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Shaping tradition
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ISBN: 9004152431 9789004152434 9786611400163 1281400165 9047410238 9789047410232 9781281400161 6611400168 Year: 2006 Publisher: Leiden Boston [Mass.] Brill

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Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in the face of economic transformation. The book charts this colonial program, from the creation of "native states" in the early twentieth century to an ambitious agricultural mechanisation scheme in the late 1940s. In its challenge to current writing on civil society, the study offers an important contribution to African history and development studies.

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Third World: economic development problems --- Community organization --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Ghana --- Civil society --- Community development --- History --- Economic conditions --- Regional development --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Chia-na --- Gana --- Republic of Ghana --- Ganah --- Government of Ghana --- Rèpublica du Gana --- Qana --- Qana Respublikası --- Gana ka Fasojamana --- Republik Ghana --- Гана --- Gana Respublikaḣy --- Hana (Ghana) --- Рэспубліка Гана --- Rėspublika Hana --- Република Гана --- Republika Gana --- Ghanská republika --- Gweriniaeth Ghana --- Gáana --- Ghana Vabariik --- Γκάνα --- Gkana --- Δημοκρατία της Γκάνας --- Dēmokratia tēs Gkanas --- República de Ghana --- Ganao --- Ghanako Errepublika --- Tjóðveldið Gana --- République du Ghana --- Poblacht Ghána --- Yn Ghaney --- Ghaney --- Pobblaght ny Ganey --- Poblachd Ghàna --- Ганмудин Орн --- Ganmudin Orn --- 가나 --- 가나 공화국 --- Gana Konghwaguk --- Ochíchìíwú Ghana --- Ганæ --- Ganæ --- Республикæ Ганæ --- Respublikæ Ganæ --- IGana --- Repubblica del Ghana --- גאנה --- רפובליקת גאנה --- Republiḳat Ganah --- ガーナ --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Social contract --- Togoland (British) --- Gold Coast --- Ashanti --- Northern Territories of the Gold Coast --- Developing countries: economic development problems


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Closing the books : Governor Edward Carstensen on Danish Guinea, 1842-50
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ISBN: 9988860285 9789988860288 9789988647391 9789988860226 9988647395 9988647603 9789988647605 9789988647650 9789988647605 9988647654 1283005220 9786613005229 9988647883 998864776X 9781283005227 9789988647889 9789988647766 Year: 2010 Publisher: Legon, Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Pub.,

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Sitting on the terrace of the royal plantation Frederiks gave, his favourite retreat, Governor Edward Carstensen came to see the inevitable: Denmark had to give up her ìpossessionsî in Africa. As fate would have it, he came to be the instrument by which two centuries of Danish involvement on the Gold Coast was terminated, thereby making way for the emergence of the colonial system that developed there. After the abolition of the slave trade, Denmark had struggled to find ways and means to legitimate her continued stay at the Coast. At an early stage the Danes initiated a number of attempts to establish experimental plantations to cultivate export crops such as cotton, coffee and sugar. But a transition from slave trade to legitimate products required stability and peace, and a need for control, which the rather limited Danish presence was not able to maintain. Closing the Books comprises a compilation of the official reports that the last Danish Governor sent home during his term of office at the Gold Coast. The reports reflect his personal views regarding the economic and political situations there, as well as his ideas on the civilization of Africa.


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Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana
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ISBN: 144387132X 1443865362 1322325235 9781443871327 9781443865364 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African peoples in addressing their environmental problems. However, there is enough evidence that neither modern (scientific) nor indigenous epistemologies and modes of addressing current ecological problems ar...

