This book challenges previous assumptions about institutions,
social capital, and the nature of the African state by
investigating the history of political and economic change in
villages on either side of the Ghana Cote d Ivoire border. Prior to
European colonial rule, these Akan villages had very similar
political and cultural institutions. By the late 1990s, however,
Lauren M. MacLean found puzzling differences in the informal
institutions of reciprocity and indigenous notions of citizenship.
Drawing on extensive village-based fieldwork and archival research,
MacLean argues that divergent histories of state formation not only
shape how villagers help each other but also influence how local
groups and communities define citizenship and then choose to engage
with the state on an everyday basis. She examines the historical
construction of the state role in mediating risk at the local level
across three policy areas: political administration, social service
delivery, and agriculture, highlighting the importance of the
colonial and post-colonial state in transforming informal
institutions."
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