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Ethnicity In Ghana
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Ethnicity In Ghana written by NA NA and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Science categories.
Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed much to indigenous ways of seeing. The contributors explore the role of European administrators and recruitment officers as well as African cultural brokers in shaping new identities. The interaction of gender and ethnic consciousness is explicitly addressed. The volume also examines the formulation of the national question in Ghana today - in debates over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.
Ethnicity Conflicts And Consensus In Ghana
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Author : Steve Tonah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Ethnicity Conflicts And Consensus In Ghana written by Steve Tonah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Ethnic conflict categories.
Ethnicity In Ghana
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2000-08-04
Ethnicity In Ghana written by NA NA and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-04 with Science categories.
Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed much to indigenous ways of seeing. The contributors explore the role of European administrators and recruitment officers as well as African cultural brokers in shaping new identities. The interaction of gender and ethnic consciousness is explicitly addressed. The volume also examines the formulation of the national question in Ghana today - in debates over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.
The People Of Ghana
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Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Press
Release Date : 2017-07-01
The People Of Ghana written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and has been published by New Africa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-01 with Social Science categories.
This is a general survey of Ghana and its people. Subjects covered include the country's regions and their people; Ghana's identity as a nation and how it faced challenges to national unity during the struggle for independence; the nature of the post-colonial state; the asymmetrical relationship between the north and the south rooted in the colonial era, a structural imbalance which continues to have a negative impact on the wellbeing of northerners and which could perpetuate inequalities between the two parts of the country; Ghana's place in the Pan-African world because of the leadership provided by the country's first prime minister – later president – Kwame Nkrumah; and its success in forging unity on the anvil of diversity. Among the people the author has covered include an African American community whose members were given some land in the Volta Region in the eastern part of the country for permanent settlement of the descendants of African slaves who want to return to the motherland. He describes it as a distinct ethnic group with the same attributes indigenous groups have and which they use to identify themselves as ethnic entities. The community has acquired an identity of its own and qualifies as an ethnic group because its members have a common history, language and culture as diasporans who lost their African identity under white domination in the United States and were forced to adopt a Euro-American culture and the English language. The author was closely associated with the founders of the African American community in Ghana, known as Fihankra, when he was a student in the United States and has written about them in some of his works including his autobiography, “My Life as an African.” Members of the general public and students may find this work to be useful if they want to learn some facts about Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence.
Ethnicity And The Making Of History In Northern Ghana
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Author : Carola Lentz
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-04
Ethnicity And The Making Of History In Northern Ghana written by Carola Lentz and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-04 with History categories.
Drawing on two decades of research this social and political history of North-Western Ghana traces the creation of new ethnic and territorial boundaries, categories and forms of self-understanding, and represents a major contribution to debates on ethnicity, colonialism and the 'production of history'. It explores the creation and redefinition of ethnic distinctions and commonalities by African and European actors, showing that ethnicity's power derives from a contradiction: while ethnic identities purport to be non-negotiable, creating permanent bonds, stability and security, the boundaries of the communities created and the associated traits and practices are malleable and adaptable to specific interests and contexts.
Ethnicity In Ghana
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Ethnicity In Ghana written by NA NA and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Science categories.
Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed much to indigenous ways of seeing. The contributors explore the role of European administrators and recruitment officers as well as African cultural brokers in shaping new identities. The interaction of gender and ethnic consciousness is explicitly addressed. The volume also examines the formulation of the national question in Ghana today - in debates over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.
Electoral Politics And Africa S Urban Transition
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Author : Noah L. Nathan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Electoral Politics And Africa S Urban Transition written by Noah L. Nathan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Explores the political impacts of ethnic diversity and the growth of the middle class in urban Africa.
Ethnicity And Making Of History In Northern Ghana
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Ethnicity And Making Of History In Northern Ghana written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Ethnicity And Wage Determination In Ghana
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Author : Abigail Barr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Ethnicity And Wage Determination In Ghana written by Abigail Barr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Discriminacion racial - Ghana categories.
People Of The Zongo
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Author : Enid Schildkrout
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-17
People Of The Zongo written by Enid Schildkrout and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-17 with Philosophy categories.
Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.
