The Ghana Public Records and Archives Administration Department-Tamale: A Guide for Users

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 449-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iddirisu Abdulai
Keyword(s):  
Gold Coast ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Public Records ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Government ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
Foreign Researcher ◽  
Brong Ahafo

This department, which was until December, 1997 known as the National Archives of Ghana, takes care of documents from northern Ghana, and has served both local and international researchers since its establishment in 1960. The Ghana Public Records and Archives Administration department in Tamale has had quite a number of visiting researchers, but there are few descriptive guide for users. This paper is intended to serve as an introductory guide in this respect.Between 1950 and 1954, the Gold Coast Archivist undertook a survey of District records in the various district headquarters of what was then the Gold Coast Colony, Ashanti, and the Northern Territories. This led to the establishment of the National Archives of Ghana, offices at Kumasi on 3 August 1959. This was intended first to serve the Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, and Northern Ghana areas. The office was housed on the premises of the Government Agent's office at Kumase. When the Tamale office was opened, it was also housed on the premises of the Regional Administration there. The space is very cramped and there have been constant calls on the department to look for their own accommodation.The archives opens at 8.00am, but requests for documents from the repository starts only at 9.00am and lasts until 3.00pm, except for a break between 12:30pm and 1:30pm, during which no documents can be requested. The visitors' book must always be signed.An international/foreign researcher is required to bring a letter of introduction from the Ghana Public Records and Archives Administraton headquarters in Accra.

Repercussions of World War I in the Gold Coast

1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Killingray
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
External Trade ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Government ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
Post War

Although on the periphery of the war Gold Coast resources and manpower were mobilized for the imperial war effort. The educated élite and many traditional rulers were loyal and internal conditions, despite the withdrawal of personnel and troops, generally peaceful. Small-scale disturbances occasioned by the war occurred, the most serious in the Northern Territories. The direction and pattern of Gold Coast external trade changed; exports, with the exception of cocoa, contracted and the price of imports rose. Serious shipping shortages exacerbated difficulties. British ‘Combine’ firms increased their hold over Gold Coast commerce. A fall in government revenue held up public works, and railway construction was paid for by an export duty on cocoa. The war brought marked changes to the government fiscal system. Gold Coast troops were used in the West and East African campaigns and prepared for employment in the Middle East. Varying degrees of compulsion were used to recruit carriers and soldiers and resistance to this was widespread. Labour shortages and the withdrawal of whites provided new job opportunities for Africans. Cocoa and palm kernels were subject to imperial direction and control; Governor Clifford opposed the imperial preference scheme for palm kernels. Imperial wartime economic measures fuelled the nationalism of the NCBWA; the Gold Coast élite demanded political representation as a reward for wartime loyalty, while their economic resolutions attempted to displace European commercial interests strengthened during the war. Economic changes further weakened the position of traditional rulers; labour shortages provided wage labour with temporarily enhanced bargaining power. Post-war trouble from ex-servicemen was slight.

K. R. S. Morris and Tsetse Eradication in the Gold Coast, 1928–51

Africa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff D. Grischow
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Tsetse Fly ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Tsetse Flies ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Added Benefit ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
Main Programme

AbstractThis article investigates the anti-tsetse fly work of colonial entomologist K. R. S. Morris in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast between 1928 and 1951. Morris's main programme was directed at the Lawra District of the north-west, where he claimed to have eliminated the tsetse population and trypanosomiasis by the end of his tenure. This achievement allowed farmers to move into the formerly infested land and reclaim the area for agricultural development. As an added benefit, Morris also claimed, eliminating tsetse flies in the Lawra District reduced the incidence of sleeping sickness in the main market towns of north-west Ashanti. The article charts Morris's work, which is historically significant for a number of reasons. First, it reveals much about the connection between anti-tsetse work and colonial development doctrine in northern Ghana. Second, it highlights the importance of studying colonial practices. Morris's clearing programme appears to have worked, but it was almost certainly based on faulty theories of tsetse ecology. In this sense, the story of anti-tsetse work in the Northern Territories shows that we might learn as much from colonial practices as from colonial ideologies.

Forced Labour in British West Africa: The Case of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast 1906–1927

1973 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger G. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Compound System ◽  
High Death Rate ◽  
High Death ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
The Government ◽  
Northern Territories

It has been argued that forced labour in British West Africa did not extend to recruitment for commercial companies. One case that appears to have been overlooked is that of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast where, at various times between 1906 and 1924, recruitment for the privately-owned gold mines of the Tarkwa-Prestea area was associated with government recruitment for public works—itself on the shadowy borderline between ‘communal’ and ‘forced’ labour.Organized recruitment for the mines was adjudged necessary because of the reluctance of local labour to work underground. The independent attitudes of even recruited labour led the mines to associate their requests for organized recruitment with pressure for much tighter labour discipline, including bringing suits for breach of contract under criminal law and the introduction of a pass law and compound system. However, these schemes were rejected by the government.The period of greatest government assistance to mine recruitment, 1920–4, ended when the high death rate among labourers at the mines was revealed and the government suspended recruitment. It is the contention of this paper that the high death rate was due not only to poor health conditions at the mines, but also to forced recruitment in a situation where there was considerable voluntary labour migration. Under these circumstances the chiefs were obliged to supply the weaker members of the community.

