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020			_a9789047406341 _q(electronic book)
020			_a9789004140974 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9789047406341 _2DOI
035			_a(OCoLC)229185488
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100	1		_aDoortmont, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison : _bA Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony / _cDoortmont.
246	3		_aA Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2005.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAfrican Sources for African History ; _v7
490	1		_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_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 In effect, The Pen-Pictures is an important socio-historical document.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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aBiography.
650		0	_aCelebrities _zGhana _vBiography.
650		0	_aCelebrities.
650		0	_aFamous people.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tThe Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison : A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005 _z9789004140974 _w(DLC) 2004059613 _w(OCoLC)56729657
830		0	_aAfrican Sources for African History ; _v7.
830		0	_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047406341
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