The Asante world

by Abaka, Edmund K. Kwarteng, K. Osei

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

Summary

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 Asante political thought / Alex J. Wilson -- The tropology of Akan drum language : sounds and meanings from the Mamponghene's drum appellation / Peter Arthur, Philomena Yeboah and Darko Baffour -- Secular government and the Court of the Asante Ahemaa in the 21st century : an ethnographic account of Ejisu and Juaben traditional areas / Lydia Amoah & Charles Prempeh -- Epidemiology and local responses to diseases in Asante : a focus on Kumase since the beginning of the twentieth century / Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Wilhemina Joselyn Donkoh, Dennis Baffour Awuah -- Girl child education in Asante, 1901-1957 / Victor Asante Angbah.

"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, and Asante history"

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 340 Seiten : Illustrationen

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780815395362, 0815395361
oclc:on1248999115
LC Classification:DT507
Dewey Decimal:966.7/004963385

Introduction / Edmund Abaka et Kwame Osei Kwarteng -- The Ahafo-Asante relations, 1712-1935 / Kwame Osei Kwarteng et 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 et 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 indigeno…

Subjects

Achanti (Peuple d'Afrique) Achanti (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Histoire Africa -- Ashanti (Kingdom) Aschanti Ashanti (African people) Ashanti (African people) -- History Ashanti (Kingdom) Aufsatzsammlung History