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Author : Ivor Wilks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Northern Factor in Ashanti History written by Ivor Wilks and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benedikt Pontzen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901506
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Islam in a Zongo written by Benedikt Pontzen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in Ghana's Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people's lives in a zongo community.
Author : Edmund Abaka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351184059
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Asante World written by Edmund Abaka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.
Author : Ivor Wilks
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521379946
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Asante in the Nineteenth Century written by Ivor Wilks and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-09-29 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975, and reprinted with additional introductory material in 1989, this book provides an in-depth account of Asante history during the nineteenth century. The focus of the book is on the broad political development of Asante society, concentrating on the material factors which affected the decision making process during various administrations. This focus reflects the complex and sophisticated nature of the Asante social system, a system which had its basis in administrative unity and a core idea of nationhood. The text utilizes the abundant archival, printed and oral source materials available regarding the Asante, offering the reader a profound insight into the nature and structure of a remarkable society. This is a fascinating book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in African history.
Author : T. C. McCaskie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894326
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (943 download)
Download or read book State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante written by T. C. McCaskie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante.
Author : Kwamina B. Dickson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521071024
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Historical Geography of Ghana written by Kwamina B. Dickson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1969 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, this book presents a historical geography of Ghana from the earliest times onwards. It describes the people and their social organization, migrations, agriculture, artefacts, manufacturing and history. Numerous illustrative figures, appendices and a detailed bibliography are also provided. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Ghana and the development of historical geography.
Author : René A. Bravmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521201926
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa written by René A. Bravmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-05-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most writers have assumed that the spread of the Islamic faith has tended to weaken and undermine the foundations of traditional African society and culture. In this interesting and original study Professor Bravmann re-examines and refutes the assumption that the aniconic attitudes of Islam, especially the prohibition of representational imagery, have had a detrimental effect on the visual arts in the areas of West Africa influenced by this universalistic faith. The strength and flexibility of West African societies and their art forms is clearly revealed in the major part of this study, which is devoted to a detailed examination of the impact of Islam upon traditional art in the Cercle de Bondoukou and west central areas of Ghana. The text is illustrated with numerous photographs showing a variety of art forms and masquerades in the region.
Author : Eric Nketiah
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456789260
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Distance Forum written by Eric Nketiah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distance Forum Vol. 1 is acolleciton of academic writings across disciplines. It discusses some of the issues that engage the attention of contemporary scholars because of their implication for development. among the collections are: Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu's "Intermediate meand of transport (IMT): A Possible Solution to Rural Transportation Problems in Ghana?" W.J. Donkoh(PhD.) et al's "The Ipact of Colonial Labour Policy on Female Migrationfrom Northern Ghana to Asante" Emannuel Sarfo and Berlinda Mensah's "I'm not interested: A Case Study of Female Students Refusals from Men." Pauline Bassey Edet's "Predictive Contributions of Parental Educational Level, Family Type and School Influence on Drop out: Implicaitons for Counselling". Franklin Egyir's "The Impact of Colonial Exploitation on Africa in the Twenty-first century Revisited: A Young Scholar's Perspective" Nicholas imbeah's "Using Festivals to Promote Tourism: A case of Aboakyer and Bakatue in the Central Region of Ghana." These and many more are some of the write-ups in this book.
Author : Harvey M. Feinberg
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871697974
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Africans and Europeans in West Africa written by Harvey M. Feinberg and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I. M. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315311402
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Islam in Tropical Africa written by I. M. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980, this second edition of Islam in Tropical Africa presents specialist studies of the history and sociology of Muslim communities in Africa south of the Sahara. The studies cover an extensive and range of time and place, and include consideration of particular aspects of Muslim belief and practice in regions such as Senegal and Somalia. The second edition includes an updated introduction which draws attention to the ways in which differently organized traditional cultures and social systems had reacted and adapted to Muslim influence in the field of politics, law and ritual in the second half of the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to those studying Islam, African studies and ethnography.
Author : Bassey Andah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134679491
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Africa written by Bassey Andah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an 2xtraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this continent and to upset the picture inferred from historic written records. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, let alone its future.
