Forests of Gold : Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante
by
Ivor Wilks
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0821411357
ISBN-13
9780821411353
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Imprint
Ohio University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 1995
Print length
408 Pages
Weight
658 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.70 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
African history
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Forests of Gold is a collection of essays on the peoples of Ghana with particular reference to the most powerful of all their kingdoms: Asante. Beginning with the global and local conditions under which Akan society assumed its historic form between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, these essays go on to explore various aspects of Asante culture: conceptions of wealth, of time and motion, and the relationship between the unborn, the living, and the dead. The final section is focused upon individuals and includes studies of generals, of civil administrators, and of one remarkable woman who, in 1831, successfully negotiated peace treaties with the British and the Danes on the Gold Coast. The author argues that contemporary developments can only be fully understood against the background of long-term trajectories of change in Ghana.
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