The history of Ashanti Kings and the whole country itself and other writings / by Otumfuo, Nana Agyeman Prempeh I ; edited by A. Adu Boahen ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prempeh I, King of Ashanti, 1870-1931.

Contributor:

Boahen, A. Adu.

Series:

Fontes historiae Africanae ; new ser. 6.

Fontes historiae africanae ; new ser. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ashanti (African people)--History.

Ashanti (African people).

History.

Ashanti (African people)--Kings and rulers.

Ashanti (Kingdom)--History.

Ashanti (Kingdom).

Ghana--History--To 1957.

Ghana.

Prempeh I, King of Ashanti, 1870-1931.

Prempeh.

Physical Description:

x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

This is a key text for understanding the history of the great West African kingdom of Asante (now in Ghana). It is perhaps the earliest example of history writing in English by an African ruler. The result is an indispensably detailed account of the Asante monarchy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Context is provided by the inclusion of other writings by or about Agyeman Prempeh, together with four introductory essays by the world's leading scholars of Asante history.

Contents:

Essays. Agyeman Prempeh before the exile / T.C. McCaskie

Agyeman Prempeh in the Seychelles, 1900-1924 / A. Adu Boahen

Agyeman Prempeh's return from exile, 1924-1931 / Emmanuel Akyeampong

Agyeman Prempeh as author : textual history / Ivor Wilks.

The Seychilles writings. Historical pieces ; Ethnographic pieces ; Office lists and genealogies ; Memoirs ; Reporting to the living, accounting for the dead / transcribed and presented by Nancy Lawler, T.C. McCaskie, and Ivor Wilks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0197262619

OCLC:

53052152