Murder in the Palace at Kibi
Author | : H. A. Nuamah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Akan (African people) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : H. A. Nuamah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Akan (African people) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bonny Ibhawoh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199664846 |
This is a vital study of the motivations of the British Imperial Appeal Courts and the tensions between the demands of imperial law and justice and those of African law and custom. Examining the central role of the Privy Council and the Courts, it reveals the impact of the colonized peoples in shaping the processes and outcomes of imperial justice.
Author | : Bruce Gilley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1684512174 |
"The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empires studies Sir Alan Burns' career and his arguments in defense of European colonialism. Bruce Gilley describes Burns' intellectual and policy battles with opponents of colonialism and his efforts to slow the decolonization process"--
Author | : Richard Rathbone |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300055047 |
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.
Author | : Noriko T. Reider |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2016-10-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1607324903 |
In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents seven oni stories from medieval Japan in full and translated for an English-speaking audience. Reider, concordant with many scholars of Japanese cultural studies, argues that to study oni is to study humanity. These tales are from an era in which many new oni stories appeared for the purpose of both entertainment and moral/religious edification and for which oni were particularly important, as they were perceived to be living entities. They reflect not only the worldview of medieval Japan but also themes that inform twenty-first-century Japanese pop and vernacular culture, including literature, manga, film, and anime. With each translation, Reider includes an introductory essay exploring the historical and cultural importance of the characters and oni manifestations within this period. Offering new insights into and interpretations of not only the stories therein but also the entire genre of Japanese ghost stories, Seven Demon Stories is a valuable companion to Reider’s 2010 volume Japanese Demon Lore. It will be of significant value to folklore scholars as well as students of Japanese culture.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013-07-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0231164211 |
Classic setsuwa tales describing Buddhism's emergence in eighth-century Japan.
Author | : Ga ́bor A ́goston |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2010-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438110251 |
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference to the empire that once encompassed large parts of the modern-day Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe.