The Lions Of Dagbon
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Author | : Martin Staniland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521101431 |
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The political conflict that has taken the most violent form and proved costliest in human lives in Ghana in the last half century has been a chieftaincy dispute in the northern kingdom of Dagomba, known as the Yendi skin dispute. The major loss of life took puce in 1969 but the dispute has continued to trouble Ghanaian politics and has affected the careers of national leaders under both civilian and military regimes. It is one of the most complex, explosive and intractable disputes in a country noted for conflicts over chieftaincy. Mr Staniland examines the political history of Dagomba, one of the most important pre-colonial states in what is now Ghana, from its partition between the British and the Germans in 1899. He analyses the attitudes and policies of successive governments towards chieftaincy and `traditionalism', and the effects which outside control has had on dynastic politics.
Author | : Wyatt MacGaffey |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813933870 |
Download Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana. Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers shows how the history commonly assumed by scholars has been shaped by the prejudices of colonial anthropology, the needs of British indirect rule, and local political agency. The book demonstrates, too, how political agency has shaped the kinship system. MacGaffey traces the evolution of chieftaincy as the sources of power changed and as land ceased to be simply the living space of the dependents of a chief and became a commodity and a resource for development. The internal violence in Dagbon that has been a topic of national and international concern since 2002 is shown to be a product of the interwoven values of tradition, modern Ghanaian politics, modern education, and economic opportunism.
Author | : Jean Allman |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2005-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253111838 |
Download Tongnaab Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.
Author | : Jeffrey W. Paller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316513300 |
Download Democracy in Ghana Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A detailed account of politics in Ghana's urban neighborhoods, providing a new way to understand African democracy and development.
Author | : Nathaniel K. Powell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108800521 |
Download France's Wars in Chad Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examining the continuous French military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France's successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of François Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to intervene. In covering the subsequent French efforts to counter Libyan ambitions and the rise to power of Hissène Habré, one of postcolonial Africa's most brutal dictators, Nathaniel K. Powell demonstrates that French strategies aiming to prevent the collapse of authoritarian regimes had the opposite effect, exacerbating violent conflicts and foreign interventions in Chad and further afield. Based on extensive archival research to trace the causes, course, and impact of French interventions in Chad, this study offers insights and lessons for current interveners - including France - fighting a 'war on terrorism' in the Sahel whose strategies and impact parallel those of France in the 1960s–1980s.
Author | : Elijah Doro |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100909839X |
Download Plunder for Profit Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability"--
Author | : Rhiannon Stephens |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107244994 |
Download A History of African Motherhood Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut across patrilineal and cultural-linguistic divides. The importance of motherhood as an ideology and a social institution meant that in chiefdoms and kingdoms queen mothers were powerful officials who legitimated the power of kings. This was the case in Buganda, the many kingdoms of Busoga, and the polities of Bugwere. By taking a long-term perspective from c.700 to 1900 CE and using an interdisciplinary approach - drawing on historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and oral traditions and literature, as well as archival sources - this book shows the durability, mutability and complexity of ideologies of motherhood in this region.
Author | : Jon Lewis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1984-11-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521263122 |
Download Industrialisation and Trade Union Organization in South Africa, 1924-1955 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The history of the TLC from its origins in the 1920s to its demise in the 1950s.
Author | : Elisabeth McMahon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107025826 |
Download Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island of Pemba.
Author | : Declan Quigley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2020-05-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000183416 |
Download The Character of Kingship Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Why has monarchy been such a prevalent institution throughout history and in such a diverse range of societies? Kingship is at the heart of both ritual and politics and has major implications for the theory of social and cultural anthropology. Yet, despite the contemporary fascination with royalty, anthropologists have sorely neglected the subject in recent decades. This book combines a strong theoretical argument with a wealth of ethnography from kingships in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Quigley gives a timely and much-needed overview of the anthropology of kingship and a crucial reassessment of the contributions of Frazer and Hocart to debates about the nature and function of royal ritual. From diverse fieldwork sites, a number of eminent anthropologists demonstrate how ritual and power intertwine to produce a series of variations around myth, tragedy and historical realities. However, underneath this diversity, two common themes invariably emerge: the attempt to portray kingship as timeless and perfect, and the dual nature of the king as sacred being and scapegoat.