Robert Sutherland Rattray

Robert Sutherland Rattray was born in India in 1881. After joining the African Lakes Corporation in British Central Africa, he lived among the Nyanja-speaking peoples there. He then entered the colonial service of the Gold Coast, where he was an assistant district commissioner, trained in anthropology at Oxford and became head of the anthropology department of Ashanti, whose proverbs, religion and law he published. He died in England in 1938 in a gliding accident.

In the catalogue 2

• TaleSome Folk-lore Stories and Songs in ChinyanjaRobert Sutherland Rattray · 1907Literature
• TaleAkan-Ashanti Folk-TalesRobert Sutherland Rattray · 1930LiteraturePublic domain