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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abaka, Edmund, editor.

Kwarteng, K. Osei (Kwame Osei), editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ashanti (African people).

Ashanti (African people)--History.

History.

Ashanti (Kingdom).

Africa--Ashanti (Kingdom).

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 340 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Edmund Abaka is Associate Professor of History and International Studies, University of Miami. His publications include Kola is God's Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives and the Kola Industry of Asante and the Gold Coast (2005); House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles and Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2012). Kwame Osei Kwarteng is aProfessor of History, former Head of the Department of History, and currently Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is the author of A History of Ahafo 1719-1958: Ahafo from dependence to independence (2011) and A History of the Elephant in Ghana in the Twentieth Century (2011).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Edmund Abaka and Kwame Osei Kwarteng

The Ahafo-Asante relations, 1712-1935 / Kwame Osei Kwarteng and 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 and 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 and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 09, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Abaka, Edmund The Asante World

ISBN:

9781351184069

1351184067

9781351184076

1351184075

9781351184052

1351184059

9781351184045

1351184040

OCLC:

1247658999

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