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Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850-Present (Hardcover)
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Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850-Present (Hardcover)
Series: The International African Library
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Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis
of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious
history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it
focuses on a corpus of rituals collectively known as 'Fofie', which
derived their legitimacy from engaging with the memory of the
slave-holding past. The Anlo developed a sense of discomfort about
their agency in slavery in the early twentieth century which they
articulated through practices such as ancestor veneration, spirit
possession, and by forging links with descendants of peoples they
formerly enslaved. Conversion to Christianity, engagement with
'modernity', trans-Atlantic conversations with diasporan Africans,
and citizenship of the postcolonial state coupled with structural
changes within the religious system - which resulted in the decline
in Fofie's popularity - gradually altered the moral emphases of
legacies of slavery in the Anlo historical imagination as the
twentieth century progressed.
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