Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Public Records and Archives Administration Department, Regional Office, Sunyani.
    • Postal Address:

      P.O. Box 109
      Sunyani
      Ghana
    • Location:

      Sunyani Prisons Berekum Road
    • Telephone:

      (233) 27364
    • Director:

      Mr. Harry Ottopah Appiah
    • Year founded:

      1961
  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive
    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Government records
      Maps
      Newspapers
      Photographs
    • Size:

      3,500 volumes of records
    • Holdings:

      The records consist of administrative and court records. They include correspondence, memoranda minutes, reports, court docket, court record books and government publications. They range from 1906 to 1987.

    • Receiving new material?

      No
    • Languages:

      English
  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Searcher's Ticket/Letters of Introduction

    • Access restrictions:

      30 years

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Guides
    • Copier available?:

      No
  • Repository publications:

    • Thomas Kwame Aning. Guide to the Administrative Records in the National Archives--Brong Ahafo Region.
    • Thomas K. Aning. Guide to the Court Record Books in the National Archives of Ghana-- Brong Ahafo Regional Office Sunyani 1924-1972.
  • References:

    <a href="http://acs.tamu.edu/~yarak/GSC96Austin.htm">Austin, Gareth. "The Sunyani Branch of the National Archives: An Introductory Note." <I>Ghana Studies Council Newsletter</I> 9 (Spring/Summer 1996).</a>