Africa's Urban Past
Africa's Urban Past

Author: David Anderson

Publisher: James Currey Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0852557612

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A selection of papers first delivered at the conference on Africa's Urban Past, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996.

The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of Ashanti
The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of Ashanti

Author: K. A. Busia

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1351030809

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Originally published in 1951, this book provides an account of the traditional status and functions of the Asanti chief. The effects of British administration on the powers of the chief and his council are described, as are the tensions which the traditional political organization was subjected to by the requirements of modern administration. The author of this book was himself an Ashanti and was the first West African tobe appointed to the Colonial Adminstrative Service.

Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana
Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana

Author: Kwaku Nti

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2024-01-02

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0253067936

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The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region experienced creeping British imperialism and incorporation into the British Gold Coast colony. Drawing on a wealth of Ghanian archival sources, historian Kwaku Nti shows how many aspects of traditional maritime daily life—customary ritual performances, fishing, and concepts of ownership, and land—served as a means of resistance and allowed residents to contest and influence the socio-political transformations of the era. Nti explored how the Ebusua (female) and Asafo (male) local social groups, especially in Cape Coast, became bastions of indigenous identity and traditions during British colonial rule, while at the same time functioning as focal points for demanding a share of emerging economic opportunities. A convincing demonstration of the power of the indigenous everyday life to complicate the reach of empire, Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana reveals a fuller history of West African coastal communities.

Pentecostal Exorcism
Pentecostal Exorcism

Author: Opoku Onyinah

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 9004397108

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"Witchcraft" and exorcism have long been dominant features of life in African cultures. This unique book provides a thorough, field research-based description and analysis of a specifically Pentecostal Christian response to these phenomena within the Akan culture of Ghana. Anthropological studies generally claim that the ultimate goal of exorcism is modernisation. Using interdisciplinary studies with a theological focus, the author takes a different view, arguing that it is divinatory consultation or an inquiry into the sacred and the search for meaning that underlies the current "deliverance" ministry, where the focus is to identify and break down the so-called demonic forces by the power of God and to "deliver" people from their torment. The deliverance ministry is one attempt to contextualise the gospel for African people. However, preoccupation with demonisation and exorcistic practices is found to bring Christianity into tension with the Akan culture, family ties and other religions. In order to develop a properly safeguarded ministry of exorcism in an African context, the author examines contextualisation and suggests the integration into African Christianity of divinatory consultation, which has strong resonances with the biblical concept of prayer.

Heroic Africans
Heroic Africans

Author: Alisa LaGamma

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1588394328

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Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Rietberg Museum, Zeurich, at later dates.