Gold Coast Native Institutions: With Thoughts Upon a Healthy Imperial Policy for the Gold Coast and Ashanti |
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| Title | Gold Coast Native Institutions: With Thoughts Upon a Healthy Imperial Policy for the Gold Coast and Ashanti |
| Author | Casely Hayford |
| Contributor | Fanti Confederation |
| Publisher | Sweet and Maxwell, 1903 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 418 pages |
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