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The Pen Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Genre
  
Prosopography

Publication date
  
around 1929

Author
  
Charles Francis Hutchison

Country
  
Gold Coast

The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities is a prosopography or collective biography of prominent (Euro-)African families on what was then the British Gold Coast, written by the prominent Gold Coast African Charles Francis Hutchison around 1929. The document remains an important source for scientific research on the history of the colony, and was for this purpose republished in an annotated scholarly edition by Michel Doortmont of the University of Groningen in 2004.

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The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities Wikipedia