Writing And Colonialism In Northern Ghana

Author : Sean Hawkins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442658455

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This book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines – from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology – the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing and the particular world it belonged to. Focusing on the LoDagaa of northern Ghana and their relationship with British colonialism, Hawkins describes colonialism as an encounter between a world of experience – a world of knowledge, practice, and speech – and "the world on paper" – a world of writing, rules, and a linear concept of history. The various ways in which "the world on paper" affected the LoDagaa are examined thematically. The first four chapters explore how writing imposed a form of historical consciousness on different aspects of LoDagaa culture – identity, politics, and religion – that was alien to them. The second half of the book examines how both the British colonial state and its postcolonial successor, the Ghanian state, attempted to regulate indigenous forms of knowledge, gender relations, and social reckoning through courts. This ambitious and richly detailed book will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in African history, British colonialism, and cultural and postcolonial studies.

Author : Sean Hawkins,Associate Professor of History Sean Hawkins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802048722

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Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana by Sean Hawkins,Associate Professor of History Sean Hawkins Pdf

Drawing on the work of a variety of other fields and disciplines - from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology - the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing.

Author : Ibrahim Mahama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 9964924550

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A Colonial History of Northern Ghana by Ibrahim Mahama Pdf

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719062748

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Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana by Stephanie Newell Pdf

Considering the literary habits - production, reception, selection - in a colonial Ghana, this study provides empirical and statistical data of how colonial literature is absorbed - and coins the new term paracolonial to better describe the ebb and flow of influence and creativity. It shows how colonial West Africa (the Gold Coast) adapted to an imposed education system and developed its own indigenous cultural representation, far beyond the previously conceived limited vocabularly of simple mimicry.

Author : Jessica Cammaert
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803286801

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Undesirable Practices by Jessica Cammaert Pdf

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Queen's University, 2014.

Author : B. Talton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230102330

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Politics of Social Change in Ghana by B. Talton Pdf

With Ghana's colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defined and redefined themselves to protect their interests and compete politically and economically with neighbouring ethnic groups.

Author : Jonathan A. Draper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004130869

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Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa by Jonathan A. Draper Pdf

Literacy is essentially about the control of information, memory, and belief, and with colonialism in Southern Africa came the Bible and text-based literacy monitored by missionaries and colonial authorities. Old and new oral traditions, however, are beyond the control of empire and often carry the resistance, hopes, and dreams of colonized people. The essays in this volume recover aspects of Southern Africa's rich oral tradition. The authors, from disciplines such as anthropology, African literature, and biblical studies, delineate some of the contours of the indigenous knowledge systems which sustained resistance to colonialism and today provide resources for postapartheid society in Southern Africa. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Author : M. Christian Green,Faith Kabata,Fortune Sibanda
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781991201911

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Law, Religion, Health and Healing in Africa by M. Christian Green,Faith Kabata,Fortune Sibanda Pdf

The Covid‑19 pandemic was global in its spread and reach, as well as in its medical, social and economic effects. In many respects, the global effort to “flatten the curve” produced a flattening of experience around the world and a striking coincidence of similar experiences in countries the world over. The identity, simultaneity and uniformity of experience were also manifest in common concerns at the intersection of law and religion in many nations around the world, including Africa. The lockdowns and closure of religious worship centres – churches, mosques and religious organisations of all sorts – raised questions of freedom of religion and the related concern for freedom of assembly, along with concerns about the relation of religion to science and public health, religious channels of communication and religious provision of social services. After all, health, communications and social services are all areas in which African religious organisations play key roles. Potential tensions around these issues raised further considerations about the nature of religion-state relations, the status of religious authority and whether religious and state actors would work together or at odds in addressing the Covid‑19 pandemic.

Author : Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464949

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The Politics of Chieftaincy by Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch Pdf

Documents the profound societal changes that occurred in Accra, the capital city of the Gold Coast colony (modern Ghana), during the peak decades of British colonial rule, 1920-1950.

Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789462701441

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Missionary Spaces by Thomas Coomans Pdf

The ‘spatial turn’ of missionary places Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history and colonial architecture, this volume examines the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on specific architectural fragments, analysing the intersection of Christian edifices in colonial and traditional urban settings or unravelling the social understanding of missionary places, each chapter strives to understand the agency of missionary spaces. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and fields, this book aims to centre those missionary spaces by approaching them not merely as décor around and within which the missionary encounter was acted, but by making them part and parcel of it. Through its approach, Missionary Spaces provides a new paradigm for scrutinising the ‘spatial turn’ for missionary histories and contributes to the increased attention across the humanities to space, place, and location since the late 1990s. Space does not occur as an historical given, but as a social construction to be analysed, while at the same time having explanatory value of its own. This book focuses on Africa and the Chinese Region with contributions on Burundi, China, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Taiwan.

Author : Carola Lentz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748626847

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Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana by Carola Lentz Pdf

Drawing on two decades of research this social and political history of North-Western Ghana traces the creation of new ethnic and territorial boundaries, categories and forms of self-understanding, and represents a major contribution to debates on ethnicity, colonialism and the 'production of history'. It explores the creation and redefinition of ethnic distinctions and commonalities by African and European actors, showing that ethnicity's power derives from a contradiction: while ethnic identities purport to be non-negotiable, creating permanent bonds, stability and security, the boundaries of the communities created and the associated traits and practices are malleable and adaptable to specific interests and contexts.

Author : Alexis Bekyane Tengan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201024

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Of Life and Health by Alexis Bekyane Tengan Pdf

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions. Consisting of ethnographic descriptions and analyses of six Dagara cultic institutions, each of which deals with different aspects of sustaining and transmitting life, the volume gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system.

Author : Kwasi Konadu,Clifford C. Campbell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780822374961

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The Ghana Reader by Kwasi Konadu,Clifford C. Campbell Pdf

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 : Moses E. Ochonu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253011657

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Colonialism by Proxy by Moses E. Ochonu Pdf

Moses E. Ochonu explores a rare system of colonialism in Middle Belt Nigeria, where the British outsourced the business of the empire to Hausa-Fulani subcolonials because they considered the area too uncivilized for Indirect Rule. Ochonu reveals that the outsiders ruled with an iron fist and imagined themselves as bearers of Muslim civilization rather than carriers of the white man's burden. Stressing that this type of Indirect Rule violated its primary rationale, Colonialism by Proxy traces contemporary violent struggles to the legacy of the dynamics of power and the charged atmosphere of religious difference.

Author : Neal Ferris,Rodney Harrison,Michael V. Wilcox,Michael Vincent Wilcox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199696697

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Rethinking Colonial Pasts Through Archaeology by Neal Ferris,Rodney Harrison,Michael V. Wilcox,Michael Vincent Wilcox Pdf

This work explores the archaeologies of daily living left by the indigenous and other displaced peoples impacted by European colonial expansion over the last 600 years. Case studies from North America, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Ireland significantly revise conventional historical narratives of those interactions, their presumed impacts, and their ongoing relevance for the material, social, economic, and political lives and identities of contemporary indigenous and other peoples.