A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti from the Earliest Times to the Commencement of the Twentieth Century
| Author | : William Walton Claridge |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 694 |
| Release | : 1915 |
| Genre | : Ashanti |
| ISBN | : |
A History Of The Gold Coast And Ashanti From The Earliest Times To The Commencement Of The Twentieth Century
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The Making of an African King
| Author | : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2019-01-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0761870717 |
In this edition of The Making of an African King: Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle Among the Ᾱwutu (Effutu) of Ghana, Revised & Updated, every chapter is updated, taking into account the 2015 Ghana Supreme Court ruling on the internecine kingship struggle among the Ᾱwutu (Effutu) of Simpa (Winneba). The patrilineal Otuano Royal Family sued the Acquah faction and proponents of matrilineal succession in 1976, seeking confirmation of their inalienable right as the sole kingmakers of Simpa, and also for the court to place perpetual injunction on the Acquahs never to interfere in the royal affairs of Simpa. During the intervening decades from 1976-2015, Simpa witnessed a spate of intermittent political violence, especially the months leading to their annual Nyantɔr (aboakyir) Festival, all aimed at preventing the king from propitiating the ancestors and deities of Simpa led by Pɛnkyae Otu. With the Supreme Court ruling, people now have the opportunity to read the judgment in its entirety and make up their own minds. What is actually fascinating about the whole internecine royal struggle is, that we have a situation whereby a matrilineal political system practiced by the Akan is displacing a long-established patrilineal system of descent traditionally practiced by the Guan speaking people of Simpa. Such an idea would be unheard of in the West, but this is what is happening among the Ᾱwutu (Effutu) of Simpa (Winneba) socio-culturally and politically. Indeed, it shows how unique and transformative the Akan ābusua (a mother and her children) system is all about.
Fusion Foodways of Africa's Gold Coast in the Atlantic Era
| Author | : James D. La Fleur |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2012-08-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004224122 |
This volume describes the agricultural and cultural history of the Gold Coast (now, Ghana) in the Atlantic era, exploring the historical significance of new food crops and culinary techniques from the Americas, Asia and elsewhere in Africa to the farmers who produced them and to everybody who ate.
The History of Education in Ghana
| Author | : C.K. Graham |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136268197 |
Published in the year 1971, The History of Education in Ghana is a valuable contribution to the field of History.
Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960: Volume 5, A Bibliographic Guide to Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa
| Author | : L. H. Gann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521078597 |
A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.
The Asante World
| Author | : Edmund Abaka |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2021-05-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351184059 |
The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.
Peter Thonning and Denmark's Guinea Commission
| Author | : Daniel Hopkins |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 760 |
| Release | : 2012-12-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004228683 |
The rich archival record of Denmark's 19th century African colonial undertakings, and particularly the work of the natural historian and colonial administrator Peter Thonning of the Guinea Commission, opens fresh perspectives on the broader history and geography of European colonialism.
Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana
| Author | : Kwame Essien |
| Publisher | : MSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2016-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1628952776 |
Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana is a fresh approach, challenging both pre-existing and established notions of the African Diaspora by engaging new regions, conceptualizations, and articulations that move the field forward. This book examines the untold story of freed slaves from Brazil who thrived socially, culturally, and economically despite the challenges they encountered after they settled in Ghana. Kwame Essien goes beyond the one-dimensional approach that only focuses on British abolitionists’ funding of freed slaves’ resettlements in Africa. The new interpretation of reverse migrations examines the paradox of freedom in discussing how emancipated Brazilian-Africans came under threat from British colonial officials who introduced stringent land ordinances that deprived the freed Brazilian- Africans from owning land, particularly “Brazilian land.” Essien considers anew contention between the returnees and other entities that were simultaneously vying for control over social, political, commercial, and religious spaces in Accra and tackles the fluidity of memory and how it continues to shape Ghana’s history. The ongoing search for lost connections with the support of the Brazilian government—inspiring multiple generations of Tabom (offspring of the returnees) to travel across the Atlantic and back, especially in the last decade—illustrates the unending nature of the transatlantic diaspora journey and its impacts.
Critique of Political Decolonization
| Author | : Bernard Forjwuor |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2023-05-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0198871864 |
What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, albeit mutated and evolved? In Critique of Political Decolonization, Bernard Forjwuor challenges what, in normative scholarship, has become a persistent conflation of two different concepts: political decolonization and political independence. This scholarly volume is an antinormative and critical refutation of the decolonial accomplishment of political independence or self-determination in Ghana. He argues that political independence is insufficiently a decolonial claim because it is framed within the context of a country, where a permanent colonial settlement was never deemed necessary for the consolidation of future colonial political obligations. So, while territorial dissolution was politically engineered by Ghanaians, the colonial merely reconstitutes itself in different legal and ideological forms. Forjwuor offers new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual approaches to engaging the questions of colonialism, political independence, political decolonization, justice, and freedom, and constructs multiple conceptual bridges between traditional disciplinary fields of inquiry including politics, history, law, African studies, economic history, critical theory, and philosophy and political theory. Using the Ghanaian experience as a rich case study, Forjwuor rethinks what colonialism and decolonization mean, and asserts that decolonization is primarily a question of justice.
Dividing the spoils
| Author | : Henrietta Lidchi |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2020-09-29 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1526139227 |
At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the motivations and circumstances whereby collections were appropriated and acquired during colonial military service. Combining approaches from the fields of material anthropology, imperial and military history, this book argues for a deeper examination of these collections within a range of intercultural histories that include alliance, diplomacy, curiosity and enquiry, as well as expropriation and cultural hegemony. As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, Dividing the Spoils explores how the amassing of objects was understood and governed in British military culture, and considers how objects functioned in museum collections thereafter, suggesting new avenues for sustained investigation in a controversial, contested field.
