Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951-1960
This book is an account of Kwame Nkrumah and his government's long struggle to wrest administrative control of the Ghanaian countryside from the chiefs. Based largely upon previously unstudied documentation in Ghana, this study charts the government's frustrated attempts to democratize local government and the long and bitter campaigns mounted by many southern chiefs to resist their political marginalization.
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This book is an account of Kwame Nkrumah and his government's long struggle to wrest administrative control of the Ghanaian countryside from the chiefs. Based largely upon previously unstudied documentation in Ghana, this study charts the government's frustrated attempts to democratize local government and the long and bitter campaigns mounted by many southern chiefs to resist their political marginalization.
List of Maps & PhotographsPrefaceNote on Orthography & Titles1Introduction12Colonial Rule & the Chiefs93The Politics of Modernizing Local Government294The Erosion of Chiefly Jurisdiction485The Fusion of Local & National Politics596The Politics of Polarization777Independence & the Chiefs898Crushing the Chiefs1009Controlling the Chiefs11310Making & Unmaking the Chiefs12611'Local Co-operation with the Government'14012Conclusions150Bibliography165Index169
