Author: John Joseph CrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Collection of official documents"--Foreword.
Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874
Author: John Joseph CrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Collection of official documents"--Foreword.
Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874. Edited by J.J. Crooks
Author: J. J. CrooksRecords relating to the Gold Coast settlements
Author: Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settleeents from 1750 to 1874. [Ed.] by J. J. Crooks
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Author: J. J. CrooksRecords Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874
Author: Major J.J. CrooksPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136960775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
First Published in 1973. Forming part of a collection on general African studies, this text presents records of the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874, by the Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone, Major Crooks. It covers the period from the formation of the last African Company of Merchants in 1750 until the conclusion of the third Ashantee War in 1874.
Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750-1874
Author: JJ. CrooksSettlements, Trade, and Polities in the Seventeenth-century Gold Coast
Author: Ray A. KeaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Kakaamotobe
Author: Courtnay MicotsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793643105
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Kakaamotobe, meaning to scare, is known across southern Ghana, West Africa, as Fancy Dress performance. Masqueraders dress in colorful costumes and wear fancy and fierce masks; they dance energetically to drums or brass band music through the main streets of town during holidays, especially during Christmastime. Competitions held in two towns are intense annual events. This lively secular masquerade is a carnival form that has been practiced for well over a century primarily by coastal Fante people, and many additional ethnicities participate today. Kakaamotobe: Fancy Dress Carnival in Ghana explores the fascinating history, aesthetics, performance, and underlying messages of this masquerade with ties to other carnivalesque practices in the Black Atlantic. While Fancy Dress may engage with global cultures through some of its aesthetics, the practice is profoundly African. The utilization of elaborate costumes, masks, and brass bands expresses not a desire to imitate outside cultures, but rather the impulse of youth to adapt traditional culture to the contemporary environment. Courtnay Micots argues that the outward impression of folly belies the more serious refashioning of power, identity, and modernity in the community.
A New World of Labor
Author: Simon P. NewmanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245199
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor.
Religion, Law, Politics and the State in Africa
Author: Seth TweneboahPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000706737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity. It aims to explore legal, cultural and moral tensions created by overlapping loci of authority (state actors, traditional leaders and religious functionaries). It contends that religion can function as an impediment to Ghana’s secularity and also serve as an integral tool for realising the State’s legal ideals and meeting international human rights standards. Using three case studies – legal tensions, child witchcraft accusations and same-sex partnerships – the study illustrates the ways that the entangled and complicated connections between religion and law compound Ghana’s secular orientation. It suggests that legal pluralism is not a mere analytical framework for describing tensions, but ought to be seen as part of the solution. The study contributes to advancing knowledge in the area of the interrelationships between religion and law in contemporary African public domain. This book will be a valuable resource for those working in the areas of Law and Religion, Religious Studies, African Studies, Political Science, Legal Anthropology and Socio-legal Studies.