Index of Busia Papers

Date

Title

Description/Notes

Location

Mrs Busia's Collection

June, 1956

Judge for Yourself

pamphlet written as a companion to manifesto on eve of the elections laying out the N.L.M.'s position on the Constitution, raising the issue of Moral Standards and questionning the CPP's unwise and innefficient administration.

Accra, Ghana

Yes

September 16, 1956

Sociology in a rapidly changing society

Inaugural Address at Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (Leiden)

Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (Leiden)

Yes

November 30, 1959

Gold Coast Independence

Memorandum that lays out opposition position on essential safeguards required to persuade northern territories to accept union with the Gold Coast

 

No

January 4, 1961

The Prospects for Democracy in Africa

Delivered at the Eighteenth Christmas Holiday Lectures and Discusions for Tomorrow's Citizens. Organized by The Council for Education in World Citizenship. London. 4th January 1961

At the 18th Christmas Holiday Lectures and Discussions for Tomorrow's citizens. Council for Education in World Citizenship

No

1961

The Prospects for Democracy in Africa

Shorter, revised version of above lecture - published in United Asia: An International Magazine of Afro-Asian Affairs

Yes

January, 1961

Has the Christian faith been adequately presented?

On the encounter between Christianity and African cultures. Published in International Review of Missions

 

No

December 21, 1961

Press conference on Ghana government's white paper entitled "Statement by the government on the recent conspiracy"

No

April 21, 1963

Freedom and Unity in Christ - In Society

Assembly of the All Africa Church Conference, Kampala, Uganda

No

February 29, 1964

Reflections on one party government in Ghana

public address

No

1964

No

Pamplet. Date:  before or around 1964

No

December 21, 1964

Ghana will be truly free and happy

A pamphlet setting out a vision for Ghana and laying into the realities of Nkrumah's rule

No

January 1965

Ghana Since Independence - a reply

A short letter in The Friends' Quarterly (January 1965) setting the record straight about the situation in Ghana then at the height of one-party rule.

No

February 19, 1965

Address at memorial service for J.B. Danquah

Extempore speech

St Martins-In-The-Fields

No

March 15, 1965

Press conference on petition presented to British Prime Minister on behalf of detainees held without trial

No

April 5, 1965

Nkrumah's challenge

also titled "Busia answers Nkrumah"; a response to the "so-called challenge"

No

June 15, 1965

Address at Runnymede on commemoration of Magna Carta. Society for Individual Freedom

Runnymede

No

August 7, 1969

The Courage and Foresight of Busia

Campaign booklet compiling various statements and papers delivered while in exile. Includes press clippings and the following papers: Why I left Ghana, The fight for Ghana's soul, The arrest and detention of Dr. Danquah and 49 others, the referendum on One-Party state, Nkrumah's challenge, Ghana will be truly free and happy.

No

October 1, 1969

Speech at Inauguration of Second Republic

3 copies

Black Star Square, Accra

No

November 29, 1969

Progress in Unity

9 Durbar speeches delivered between 8-29 November 1969

Various locations in Ghana

Yes

December 1, 1969

Radio and Television Broadcast to the Nation

2 copies

 

No

1970

Apartheid and its elimination

Date: 1970-1971; 2 press conferences and various statements and interviews

No

August 16, 1971

Address to World Y.W.C.A. Council Meeting

Very interesting speech

School of Administration, Legon

No

August 26, 1971

Statement on visit to Britain

delivered as a report to Parliament?

 

No

September 7, 1971

The Road to National Development

Public address at Progress Party rally

Accra Community Centre

No

November, 1971

Invitation to Rev and Mrs Whittle

'Press Clipping from The Times (of London?); either September, November or December 1971

No

December 31, 1971

Towards National Self reliance

radio and tv broadcast to the nation

Yes

1971

Progress Party Booklet

State of the Union type of booklet laying out the party's agenda, achievements and constitution

No

January 21, 1972

Responding to the military overthrow of the elected government of Ghana January 13 1972

pamphlet

Yes

May 24, 1972

To the chairman of the "assets committe" Ghana

pamphlet

 

No

January 13, 1977

To General I.K. Acheampong and to the chairman of the Taylor Assets committee

pamphlet

 

No

1978 - published 1979

Is Democracy of Universal Application ?

This essay, published in 1979, is taken from Menshenrechted Föderalismus Demokratie, Festchrift zum 70. Geburstag von Werner Kaägi (pp. 55-63) - a special volume of essays on democracy on the occasion of Werner Kaägi's 70th birthday. Tightly argued, it cogently distills a lifetime of insight on the eternal topic. It is one of the last published works by Kofi Abrefa Busia, former Prime Minister of Ghana and was written in exile only months before his death in 1978.

Yes

1985

Interview with Papa Agyemang

interview conducted by Obeng Busia; reflecting on the history of the father-son relationship between Papa Agyemang and Busia

Transcript of interview

No