(AFRICA) West African Herald

Sale 2631 - Lot 88

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(AFRICA.) West African Herald. Issue #64. 4 pages, 17 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; separations at folds, otherwise minor wear; small early owner's tag on first page reading "West African paper from Uncle & Auntie Miller, January 1868." Cape Coast, Gold Coast (Ghana): Charles Bannerman, 2 April 1860

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The West Africa Herald was the first Black-owned and operated newspaper printed in Africa. After launching in manuscript form as the Accra Herald in 1857, its first issues came off the press in 1858. Its intended audience was the small but growing number of mission-educated Africans in the British Gold Coast colony. This issue discusses warfare in nearby Quittah, Ahguay, and Akim; a report on a mission to the King of Dahomey; and much more. It concludes with the assurance that it "is edited, printed and published entirely by natives of the Gold Coast." No other copies have been traced at auction.