Northern Frontiers

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-290
Author(s):  
John Parker
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Horse Riding ◽  
Volta Basin ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northern Territories

This chapter recounts the early life and death of Gandah, a naa or 'chief', of Birifu, a dispersed settlement of traditional mud-walled compounds located near the bank of the Black Volta River in the northwestern corner of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. It narrates the final stages of Gandah's life as a renowned healer and accumulator of ritual 'medicines'. The chapter investigates how Gandah's story encapsulated key themes in the history of death and the dead in the Northern Territories in the first half of the twentieth century. This was a region that was in many ways quite distinct from the Akan forest and Gold Coast to the south. Historically, connections between the Akan world and the peoples of the middle Volta savannas did exist. Yet in terms of ecology, culture and political structure, the savanna, as the Akan perceived it, was another realm. The chapter outlines the emergence of a complex of kingdoms forged by horse-riding migrants who from the fifteenth century entered the savannas of the Volta basin straddling present-day Burkina Faso and northern Ghana.

scholarly journals The Dual Meanings of Artifacts: Public Culture, Food, and Government in the “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” Exhibition

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110031
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Petre ◽  
David Haldane Lee
Keyword(s):  
Disease Control ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Industrial Food Production ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Constitution ◽  
Propaganda Posters

In 2011, “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? The Government’s Effect on the American Diet” (WCUS) was exhibited at the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Afterward, it toured the country, visiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) David J. Sencer Museum in Atlanta, the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka. The exhibition website states that WCUS was “made possible” by candy corporation Mars, Incorporated. WCUS featured over a 100 artifacts tracing “the Government’s effect on what Americans eat.” Divided into four thematic sections (Farm, Factory, Kitchen, and Table), WCUS moves from agrarianism, through industrial food production and into mess halls, cafeterias, and individual kitchens. Photos, documents, news clippings, and colorful propaganda posters portray the government as a benevolent supporter of agriculture, feeder of soldiers and children, and protector of consumer health and safety. Visitors are positioned as citizens in an ideological mélange of paternalism and patriotism. In this rhetorical walk-through of the exhibition, we consider the display of archival materials for purposes of positioning, in consideration of past and present issues of diet and governance. Making explicit unstated assumptions, we claim that, although propagandistic artifacts take on different meanings to those viewing them decades later as memorabilia, they maintain their ideological flavor.

scholarly journals Senatorial Revision of I. N. Tolstoy of Yakutsk Region in 1844

2020 ◽  
pp. 271-290
Author(s):  
A. I. Arkhipova ◽  
P. P. Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Russian State ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Audit Activity ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First Time

For the first time in historiography, an attempt is made to illuminate the activities of Senator I.N. Tolstoy in conducting an audit of the regional management system of the Yakutsk region. Particular attention is paid to the audit of office work of the Yakutsk regional administration and the Yakutsk city hall. The novelty of the study is in the fact that, based on an analysis of archival sources first introduced into scientific circulation, the specifics of the functioning of the regional administration in the second quarter of the 19th century is revealed, and the results of the audit are considered as prerequisites for expanding the rights of administrative independence of the Yakutsk region from the Irkutsk province. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that this was the only senatorial revision for all years in the territory of the vast and geographically remote Yakutsk region, which has not undergone extensive scientific study. In the course of the presentation of the substantive part, a review of the main directions of the audit activity in relation to the regional and district levels of government, as well as its inspection supervision of the activities of the lower administrative authorities, including the city hall, was performed. Based on the author’s development, it was proved that the senatorial audit, reflecting the attention of the imperial authorities to the periphery, was aimed primarily at increasing the efficiency of the Siberian suburbs management system on the example of the Yakutsk region through personnel shifts and elimination of identified office work disturbances. The study was based on documents first discovered in the archives of the Russian State Historical Archive and the National Archives of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

scholarly journals Creation and Development of State Food Security System in Yakutia in 19th Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 308-321
Author(s):  
N. I. Burnasheva
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Food Reserves ◽  
Spread Of Agriculture ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
The 19Th Century

Based on the documents of the National Archives of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), published reviews and reports of the regional administration, the creation of state and public grain and food reserves in the 19th century Yakutsk region that were necessary for the population to protect them from starvation and mortality in cattle during adverse years is considered. The main attention is paid to the influence of the bread storage system on the distribution of agriculture, the development of traditional crafts and occupations of foreigners, the development of loan and entrepreneurship. It is noted that, with the efforts and purposeful work of the regional government in Yakutia in the 19th century, along with state-owned shops, a network of rural public bakery stores was created that could adequately provide the population of the region with food, hay and other reserves. It is shown that the organization of a food safety system in the Yakutsk region was based on the principles of a careful attitude of the state to the needs of its subjects, which significantly increased the importance of government events, strengthened the authority and trust of the population in the activities of government. It is concluded that the process of organizing the bread storage system and food funds created favorable conditions for the spread of agriculture in the region, supported traditional crafts and occupations of the population, and opened up opportunities for the development of entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals Implementation of Distance Learning and Assessment in Kindergarten in Emergency Circumtances

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Purnamasari ◽  
Anggraeni Heru ◽  
Fera Herawati
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Developmental Stage ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
The Government ◽  
Teachers And Parents

This study aims to get a clearer picture of distance learning (DL) in kindergarten and its assessment, to provide recommendations for policy options related to DL in kindergarten to optimizing students' development and abilities in the emergency. This study was randomly sampling subjects, which are principals, teachers, and parents who had kindergarten-age children. The data collection was through interviews, documentation, and questionnaires deployed by Google form. The results of this study showed that the best format of DL in kindergarten is blended. The assessment for this blended learning that can be done both by teacher and parents are by using communication forum and checklist sheets. Policy options for DL in kindergarten are the use of package modules/books, home visits, activity sheets, television and radio, and the coordination of the government at central and regional administration, and education stakeholders. These policy options become necessary because of the quality of DL based on the knowledge and skills of the teacher/parents that corresponds to the child's developmental stage. DL in kindergarten is the fulfillment of education rights to children in any circumstances. This effort optimizing the children's development of abilities and potential as expected

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