Ghana in Africa and the world : essays in honor of Adu Boahen / edited by Toyin Falola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falola, Toyin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boahen, A. Adu.

Ghana--History.

Ghana.

History.

Ashanti (Kingdom)--History.

Ashanti (Kingdom).

Africa, English-speaking West--History.

Africa, English-speaking West.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

800 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2003]

Contents:

Adu boahen : an introduction / Toyin Falola.

Professor Albert Adu Boahen as an academic nationalist / Y.M. Alex-Assensoh & A.B. Assensoh

Off to Northern Ghana in the morning / Ivor Wilks

A letter to Adu / Paul Jenkins

Is racism a western idea? / J.F. Ade Ajayi

History and the making of Senegal : national identity from Leopold Sedar Senghor to Abdou Diouf, 1960-1987 / Mamadou Diouf

The production of historical knowledge for schools / Paul Zeleza

African indigenous knowledge systems : implications for the curriculum / Gloria Emeagwali

The kingdom of Wasa and Fante diplomacy in eighteenth-century Ghana / Larry W. Yarak

Lake Bosomtwe, Asante : a historical reading / T.C. McCaskie

Asantehene Agyeman Prempe I, Asante history, and the historian / Joseph K. Adjaye

Environmental folk wisdom versus scientific knowledge : producing and contesting knowledge in Anlo, Southeastern Ghana / Emmanuel Akyeampong

The practice of asylum at religious shrines in Asante and its periphery / Donna J.E. Maier

Islamization reconsidered : an examination of Asante responses to Muslim influence in the nineteenth century / David Owusu-Ansah

Messianism and anti-colonialism in Sierra Leone : the Bububya Rebellion revisited / Ismail Rashid

"For God and country" : portrait of Rev. M. D. Opara, 1905-1965 / Felix K. Ekechi

Experiencing evangecalism in Africa : an Africanist perspective / Ogbu U. Kalu

Christianity, custom and conflict in Africa / G.N. Uzoigwe

Contemporary African urban culture, indigenous religious beliefs and issues of African identity in the diaspora / C. Magbaily Fyle

Diffusion of kola nut production in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante), c. 1820-1960 / Edmund Abaka

African rural capitalism, cocoa farming and economic growth in colonial Ghana / Gareth Austin

the Nzemans of Southwestern Ghana : gold miners, rubber traders, loggers and entrepreneurs / Raymond E. Dumett.

International trade in West Africa in the nineteenth century Salaga and Kano as "ports of trade" / Paul E. Lovejoy

Legal and illegal enslavement in West Africa, in the context of the trans-atlantic slave trade / Robin Law

The known, the unknown, the knowable, and the unknowable : evidence and the evaluation of evidence in the measurement of the trans-Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori

Corruption in Africa / John Mukum Mbaku

Gender inequities in technology in developing nations : females and computers in traditional cultures / Leslie Irwin

Economic woman : women's rights and entrepreneurial women / Claire Robertson

An anti-colonial African monarchy : Nana Sir Ofori Atta I and the Conservative Nationalist tradition in Ghana / Richard Rathbone

A national resolution of crisis : the 1994 Nanumba-Konkomba ethnic conflict in Ghana / Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry

The dark shadow of Rwabugiri / J.B. Webster

Cold war at the sub-regional level : Ghana and Nigeria, 1957-1983 / Olayemi Akinwumi

Making sense of political violence in postcolonial Africa / Mahmood Mamdani

The implementation of ECOWAS treaty and protocols : the role of workers and civil society in the context of a comparison with the history of the European Union / A.I. Asiwaju

African/diaspora history : W.E.B. du Bois and Pan-africanism in Ghana / Jemima Pierre & Jesse Weaver Shipley

Nkrumahism and the Triple Heritage : out of the Shadows / Ali A. Mazrui

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1592210694

1592210708

OCLC:

51022738