David Kimble, Ghana: A Political History, 1850-1928 (London, 1963), p. 533.
2.
Ibid, p. 535.
3.
Secretary for the Mines, Report on the Northern Territories Labourers Employed on the Mines from October 1908-December 1909 (Ghana National Archives (Tamale) ADM 1/24).
4.
Colonial Reports, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast 1914, p. 5.
5.
John Maxwell, The Gold Coast Handbook (Accra, 1923 ), p. 356.
6.
This conclusion was reached after interviews with Northerners who have lived for more than 25 years at a stretch in the south.
7.
The Kaya Kaya are probably the most unrespected group of migrant labourers in the south, suffering constant social discrimination.
8.
Maxwell, op. cit., p. 96.
9.
'Medical Department Report, 1938', quoted in Major G. St. J. Orde Browne, Report on Labour Conditions in West Africa (London, 1941), presented to H. M.'s Government.
10.
Ghana Chamber of Mines, Reports. See also the following documents in the archives of the Ghana Chamber of Mines: Drs. A.J. Murray and J.A. Crocket, 'An Interim Report on the Prevalence of Silicosis and Tuberculosis among Mine Workers in the Gold Coast' (1941) and 'Report on Silicosis and Tuberculosis among Mine Workers in the Gold Coast' (1946); Drs. I.G. Irvine and F.W. Simpson Simpson, 'Report upon an Inquiry into the Incidence of Silicosis amongst Native Labourers Employed in the Gold Mines of the Gold Coast Colony'.
11.
Melville J. Herskovits, The Human Factor in ChangingAfrica (New York, 1962), pp. 272-3.