Author : E. Ann McDougall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317980905
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003) written by E. Ann McDougall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It speaks to his relationship with researchers at home and abroad as mentor, colleague and provocateur; in one section, several authors reflect on those dynamics in terms of personal and professional development. Levtzion’s contemporaries also speak of interactions with him (and his life-long companion, wife Tirza) in the 1950s and 1960s; we see in these writings the birth of West African historical studies. Levtzion’s arrival as Israeli graduate-student in Nkrumah’s Egyptian-leaning Ghana, and the debate over what ‘African Studies’ should mean in an environment that included the personal intervention of W.E.B. Du Bois, are stories told for the first time. Most poignant is the account of Levtzion’s commitment to building African Studies, complete with emphasis on Islam, in the heart of the Jewish state at The Hebrew University. His never-ending defence of the program reflected his determination to be both ‘engaged historian’ and ‘engaged Israeli’ – a legacy he chose for himself. Finally, an ‘Epilogue’ to the original publication shows how one aspect this legacy, Levtzion’s growing preoccupation with the ‘public sphere in Muslim societies’, has become even more relevant in ‘post-Arab Spring’ Africa and the Middle East. This book was published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.
Author : Tapan Prasad Biswal
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788172110291
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Ghana, Political and Constitutional Developments written by Tapan Prasad Biswal and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana, the torch bearer of African Independence from the yoke of colonial bondage, has been pushed to the background from its earlier pre-eminent position in international as well as African affairs. Since independence, Ghana has experienced diverse forms of Government and has almost run out of models for governing herself. Instead of providing leadership to the underdeveloped countries of Africa, Ghana is busy in its quest for evolving a stable and workable political system. In its effort to evolve a stable political system and an operational constitution capable of providing steady economic progress and social upliftment. Ghana has experimented west-minister style parliamentary system, a Single Party Republic and many military regimes following coups and counter coups. Like many of the developing states of Africa, Ghana has been plagued with post-independence political instability. Civilians as well as military governments have been installed with initial enthusiasm but so far none has been able to solve the pressing problems. In fact the quest for a permanent solution to what appears a persistent governmental crisis, has invited many coups and counter coups. It addresses and analyses the maladies that has afflicted the Ghanaian body politic.
Author : John Fage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797264
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book A History of Africa written by John Fage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Africa is a thorough narrative history of the continent from its beginnings to the twenty-first century. Long established at the forefront of African Studies, this book addresses the events of the 1990s and beyond. The issues discussed include: post-apartheid South Africa the prospects for democratization in Africa at the beginning of the new millennium developments in Muslim North Africa including the threat of Islamic fundamentalism economic and social developments including the devastating impact of Third World debt and the provision of debt relief cultural, environmental and gender issues in Modern Africa.
Author : Jean Allman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253111838
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Tongnaab written by Jean Allman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445669
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Themes in West Africa’s History written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The first part of the book examines paths to a West African past, including perspectives from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two probes environment, society, and agency and historical change through essays on the slave trade, social inequality, religious interaction, poverty, disease, and urbanization. Part three sheds light on contemporary West Africa in exploring how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. Themes in West Africa’s History represents a range of intellectual views and interpretations from leading scholars on West Africa’s history. It will appeal to college undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the way it draws on different disciplines and expertise to bring together key themes in West Africa’s history, from prehistory to the present.
Author : Barbara E. Frank
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025305897X
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Griot Potters of the Folona written by Barbara E. Frank and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Griot Potters of the Folona reconstructs the past of a particular group of West African women potters using evidence found in their artistry and techniques. The potters of the Folona region of southeastern Mali serve a diverse clientele and firing thousands of pots weekly during the height of the dry season. Although they identify themselves as Mande, the unique styles and types of objects the Folona women make, and more importantly, the way they form and fire them, are fundamentally different from Mande potters to the north and west. Through a brilliant comparative analysis of pottery production methods across the region, especially how the pots are formed and the way the techniques are taught by mothers to daughters, Barbara Frank concludes that the mothers of the potters of the Folona very likely came from the south and east, marrying Mande griots (West African leatherworkers who are better known as storytellers or musicians), as they made their way south in search of clientele as early as the 14th or 15th century CE. While the women may have nominally given up their mothers' identities through marriage, over the generations the potters preserved their maternal heritage through their technological style, passing this knowledge on to their daughters, and thus transforming the very nature of what it means to be a Mande griot. This is a story of resilience and the continuity of cultural heritage in the hands of women.
