Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library docenquiry@soas.ac.uk http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
Opening of Wesley College, Kumasi, Ashanti district, Gold Coast [now Ghana] by Sir F Gordon Guggisberg, R.E., C.M.G., Governor of the Gold Coast territories. Morning of 3 March, 1924. Group of the Governor's staff, missionaries and West African Ministers with a guard of honour formed by the Boy Scouts. Group includes Rev C W Armstrong, College Principal and college staff members Mr. Greaves, Vice-Principal, Ivan Blow [missionary] Rev Francis Grant [African Minister] Mr. Waterworth and Mr Enim [Kumasi district] Mr. Acquaah and Mr E. A Sackey [Sekondi district]. Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
Type
image
Format
photographs silver gelatin prints, 15.4 x 20.5 cm.
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