The Asante world

by Abaka, Edmund Kwarteng, K. Osei, (Kwame Osei)

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"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." 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…

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Full title :The Asante world / edited by Edmund Abaka and Kwame Osei Kwarteng.

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Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

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Description:xiii, 340 pages : : illustrations (black and white) ; : 26 cm.

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ISBN:9780815395362, 0815395361
oclc:on1224583160
LC Classification:DT507
Dewey Decimal:966.7/004963385

Introduction / Edmund Abaka & Kwame Osei Kwarteng -- The Ahafo-Asante relations, 1712-1935 / Kwame Osei Kwarteng & Kwame Adum-Kyeremeh -- The Asante Factor in the political re-orientation of Northern Ghana : a historical evaluation of the Bassari-Dagomba relations, 1745-1876 / Limpu I. Digbun -- Asante Imperium expansion : imperial outlook and construction of empire / Eugenia Anderson -- Contending empires : Asante and Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries / Ezekiel Walker -- Historical reconstruction of an Asante ancillary state : origin, migration and settlement of Sekyere Kwamang / Osei Prempeh -- Dupuis' discourse on Asante in the 19th century : an evaluation of the Islamic themes in the Journal of Residence in Ashantee (1824) / Jibrail Bin Yusuf -- Why Islam did not make a significant impact on Asante during the18th and 19th centuries / Jibrail Bin Yusuf & Victoria Agyare-Appiah

Red gold : kola nuts, the kola nut trade and the political economy of Asante / Edmund Abaka -- An indigenous innovative touch : origin and significance of the Kente cloth in Asante culture / Frimpong Nana Asamoah -- Adinkra symbols and proverbs as tools for elucidating indigenous A…

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