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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Carola Lentz |
ISBN: | 0748624015 9780748624010 |
OCLC Number: | 552217929 |
Description: | XI, 346 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | List of maps and plates; Preface; Introduction; 1. The North-West in the nineteenth century; 2. The introduction of chieftaincy; 3. The discursive creation of ethnicity; 4. The Lawra Confederacy Native Authority; 5. Labour migration, home-ties and ethnicity; 6. 'Light over the Volta': the mission of the White Fathers; 7. Decolonisation and local government reform; 8. 'The time when politics came': party politics and local conflict; 9. Ethnic movements and special-interest politics; 10. The cultural work of ethnicity; Epilogue; List of abbreviations; Glossary; List of Divisional Chiefs of Lawra District; References; Index. |
Series Title: | International African library, 33 |
Responsibility: | Carola Lentz. |
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This is a detailed and comprehensive historical study of local politics in north-west Ghana during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Nandom... it is a very thorough and convincing case study [which] is of great importance to scholars interested in northern Ghana. -- African Affairs An important addition to the history of northern Ghana. -- Susan Drucker-Brown Africa This is a detailed and comprehensive historical study of local politics in north-west Ghana during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Nandom... it is a very thorough and convincing case study [which] is of great importance to scholars interested in northern Ghana. An important addition to the history of northern Ghana. Read more...

