Ethnicity In Ghana
These essays address the neglected theme of ethnicity in Ghanaian history, society, and politics. The essays qualify the notion that ethnicity was purely a colonial "invention" by demonstrating the ways in which the boundaries of "we-groups" have mutated from pre-colonial times onwards. The collection also considers the particular manner in which the national question is posed today in terms of language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.
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Ten studies selected from a special workshop at a May 1995 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, apply findings from the many studies of ethnicity in southern and central Africa to Ghana. Historians and social scientists contend that ethnicity was not purely a colonial invention, that the boundaries of We-groups have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owned much to indigenous ways of seeing. They also examine national questions today over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ethnicity in Ghana: A Comparative Perspective--Carola Lentz & Paul Nugent • In the Mix: Women and Ethnicity among the Anlo-Ewe--Sandra Greene • "We Stay, Others Come and Go": Identity among the Mamprusi in Northern Ghana--Michael Schlottner • Asante Nationhood and Colonial Administrators, 1896-1935--Ivor Wilks • Be(com)ing Asante, Be(com)ing Akan: Thoughts on Gender, Identity, and the Colonial Encounter--David Killingray • Contested Identities: The History of Ethnicity in Northwestern Ghana--Carola Lentz • ""A Few Lesser People": The Central Togo Minorities and their Ewe Neighbors--Paul Nugent • The 1994 Civil War in Northern Ghana: The Genesis and Escalation of a "Tribal" Conlfict--Artur Bogner • Promotion of Ghanaian Languages and its Impact on National Unity: The Dagara Language Case--Sebastian Bemile
