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Author : Eva Lewin Richter Meyerowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025016083
Author : Eva L. R. Meyerowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Akan (African people)
ISBN : 0608390356
Author : Kofi Nkansa-Kyeremateng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Akan (African people)
ISBN : UOM:39015059136773
Author : Kwasi Konadu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1558765808
This is a collection of primary sources with introductions.Paper back edition is an abridge version of the more scholarly hardcover edition for the general reader and for students.
Author : Kwasi Konadu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 1558765794
The Akans are an ethnic group in West Africa, predominantly Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. From the twelfth century on, Akans created numerous states based largely on gold mining and trading of cash crops. This brought wealth to numerous Akan states, such as Akwamu, which stretched all the way to modern Benin, and ultimately led to the rise of the best known Akan empire, the Empire of Ashanti. Throughout history, Akans were a highly educated group; notable Akan people in modern times include Kwame Nkrumah and Kofi Annan. This volume features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives. This collection is the first of its kind.
Author : Kwasi Konadu,Clifford C. Campbell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780822374961
Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections emphasize Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations. They also demonstrate that the path to fully understanding Ghana requires acknowledging its ethnic and cultural diversity and listening to its population's varied voices. Readers will encounter selections written by everyone from farmers, traders, and the clergy to intellectuals, politicians, musicians, and foreign travelers. With sources including historical documents, poems, treaties, articles, and fiction, The Ghana Reader conveys the multiple and intersecting histories of Ghana's development as a nation, its key contribution to the formation of the African diaspora, and its increasingly important role in the economy and politics of the twenty-first century.
Author : Rebecca Shumway
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580464789
The first book-length history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the Atlantic slave trade. Specifically, this volume provides a historical framework for the relationship between Ghana's coastal forts and castles and local African societies during this complex period.
Author : F. K. Buah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 0333659341
Author : Kwaku Nti
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253067944
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.
Author : Roger S. Gocking
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313061301
Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement challenged British rule, and in 1957 Ghana became independent. Independence brought its own challenges the most important of which was the inability to maintain political stability. Within the space of 24 years there were four military coups and the collapse of three republics. Ghana's Fourth Republic, established in 1993, has dealt with the legacy of instability inherited from the past as it moves towards a more stable future. A timeline, photographs, maps, and an appendix of biographies of notable figures in the history of Ghana are included. Students and adults alike will find this book to be highly effective in describing the often turbulent and tumultuous history of this country.
Author : Kofi Affrifah
Publisher : Ghana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055860350
In the eighteenth century part of modern day Ghana consisted of the three Akyem states, yet in almost all historical works on Ghana the Akyem are presented as a single homogeneous people. The author, Senior Lecturer of History at the University of Cape Coast examines the three groups and analyses their vital role in the history of Ghana in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Covering the period of 1699-1875, the study relies primarily - though not exclusively - on documentary evidence.
Author : David C. Conrad
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781604131642
Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
Author : Kwasi Konadu
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478005636
Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of shared values for his Ghanaian community. In Our Own Way in This Part of the World Kwasi Konadu centers Dᴐnkᴐ's life story and experiences in a communography of Dᴐnkᴐ's community and nation from the late nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth, which were shaped by historical forces from colonial Ghana's cocoa boom to decolonization and political and religious parochialism. Although Dᴐnkᴐ touched the lives of thousands of citizens and patients, neither he nor they appear in national or international archives covering the region. Yet his memory persists in his intellectual and healing legacy, and the story of his community offers a non-national, decolonized example of social organization structured around spiritual forces that serves as a powerful reminder of the importance for scholars to take their cues from the lived experiences and ideas of the people they study.
Author : Samuel Agyei-Mensah,Joseph Atsu Ayee,Abena D. Oduro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401787154
This book is the first compilation of its kind that brings together discussions of the evolution of scholarship in different branches of the Social Sciences. It presents a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text exploring the changing dynamics of the Social Sciences in Ghana, offering a broader perspective from which to view the evolution, theory, methods, substance and relevance of each of the Social Science disciplines and their multiple interfaces. The introduction and the conclusion are devoted to the theoretical, comparative and empirical debate over the Social Sciences from historical and analytical perspectives. Written by acknowledged experts, the 15 chapters span the following disciplines: Archaeology and Heritage Studies; History; Geography; Psychology; Sociology and Anthropology; Social Work; Economics; Political Science; International Affairs; Information Studies; Communication Studies; African Studies; Development Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies and Adult and Continuing Education. Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana offers sophisticated perspectives for comparing and appreciating the synergies, differences, trends and nuances among and between the Social Science disciplines in Ghana, in a holistic and scholarly manner.
Author : J. G. Platvoet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110821819
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.