Ghana and Togo Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1843-1957 - Volumes
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Social Services, 1886-1956
Education reports include those for the Gold Coast as a whole between 1894 and 1936 and the Northern Territories from 1926 to 1928. Educational statistics continue the work of the education reports for the years 1954 to 1956. Records of the Achimota College for the Years 1924-1940 also feature. These Gold Coast Reports also include the Medical and Sanitary Reports for Ashanti and the Northern Territories, 1902-1911. Thereafter the Services... Read more →
Transport and Public Works, 1895-1956
The Annual Reports were regularly printed until 1929/30, thereafter cyclostyle copies are available until 1938/39. The Report for 1952/53 noted: "...no annual reports of the activities of the Department have been published for over ten years due to various factors such as World War II, lack of staff in relation to work load, and restrictions on printing". The history of road and rail transport development in the Gold Coast is... Read more →
Communications and Post Office Savings Bank, 1895-1956
Commencing with Post and Telegraph reports from 1895, this grouping then progresses to encompass other Post Office papers from the Handbooks to the Post Office Savings Bank records. Between 1912 and 1936, information relating to the Post Office Savings Bank was incorporated into the Annual Report of the Post and Telegraph Department. Other reports on the communication theme include those for the Broadcasting and Printing departments. Read more →
Commerce, 1889-1956
The papers on commerce focus on two core themes, the former is customs, trade and marketing; the latter is resource production. The then Government's combination of Customs reports with Marine reports serves to emphasize the colonizers' dependence upon its ports, an emphasis reinforced by the trade reports. In the period following World War Two the growth of co-operatives was also actively monitored and encouraged. The development of the economy can... Read more →
