Ghana in Africa and the world : essays in honor of Adu Boahen / edited by Toyin Falola.

Other author Falola, Toyin.
Format Book
Publication InfoTrenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2003.
Description800 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Boahen, A. Adu.
Ghana--History.
Ashanti (Kingdom)--History.
Africa, English-speaking West--History.

Contents Adu boahen : an introduction / Toyin Falola. -- Professor Albert Adu Boahen as an academic nationalist / Y.M. Alex-Assensoh & A.B. Assensoh -- Off to Northern Ghana in the morning / Ivor Wilks -- A letter to Adu / Paul Jenkins -- Is racism a western idea? / J.F. Ade Ajayi -- History and the making of Senegal : national identity from Leopold Sedar Senghor to Abdou Diouf, 1960-1987 / Mamadou Diouf -- The production of historical knowledge for schools / Paul Zeleza -- African indigenous knowledge systems : implications for the curriculum / Gloria Emeagwali -- The kingdom of Wasa and Fante diplomacy in eighteenth-century Ghana / Larry W. Yarak -- Lake Bosomtwe, Asante : a historical reading / T.C. McCaskie -- Asantehene Agyeman Prempe I, Asante history, and the historian / Joseph K. Adjaye -- Environmental folk wisdom versus scientific knowledge : producing and contesting knowledge in Anlo, Southeastern Ghana / Emmanuel Akyeampong -- The practice of asylum at religious shrines in Asante and its periphery / Donna J.E. Maier -- Islamization reconsidered : an examination of Asante responses to Muslim influence in the nineteenth century / David Owusu-Ansah -- Messianism and anti-colonialism in Sierra Leone : the Bububya Rebellion revisited / Ismail Rashid -- "For God and country" : portrait of Rev. M. D. Opara, 1905-1965 / Felix K. Ekechi -- Experiencing evangecalism in Africa : an Africanist perspective / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Christianity, custom and conflict in Africa / G.N. Uzoigwe -- Contemporary African urban culture, indigenous religious beliefs and issues of African identity in the diaspora / C. Magbaily Fyle -- Diffusion of kola nut production in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante), c. 1820-1960 / Edmund Abaka -- African rural capitalism, cocoa farming and economic growth in colonial Ghana / Gareth Austin -- the Nzemans of Southwestern Ghana : gold miners, rubber traders, loggers and entrepreneurs / Raymond E. Dumett.
Contents International trade in West Africa in the nineteenth century Salaga and Kano as "ports of trade" / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Legal and illegal enslavement in West Africa, in the context of the trans-atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- The known, the unknown, the knowable, and the unknowable : evidence and the evaluation of evidence in the measurement of the trans-Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori -- Corruption in Africa / John Mukum Mbaku -- Gender inequities in technology in developing nations : females and computers in traditional cultures / Leslie Irwin -- Economic woman : women's rights and entrepreneurial women / Claire Robertson -- An anti-colonial African monarchy : Nana Sir Ofori Atta I and the Conservative Nationalist tradition in Ghana / Richard Rathbone -- A national resolution of crisis : the 1994 Nanumba-Konkomba ethnic conflict in Ghana / Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry -- The dark shadow of Rwabugiri / J.B. Webster -- Cold war at the sub-regional level : Ghana and Nigeria, 1957-1983 / Olayemi Akinwumi -- Making sense of political violence in postcolonial Africa / Mahmood Mamdani -- The implementation of ECOWAS treaty and protocols : the role of workers and civil society in the context of a comparison with the history of the European Union / A.I. Asiwaju -- African/diaspora history : W.E.B. du Bois and Pan-africanism in Ghana / Jemima Pierre & Jesse Weaver Shipley -- Nkrumahism and the Triple Heritage : out of the Shadows / Ali A. Mazrui
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002152571
ISBN1592210694 (hardcover)
ISBN1592210708 (pbk.)