LEADER 03971nam 22007092 450 001 9910451015503321 005 20210531145055.0 010 $a1-280-86715-9 010 $a9786610867158 010 $a1-4294-2741-8 010 $a90-474-0634-6 010 $a1-4337-0762-4 024 7 $a10.1163/9789047406341 035 $a(CKB)1000000000334939 035 $a(EBL)280817 035 $a(OCoLC)437175351 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000219417 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11189812 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219417 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10229356 035 $a(PQKB)10253412 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC280817 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL280817 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10171641 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL86715 035 $a(OCoLC)229185488 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789047406341 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000334939 100 $a20200716d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison $eA Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony /$fDoortmont 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (517 p.) 225 1 $aAfrican Sources for African History ;$v7 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-14097-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEditors' Introduction; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Editorial Notes; List of Entries; The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities; Sources; Bibliography; Name Index; Geographical Index; Subject Index; Authors Index 330 $aIn the late 1920s the Gold Coast businessman Charles Francis Hutchison published the first volume of his book titled The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities. The book contains 162 biographical sketches of Ghanaians that were important in business, in society and the church, in government, and in (nationalist) politics, both from Hutchison's own time and from the nineteenth century. The text of the biographies is in blank verse, and portrait photographs accompany most sketches. Additional photographs of houses and special events, and added biographical information in the form of lists of famous deceased people complete the book. The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast, modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. In effect, The Pen-Pictures is an important socio-historical document. The format, the style of presentation, the intimacy of many of the life histories, the overview offered of non-European Gold Coast society in the 1920s, they all allow for multiple analyses by historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and scholars of language and literature. This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text about an important phase in Ghanaian history. The added introduction and annotation offer a context hitherto unavailable to the scholar and general reader. 410 0$aAfrican Sources for African History ;$v7. 517 3 $aA Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony 606 $aBiography 606 $aCelebrities$zGhana$vBiography 606 $aCelebrities 606 $aFamous people 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBiography. 615 0$aCelebrities 615 0$aCelebrities. 615 0$aFamous people. 676 $a920.06 700 $aDoortmont$01075281 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451015503321 996 $aThe Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison$92584439 997 $aUNINA