Archives & Resources
Historical documents, museum collections, and academic sources
The Dutch West India Company Archive at the Nationaal Archief
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A practical guide to the West India Company and Guinea Coast records in The Hague: what survives, how the series are org......
PRAAD: Ghana's National Archives and the Asante Record
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Ghana's Public Records and Archives Administration Department holds the colonial and post-independence record of Asante.......
The Manhyia Palace Museum and Archive
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The museum in the old palace at Kumasi is where the Asante kingdom keeps and tells its own history: regalia, photographs......
Asante Collections in Dutch and European Museums
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Where Asante objects ended up in Europe, how those holdings were formed, and how to search the online catalogues of the......
Reading the Sources: European Accounts of Asante and Their Biases
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Bosman, Romer, Bowdich, Dupuis and the Dutch factors wrote most of what survives in writing about early Asante. A guide......
Oral Tradition as Historical Evidence
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Stool histories, drum texts and court historians are records, not folklore. How Asante oral tradition is transmitted, ho......
Digitised Sources for Asante–Dutch History
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What can be consulted from anywhere: Nationaal Archief scans, the Atlas of Mutual Heritage, Delpher newspapers, museum c......
Provenance Research and the Repatriation Debate
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How provenance is established for Asante objects taken in 1874 and after, what Dutch colonial-collections policy now pro......
A Reading List for Asante and Dutch Gold Coast History
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An annotated guide to the scholarship: Wilks and McCaskie on Asante, Yarak and Doortmont on the Dutch coast, Kea on the......
Maps of the Gold Coast: Reading Cartography Critically
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How Dutch and other European cartographers depicted the Gold Coast and its interior, what the blank spaces and confident......
Genealogy and Family History Across Ghana and the Netherlands
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Practical routes for tracing Euro-African and Belanda Hitam descent: Elmina church registers, KNIL service records, Indo......
Conservation of Asante Textiles, Gold and Wood
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What it takes to keep the objects: light and humidity for kente, handling for gilded wood, insects in tropical storage,......