Lionel Tiger, 1965 (item 5); and 'The Historical Roots of Gold Coast Nationalism' by Dr Freda Wolfson, Oxford Commonwealth Studies Seminar paper, n.d. (item 6)
- folder 10 (item 1) text of two letters from Dr K.A. Busia, former Prime Minister of Ghana, to the Chairman of the Assets Committee and the chairman of the Supreme Military Council, 1977.
Dates
- Creation: 1942-1977
Extent
10 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 391
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk