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Everyday practice often goes unquestioned. Yet in Gold Coast society during the early twentieth century, everyday habits and practices served as an important device for both subalterns and elites to negotiate status or contest colonial control. Between 1900 and 1920, the Gold Coast was experiencing many changes that offered opportunities for actors to influence, negotiate, or contest emerging everyday habits and experiences. The monitoring and modification of everyday habits provided a way for the British colonial government to consolidate its rule in the Gold Coast following the period of military expansion in the late nineteenth century. For many Gold Coasters, increased access to education, the expansion of wage labour and the cocoa industry, led to a reconfiguration of social status and relations affecting daily life. While scholars are increasingly examining the theme of everyday practices, many tend to focus on the experiences of subaltern peoples. This study focuses instead on the role of an emerging, yet subjected, urban elite comprised of educated Africans. Caught between their understanding of African “tradition” and Western ideas of modernity, educated African elite attempted to influence everyday experiences and habits as a way to claim greater authority and enhance their position in the colony. Furthermore, this study examines how colonial administrators, too, used everyday habits and experiences to reinforce colonial governance in Gold Coast. In early twentieth century Gold Coast society, everyday habits and practices served as a battleground for contests for authority and influence as educated Africans and colonizers narrativized their own concepts of modernity and visions of the Gold Coast’s future in the pages of colonial reports, diaries, missionary correspondence, and Gold Coast newspapers. Using this and other primary source material, this thesis demonstrates how space, personhood, and food became important arenas through which various actors – African and European – vied to control, construct, and influence everyday habits and experiences in early twentieth century Gold Coast.

This volume describes the influences that shaped music in southern Ghana before 1966. It is divided into three chapters, covering the periods up to the mid-19th century, from then until the 1930s and from then until the first decade of Independence. Topics covered include music in oral societies, the influence of Kru mariners, Christian missions and urbanisation, the recording industry and the role of nationalism. / Dieser Band beschreibt die Einflüsse, die die Musik im südlichen Ghana vor 1966 formten. Er setzt sich aus drei Teilen zusammen, wobei die Zeiträume bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhundert, von dort bis zu den 1930er Jahren und schließlich bis zur Unabhängigkeit beleuchtet werden. Die bearbeiteten Themen beinhalten Musik in oralen Gesellschaften, den Einfluss der ''Kru-Matrosen'', christliche Missionen und Verstädterung, sowie die Aufnahme-Industrie und die Rolle des Nationalismus.

This volume discusses the history of funerals, a 'total social phenomenon' in southern Ghana. Today, as in the past, festivals are organised, usually involving music, dance and the consumption of alcohol. This study discusses variations over time and between different regions, dealing systematically with the preparation of the corpse, places of burial, modes of commemoration, the high costs involved and the influence of Christian missions. / Dieser Band betrachtet die Geschichte von Beerdigungen, ein 'total social phenomenon' im südlichen Ghana. Heute, wie auch in der Vergangenheit, werden Feste organisiert, die normalerweise Musik, Tanz und den Konsum von Alkohol involvieren. Diese Studie betrachtet Variationen über die Zeit hinweg und zwischen verschiedenen Regionen, während sie sich systematisch mit der Vorbereitung der Leiche, den Orten der Beerdigung, den Arten der Gedenkfeiern, den hohen Kosten und dem Einfluss der christlichen Missionen beschäftigt.

Culicoides molestus (Skuse) is the major species of biting midge that plagues human comfort in the estuarine Gold Coast region of southeast Queensland. Local authorities have initiated a search for an effective, non-chemical means of control, that would minimize human-midge interaction. The effectiveness of a program to control an organism, such as a biting midge, is dependent upon knowledge of the biology of the particular organism of interest. This project revolved examines the lifecycle of C. molestus in detail. It addresses questions regarding the location, seasonal distribution, and dispersal of its juvenile stages in the sand of infested beaches, and their response to chemical treatment, the monthly and annual cycles of the adult midge, and the possibilities of achieving laboratory oviposition, as a first step to laboratory colonisation. The distribution of eggs, larvae and pupae of C. molestus was found to be mostly concentrated around, but below, mean tide level. They also occurred well below the mean tide level. Eggs and larvae have been recovered from as deep as 10 cm in the sand. A seasonal study of the juveniles of this species indicated that they were more strongly influenced by tides than seasons. After a routine pest-control larviciding treatment, a beach recolonisation study revealed that beaches become suitable for oviposition approximately two months after treatment. Large larvae invaded the sprayed areas within days of treatment, which suggests the existence of a refuge outside of the reach of the insecticide. Larvae found in clean (egg- and larva-free), isolated sand containers, placed on the study beach, indicated that larvae could swim in or on the water as a way of moving around the beach. Extended bite-rate studies highlighted the existence of four peaks in adult midge biting activity during the course of a year, around the mid seasons. The strongest peaks of activity were found to be in autumn and spring, but the data suggest that the species undergoes four generations in a year. Through a series of trial-and-error experiments, oviposition under laboratory conditions was achieved. Although the time from blood-feeding to egg maturation is not yet well determined, it occurs within an eight day mean survival period. Blood quality appears critical for adult blood-fed midge survival. Midges fed on the blood of a volunteer who was frequently exposed to midge bites do not live long enough to mature its eggs. The partial ovarial development of one unfed adult female, reared in the laboratory, indicates that C. molestus is facultatively anautogenous.

The study investigated the self-reported information needs and information-seeking behaviour of 143 general practitioners in their delivery of patient care to the elderly on the Gold Coast. The study sought to obtain an information profile in order to begin discussion on the need for possible infrastructures that may need to be considered in any planning strategies concerned with access to and provision of relevant, accurate and timely information to general practitioners which affects their delivery of patient care to the growing number of elderly patients. A ten-page questionnaire utilising both structured and unstructured questions was returned by 61.9 percent of the survey population. Demographic characteristics indicated that respondents were representative of general practitioners in Australia. Respondents frequently needed information with 40 percent requiring it '1 - 4 times a week' and 78 percent 'once a month or more often'. Information on medical fact was required most frequently, 29 percent, medical opinion 27 percent, and non-medical information 23 percent. The study found support for the proposition that computerised information systems need to be enhanced and made widely known and available to general practitioners to assist them in obtaining information that they need in delivery of patient care to the elderly. There is a great need by these general practitioners for non-medical information as well as medical information. Therefore, the development of a database of non-medical information containing information on local agencies and services is of high priority. Library information delivery services should also be de-institutionalised in terms of lifting restrictions to services provided to enable general practitioners greater access to information. Library services should aim to provide remote access to information via telephone, fax and modem with emphasis on value added services aimed at solving a particular specific information need as well as straight-out bibliographic search services and document delivery services. Continuing medical education in the form of CME courses, conferences and meetings should focus on specific information needs of general practitioners in this area of patient care to the elderly. The need for information on cardiology, orthopaedics, dermatology, physiotherapy, podiatry, pharmaceutical benefits, home help, Meals-on-Wheels and nursing home placement were areas of particular interest identified by respondents in this study.