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Title:The Ashanti Times: A Footnote to Ghanaian Press History
Author:Chick, John D.
Year:1977
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:76
Issue:302
Period:January
Pages:80-94
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:media history
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/722016
Abstract:The Ashanti Times, (1947) published twice weekly at the mining town of Obuasi, developed from the house journal of one of the colony's most powerful mining companies. It made no secret of its affiliation to the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, nor of its sympaties for expatriate participation in the African economy. It owned its existence almost entirely to the initiative of the Chairman of Ashanti Goldfields, the late Major-General Sir Edward Spears. The article describes the history of this journal (since 1959 the New Ashanti Times), which never reached the status of a national newspaper and closed down in January 1970. Notes.
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