Author: Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783920707327
Category : Akim Abuakwa
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Akyem Abuakwa and the Politics of the Inter-war Period in Ghana
Author: Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783920707327
Category : Akim Abuakwa
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana
Author: Richard RathbonePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300055047
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In 1943, ritual murder was committed in a large African kingdom in the south of Ghana, then a colony of Great Britain. Palace officials and close kin of a recently deceased king had reputedly killed one of his chiefs in order to smooth the king's passage into the afterlife. This riveting study tells the story of the murder, the trials and appeals of those accused of the crime, and the effect of the case on politics in Ghana and Great Britain. In recounting this fascinating case, the book also provides important insights into law and politics in the colonial Gold Coast, the clash between traditional and modern values, and the nature of African monarchy in the colonial period. Drawing on newly available oral and written evidence from Ghana and Britain, Richard Rathbone builds a detailed picture of the leading characters in the case, as well as of the thirty-year rule of Nana Ofori Atta, the king. He shows how the death of the king destroyed the economic, social, and moral fabric of the kingdom, and how this destruction was further exacerbated by legal proceedings resulting from the murder. The case set the indigenous royal family against the colonial government, challenging the authority of each. Close kinsmen of the accused, hitherto in the vanguard of moderate nationalism, were radicalized by their extended confrontation with the colonial justice system. It was their political initiatives that accelerated the formation of the Gold Coast's first national political party in the late 1940s, and which led in turn to the struggle for self-government and to the achievement of Ghanian independence in 1957.
Die Mitteilungen der Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Author: Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Communications from the Basel Africa Bibliography vol. 13
Author: Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Languages of the Akan Area: Papers in Western Kwa Linguistics and on the Linguistic Geography of the Area of Ancient Begho
Author: H. M. J. TrutenauPublisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana
Author: Kwaku NtiPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253067944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region experienced creeping British imperialism and incorporation into the British Gold Coast colony. Drawing on a wealth of Ghanian archival sources, historian Kwaku Nti shows how many aspects of traditional maritime daily life—customary ritual performances, fishing, and concepts of ownership, and land—served as a means of resistance and allowed residents to contest and influence the socio-political transformations of the era. Nti explored how the Ebusua (female) and Asafo (male) local social groups, especially in Cape Coast, became bastions of indigenous identity and traditions during British colonial rule, while at the same time functioning as focal points for demanding a share of emerging economic opportunities. A convincing demonstration of the power of the indigenous everyday life to complicate the reach of empire, Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana reveals a fuller history of West African coastal communities.
Land, Labour and the Family in Southern Ghana
Author: Kojo AmanorPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064684
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
This report is based on field work carried out in the Akyem Abuakwa area of the forest region of Ghana, a section of the country rich in agricultural land, gold, and diamonds. Through the field work which was undertaken and the empirical material generated, the author attempts to chart the processes and patterns of differentiation connected to land and land use in contemporary Ghana.
The Asafoi (socio-military Groups) in the History and Politics of Accra (Ghana) from the 17th to the Mid-20th Century
Author: John Kwadwo Osei-TutuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accra (Ghana)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A Survey of Southern African Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
Author: Robert W. BaldockPublisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Over the past ten years the attention given in British universities to the study of southern Africa has grown rapidly. In 1969 a symposium held under the auspices of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK) to review the state of current work on southern Africa in Britain and in Africa itself revealed the diversity of research in progress, as well as practical and political problems involved in such research.
ommunications from the Basel Africa bibliography
Author: Publisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description