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The Asante World (Paperback)
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The Asante World (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Worlds
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The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the
largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are
thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By
employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several
dimensions of Asante history including state formation,
Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante
northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines
the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a
short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays
excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture,
exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types
and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The
Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons,
Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress,
governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers,
epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful
contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this
volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates,
postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African
diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the
history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.
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