The Final Obsequies of the Late Nana Sir Ofori Atta, K.B.E. Abuakwahene

Africa ◽  
1945 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86
Author(s):  
Kwame Frimpong
Keyword(s):  
Gold Coast ◽  
The Government ◽  
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Opening ParagraphNana Sir Ofori Atta, K.B.E., died on 23 August 1943 after occupying the Paramount Stool of the tribe of Akim Abuakwa since 1912. He was a striking personality and without doubt the outstanding African of his generation in the Gold Coast. His statesmanship both in his tribal affairs and in the general politics of the Colony was exceptional. He was at once the chief of his own people, the acknowledged leader of his brother chiefs in the Colony, and the valued and trusted adviser of the Government.

The Problem of Language in Education in the Gold Coast

Africa ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Asamoa
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Rapid Multiplication ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
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Opening ParagraphIn a memorandum on education published in 1952, the Government of the Gold Coast declared that its policy was ‘to provide as soon as possible a six-year basic primary course for all children at public expense’. This policy has naturally led, not only to a rapid multiplication of the number of existing primary schools, but also to a widening of the individual classes, in order to make room for the increased number of children now entering school.

Some Observations on Religious Cults in Ashanti

Africa ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
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Opening ParagraphRecent happenings in the Gold Coast, and particularly in Ashanti, have tended to focus interest upon the structure of the constitution and the struggle for political power. Ten years ago two other movements were attracting at least as much attention. In a preliminary report on the work of the Ashanti Social Survey, published in 1948, Fortes described these as first, an apparently insatiable demand for schools, and, second, an almost equally if not more powerful development of what he called ‘new witch-finding cults’. That the demand for education of all kinds continues and is gradually being met is well known; it would be interesting, and perhaps, in the light of occurrences in other parts of Africa, significant to learn what has happened to the new cults.

The Sefwi Wiawso Riot of 1935: the deposition of an Omanhene in the Gold Coast

Africa ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
State Council ◽  
Western Province ◽  
Gun Shot ◽  
Cash Economy ◽  
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Shot Wounds

Opening ParagraphOn 15 November 193 5 a riot took place in Wiawso, the capital town of Sefwi Wiawso district in the then Western Province of the Gold Coast. It followed weeks of struggle to bring destoolment charges against the omanhene, Nana Kwame Tano II. Four people died of gun-shot wounds, forty were injured and the omanhene was assaulted. On 2 December the State Council completed its hearing of fifteen charges against the omanhene and brought in a majority verdict in favour of destoolment, which in due course was confirmed by the Governor.Studies of the deposition of chiefs in the Gold Coast have tended to focus on the changing reasons for and, particularly, the increased frequency of destoolment (Busia 1968: passim; Owusu 1970: 63ff.). Arhin especially has looked at the effect of the cash economy upon the relationships between chiefs and their subjects (Arhin 1976). Others have described the increasing complexity of the politico-jural structures surrounding the office and functions of chieftaincy as revealed in destoolment cases (Dunn and Robertson, 1973; Robertson 1976).

The Age-Set System of the Pastoral Pokot: The Sapana Initiation Ceremony

Africa ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Peristiany
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Western Kenya ◽  
Nomadic Pastoralists ◽  
The Government ◽  
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The Hill ◽  
Irrigation Agriculture ◽  
North Western ◽  
Ecological Pattern ◽  
Do So

Opening ParagraphThe society to which this paper refers is a Nilo-Hamitic tribe of north-western Kenya among whose people, the Pokot, I carried out field-work for a period of approximately 6 months in 1947. For the opportunity to do so I am indebted to the Government of Kenya.The population of West Suk does not exceed 25,000 but is dispersed over an area of 1,810 square miles. The eastern and western sections of this tribe are composed of semi-nomadic pastoralists, the pi-pa-tich (cattle people) who live in arid and often semi-desert plains. Between the plains rise the Suk Hills, inhabited by the pi-pa-pagh (people of the grain) who, in certain areas, practise intensive irrigation agriculture and in others follow the usual ecological pattern of the mixed-economy Kipsigis and Nandi. The hill people have close cultural affinities with the Nandi group, while the pastoralists have been strongly influenced by their Karamojong and Turkana neighbours.

The Gold Coast

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-143
Author(s):  
Robert L. Tignor
Keyword(s):  
Gold Coast ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
People's Party ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Teaching Position ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Government

This chapter details how, at the end of 1952, shortly after returning from a tour of Asia where his intellectual breakthrough led to the article on unlimited supplies of labor, W. Arthur Lewis received an invitation to advise the government of the Gold Coast on industrialization. The invitation came not from British colonial offices in the Gold Coast, but the rising nationalist party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), led by its charismatic political leader, Kwame Nkrumah. The vitality of the Gold Coast nationalists impressed Lewis, and the opportunity to advise Africans, rather than British officials, was new and exciting. Although he spent only several months of 1952 in the Gold Coast, preparing the report, and immediately returned to his teaching position at Manchester, his stay linked him to the Gold Coast and its leaders. From then onwards, British officials and Gold Coast nationalists alike regarded him as the top expert on their economy and turned to him to evaluate economic projects. Ultimately, the decision to advise the Gold Coast on its industrial prospects led Lewis away from purely academic endeavors and placed him squarely in the public arena.

The Financing of the Ashanti Expansion (1700–1820)

Africa ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame Arhin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
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Opening ParagraphThe arrival of Europeans, and the introduction of guns, first in the coastal areas JL and then into the interior of West Africa, altered the nature of warfare. Already in the seventeenth century, the Akan-Fanti, Akim, Akwamu, and other peoples on the Gold Coast no longer relied entirely on bows and arrows, spears, and javelins which were the traditional weapons but used guns and even a few cannon. Besides the change in weapons, wars were undertaken on a larger scale than ever before—a situation which was aggravated by participation in the slave trade. Among the peoples of the Gold Coast, now Ghana, none excelled the Ashanti in either the scale or intensity of their fighting. From the turn of the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, they fought major wars of conquest and minor ones of consolidation throughout the area of present-day Ghana, and after 1820 they were involved in four major clashes with the British until the latter dissolved their kingdom in 1900.

From warrior to migrants: critical perspectives on early migrations among the Zarma of Niger

Africa ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Painter
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Technical Cooperation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
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Critical Perspectives

Opening ParagraphIn 1956 the Journal de la Société des Africanistes published a monograph-length paper by Jean Rouch entitled ‘Migrations au Ghana (Gold Coast: enquête 1953–1955)’ (Rouch, 1956). The paper was one of several publications during the 1950s and 1960s based on studies by Rouch and other researchers who participated in what was probably the largest study ever of West African migrations, financed by the Commission for Technical Cooperation in Africa South of the Sahara and the Scientific Council for Africa South of the Sahara (CCTA/CSA).

Some New Shrines of the Gold Coast and their Significance

Africa ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Field
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Simple Type ◽  
Coastal Plains ◽  
The North ◽  
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Opening ParagraphThere is reason to believe that at one time the greater part of the Gold Coast had one simple type of social organization. Where destruction of this took place the disturbing influences spread from the North southwards. On the coastal plains are some areas which, for various reasons, were barely touched. In these areas the aboriginal type of social organization is preserved, more or less intact, to-day.

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