About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah, Peter Turkson, Kingsley Ofosu, Kwasi Jones Martin, Jacob Kwakye-Maafo, Kingsley Fletcher, Osei Kofi Tutu I, Kwasi Wiredu, Esther Afua Ocloo, Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng, Derrick Ashong, Peter Poreku Dery, Alhaji Grunshi, Kwame Gyekye, Nii Parkes, Frank Kobina Parkes, Blitz the Ambassador, Okomfo Anokye, Sam E. Jonah, Michael Blackson, Victoria Zormelo-Gorleku, Darimani, Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, List of Ghanaians, James Bannerman, Kennedy Nkeyasen, Michael Otu, Kofi Siriboe, List of rulers of the Akan state of Dwaben, Alfred Ankamah, Nana Osei Bonsu II, Sam Sarpong, Charles Odamtten Easmon, Kofi Martin Ampomah, Geoffrey Osei-Bonsu, Efua Dorkenoo, Akyempimhene, Kojo Boakye-Djan, Tetteh Quarshie, Ntim Gyakari, Osei Kwadwo. Excerpt: Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, GON, RNL, FRGS (2 April 1859 in Rotterdam - 11 August 1941 in The Hague, Netherlands) was a Dutch businessman, diplomat, world traveller, publicist, and philanthropist. He was a son of Hendrik Muller Sz., a Rotterdam-based Dutch businessman and politician, and Marie Cornelie van Rijckevorsel, member of another prominent Rotterdam based business family. Muller started his career as a businessman, trading with East and West Africa. In his mid-twenties he travelled to Zanzibar, Mozambique, and South Africa for business purposes, but showed himself a keen ethnographer as well, collecting ethnographic artifacts and writing reports about the societies and people he encountered on his way. In 1890, Muller retired from business for personal reasons, and went to Germany to study ethnography and geography. He graduated with a Ph.D. dissertation four years later. In 1896 he was first appointed consul and later consul general for the Orange Free State. Muller held this position all through the Second Boer War and his hi...
