Author: Historical Society of GhanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana Vol XVI. 2 New Series
Author: Historical Society of GhanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
Author: Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
Author: Ghana
Author: R. Bagulo BeningPublisher: Ghana University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Boundary studies in Ghana have focused primarily on the evolution and impact of the international boundaries, to the complete neglect of internal administrative divides. Filling the gap, this comprehensive study reconstructs the originating circumstances of the administrative regions of Ghana: the Gold Coast Colony, the Colony of Ashanti and the Protectorate of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. It analyses the evolution and impact of the internal colonial and regional boundaries as barriers to the movement of people, goods, ideas and capital, and particularly the effects on the border populations. The five parts cover evolution and problems of the internal colonial boundaries 1874-1951; evolution and problems of the internal colonial boundaries 1951-1997; internal colonial boundaries and amalgamation; regionalism, federalism and the emergence of the Unitary State; and the problem of unity and the creation of regions.
Social History of Timbuktu
Author: Elias N. SaadPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521246032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Originally published in 1983, this book deals with the precolonial history of the Islamic West African city of Timbuktu. The book traces the fortunes of this fabled city from its origins in the twelfth century, and more especially from around 1400 onwards, to the French conquest in the late nineteenth century. The study rests upon a comprehensive utilisation of the Timbuktu sources, including the well-known chronicles or tarikhs of Timbuktu. The author focuses on the role of scholars and, in so doing, he provides a fresh study of a learned community in sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, the study shows that the scholars occupied a position of leadership and authority in the social structure of the city. Hence, in providing fuller understanding of the role of scholars and their status as 'notables', the work makes it possible to understand the enigma which has surrounded this extraordinary city throughout its history. It contributes an important perspective for historians of Africa, the Middle East and Islam.
Perspectives on African Witchcraft
Author: Mariano PavanelloPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315439905
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, the interrelations with religion and medicine, and the theoretical frameworks employed to explain the nature of modern African witchcraft representations.
Sharing the Burden of Sickness
Author: Jonathan RobertsPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253057914
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
A medical history of Accra that accounts for plural medical traditions and multiple notions of health and healing.
History of Ukwa/Ngwa People and Aba Town: Once Upon a Time
Author: Eze Obinna Onwuma LL.MPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665504307
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The history of Ukwa/Ngwa people Volume 1 represents the ultimate in-depth data of Ukwa/Ngwa people long walk to freedom nay, to capture political power in their political space. A factual inside account of the events and circumstances which had made this journey a tortuous one and brought it to scorn and despise mostly in its citadel commercial town of Aba. This is rendered in a vivid detail by the author blazing a trail which would, sooner or later, provoke reactions conveying confirmation, disputation, clarification or expansion of information as contained herein. In the potpourri of endless books written on Ukwa/Ngwa history, this book is no doubt unique in its most illuminating treatment of privileged information recapturing the historical genesis of the Ukwa/Ngwa origin, long trek to Aba and its attendant development which had elicited disproportionate feelings among sojourners.
Self and Community in a Changing World
Author: D. A. MasoloPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253004527
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Revisiting African philosophy's classic questions, D. A. Masolo advances understandings of what it means to be human -- whether of African or other origin. Masolo reframes indigenous knowledge as diversity: How are we to understand the place and structure of consciousness? How does the everyday color the world we know? Where are the boundaries between self and other, universal and particular, and individual and community? From here, he takes a dramatic turn toward Africa's current political situation and considers why individual rights and freedoms have not been recognized, respected, demanded, or enforced. Masolo offers solutions for containing socially destructive conduct and antisocial tendencies by engaging community. His unique thinking about community and the role of the individual extends African philosophy in new, global directions.
Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana
Author: Rhoda HowardPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000856062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana (1978) examines Ghana’s integration into the world economic system, and the effects which such integration had on its development. The time period covered coincides both with the institution of formal political control in Ghana, and with the use of that control to promote Ghana’s development as a peripheral capitalist nation, as a supplier of primary agricultural and mineral products and as a buyer of manufactured goods. 1939 is taken as the cut-off for this book as it ends the classical colonial period.