LEADER 03884nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910828300803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $a20040923d2005 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 $ea collective biography of elite society in the Gold Coast Colony /$fby Michel R. Doortmont 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (517 p.) 225 1 $aAfrican sources for African history,$x1567-6951 ;$vv. 7 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-14097-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [453]-461) and indexes. 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 In effect, The Pen-Pictures is an important socio-historical document.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 ;$vv. 7. 606 $aCelebrities$zGhana$vBiography 607 $aGhana$vBiography 615 0$aCelebrities 676 $a920.06 676 $aB 700 $aDoortmont$b Michel$01678655 701 $aHutchison$b Charles Francis$01678656 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828300803321 996 $aThe Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison$94046459 997 $aUNINA