Ethnicity and the making of history in northern Ghana
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ISBN: 0748652965 1280953209 9786610953202 0748626840 9780748626847 9780748652969 9781280953200 6610953201 9780748624010 0748624015 067402186X 9780674021860 Year: 2006 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute

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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 o

The pen-pictures of modern Africans and African celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison
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ISBN: 1280867159 9786610867158 1429427418 9047406346 1433707624 9781429427418 9789004140974 9004140972 9781433707629 9004140972 9781280867156 6610867151 9789047406341 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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In the late 1920s the Gold Coast businessman Charles Francis Hutchison published the first volume of his book titled The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities. The book contains 162 biographical sketches of Ghanaians that were important in business, in society and the church, in government, and in (nationalist) politics, both from Hutchison's own time and from the nineteenth century. The text of the biographies is in blank verse, and portrait photographs accompany most sketches. Additional photographs of houses and special events, and added biographical information in the form of lists of famous deceased people complete the book. The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast, modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. In effect, The Pen-Pictures is an important socio-historical document. The format, the style of presentation, the intimacy of many of the life histories, the overview offered of non-European Gold Coast society in the 1920s, they all allow for multiple analyses by historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and scholars of language and literature. This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text about an important phase in Ghanaian history. The added introduction and annotation offer a context hitherto unavailable to the scholar and general reader.


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Nkyin-kyin
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ISBN: 9401206732 1441603565 9781441603562 9789401206730 9042025174 9789042025172 9042025174 9789042025172 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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This collection brings together essays written over a thirty-five year period. They reflect James Gibbs’s position vis-à-vis the Ghanaian theatre as sometimes a remote onlooker, sometimes an enthusiastic participant observer, deeply involved in issues of perception and influence in a society moving through colonialism to nationalism, independence and beyond. The main body of the book is divided into four sections. The first, “Outsiders and Activists,” looks at theatre for community development during the late 1940's, some connections between drama and film, and the astonishing involvement in Ghanaian performance culture of the Haitian poet and playwright Felix Morisseau–Leroy. The second section, “Intercultural Encounters,” examines ways in which classic Greek drama has been used by producers and writers in West Africa, with special reference to Victor Yankah, Kobina Sekyi (Ghana’s first published playwright), and the Nigerian Femi Osofisan. Section Three, “Plays and Playwrights,” concentrates on Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Joe de Graft. This section uncovers issues of documentation and achievement that draw attention to the need for investment in organising resources for writing Ghana’s theatre history. The volume draws to a close with personal accounts of touring student productions in the 1960's (with due attention to the influence of Bertolt Brecht) and of involvement in a British film production on location. The book closes with an updated complete bibliography of Ghana’s chief dramatist, Efua Sutherland.


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It happened in Ghana : a historical romance, 1824-1971
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ISBN: 1283027879 9786613027870 9988647867 9988647522 9988647913 9789988647865 9789988647261 9988647263 9781283027878 6613027871 9789988647520 9789988647919 Year: 2007 Publisher: Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Pub & Traders,

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It Happened in Ghana carries a positive message. Conceived as a literary work, it demonstrates that racial prejudice based on skin colour is not a pervasive and unalterable human condition. The principal characters who are both Black and White are embroiled in various encounters, notably wars, slave trade, colonialism and post colonial reconstruction. Regardless of their skin colour and cultural differences, they make friends or fall in love secretly during these encounters. When they are forced to part company by the cessation of hostilities or whatever brought them together, they serve in va

Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural thought and policies
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ISBN: 128022665X 9786610226658 0203505697 9780203505694 0415948339 6610226652 9780415948333 0415948339 9781134000180 9781134000135 9781134000173 9780415649537 1134000170 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Routledge

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This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-centered paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. It also argues for the relevance of his theories and politics in today's Africa.


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The political economy of the interior Gold Coast
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ISBN: 0739187864 9780739187869 9780739187852 0739187856 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham

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This book analyzes the Asante transition to legitimate commerce in the nineteenth century and highlights the political and economic relationships of the Asante state with surrounding African groups and European traders.


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Historical dictionary of Ghana
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ISBN: 0810875004 9780810875005 9780810872424 0810872420 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham

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This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Ghana covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Ghana.

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