cover image: Opening ceremony, Wesley College, Kumasi, Ghana, 3 March, 1923

Opening ceremony, Wesley College, Kumasi, Ghana, 3 March, 1923

1924

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.
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Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2267
Dates
1924-03-03
Format
Photographs
Pages
silver gelatin prints, 15.4 x 20.5 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Ghana
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Ghana
Reference
impa-m2267 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-012-002
Rights
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/
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/fdea5131fd4d7a0e8e0329fc8cb3c7fc

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