Author: SMITH, EDWIN W.
Title: Aggrey of Africa. A Study in Black and White.
Description: London: Student Christian Movement, 1929. 1st edition. Biography of the Ghanian intellectual, missionary, Pan-Africanist and teacher. He was born in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) and later emigrated to the United States, but returned to Africa for several years. As part of the Phelps-Stokes Commission to Africa, Aggrey visited 10 countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Cameroon, Nigeria, all in 1920 and the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Angola, and South Africa in 1921. He was a proponent of co-education of girls with boys. Pp.xii/292, maps to endpapers, black & white portrait frontispiece + 8 further photo plates, a selection of quotations - "Aggreyisms" pasted to reverse of front free endpaper and ah illustration of the shield of Prince of Wales College - Achimota (pianokeys design) and Aggrey's quotation pasted to inside of front free endpaper, occasional minor spotting. Black cloth spine with black & white 'snakeskin' pattern paper covered boards, title to spine very rubbed. Good.

Keywords: Edwin Smith Aggrey Africa Black White Ghanian Intellectuall Missionary Pan-Africanist Teacher Educationalist Aggreyisms 52372 General Biography


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