By featuring the life histories of eight senior men, Making Men in
Ghana explores the changing meaning of becoming a man in modern
Africa. Stephan F. Miescher concentrates on the ideals and
expectations that formed around men who were prominent in their
communities when Ghana became an independent nation. Miescher shows
how they negotiated complex social and economic transformations and
how they dealt with their mounting obligations and responsibilities
as leaders in their kinship groups, churches, and schools. Not only
were notions about men and masculinity shaped by community
standards, but they were strongly influenced by imported standards
that came from missionaries and other colonial officials. As he
recounts the life histories of these men, Miescher reveals that the
passage to manhood-and a position of power, seniority, authority,
and leadership-was not always welcome or easy. As an important foil
for studies on women and femininity, this groundbreaking book not
only explores masculinity and ideals of male behavior, but offers a
fresh perspective on African men in a century of change.
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