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This is a collection of key essays about the Akan Peoples, their
history and culture. The Akans are an ethnic group in West Africa,
predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. From
the twelfth century on, Akans created numerous states based largely
on gold mining and trading of cash crops. This brought wealth to
numerous Akan states, such as Akwamu, which stretched all the way
to modern Benin, and ultimately led to the rise of the best known
Akan empire, the Empire of Ashanti. Throughout history, Akans were
a highly educated group; notable Akan people in modern times
include Kwame Nkrumah and Kofi Annan. This volume features a new
array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced
perspectives. This collection is the first of its kind.
The Akans are an ethnic group in West Africa, predominantly Ghana
and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. From the twelfth century
on, Akans created numerous states based largely on gold mining and
trading of cash crops. This brought wealth to numerous Akan states,
such as Akwamu, which stretched all the way to modern Benin, and
ultimately led to the rise of the best known Akan empire, the
Empire of Ashanti. Throughout history, Akans were a highly educated
group; notable Akan people in modern times include Kwame Nkrumah
and Kofi Annan. This volume features a new array of primary sources
that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives. This collection is the
first of its kind.
This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African
women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can
trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern
religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's
world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold
and bodies. Forced labour was essential to the world economy of the
Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were
enslaved and manumitted, baptised and unconvinced. While some women
liaised with European and mixed-race men along the West African
coast, others, ordinary yet bold, pushed back against new forms of
captivity, racial capitalism, religious orthodoxy and sexual
violence, as if they were already self-governing. Many Black Women
of this Fortress lays bare the insurgent ideas and actions of
Graca, Monica and Adwoa, charting how they advocated for themselves
and exercised spiritual and female power. Theirs is a collective
story, written from obscurity; from the forgotten and overlooked
colonial records. By drawing attention to their lives, we dare to
grasp the complexities of modernity's gestation.
A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its
entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past.
Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explores
the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value
for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers,
craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians,
technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers
featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in
action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of
entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and
showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As
they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these
explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous
enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social,
economic, and political debates in Africa today.
Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a
multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on
this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom
and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and
transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial
rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty
selections emphasize Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value
to global relations. They also demonstrate that the path to fully
understanding Ghana requires acknowledging its ethnic and cultural
diversity and listening to its population's varied voices. Readers
will encounter selections written by everyone from farmers,
traders, and the clergy to intellectuals, politicians, musicians,
and foreign travelers. With sources including historical documents,
poems, treaties, articles, and fiction, The Ghana Reader conveys
the multiple and intersecting histories of Ghana's development as a
nation, its key contribution to the formation of the African
diaspora, and its increasingly important role in the economy and
politics of the twenty-first century.
Kofi DOnkO was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important
healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and
custodian of shared values for his Ghanaian community. In Our Own
Way in This Part of the World Kwasi Konadu centers DOnkO's life
story and experiences in a communography of DOnkO's community and
nation from the late nineteenth century through the end of the
twentieth, which were shaped by historical forces from colonial
Ghana's cocoa boom to decolonization and political and religious
parochialism. Although DOnkO touched the lives of thousands of
citizens and patients, neither he nor they appear in national or
international archives covering the region. Yet his memory persists
in his intellectual and healing legacy, and the story of his
community offers a non-national, decolonized example of social
organization structured around spiritual forces that serves as a
powerful reminder of the importance for scholars to take their cues
from the lived experiences and ideas of the people they study.
Kofi DOnkO was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important
healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and
custodian of shared values for his Ghanaian community. In Our Own
Way in This Part of the World Kwasi Konadu centers DOnkO's life
story and experiences in a communography of DOnkO's community and
nation from the late nineteenth century through the end of the
twentieth, which were shaped by historical forces from colonial
Ghana's cocoa boom to decolonization and political and religious
parochialism. Although DOnkO touched the lives of thousands of
citizens and patients, neither he nor they appear in national or
international archives covering the region. Yet his memory persists
in his intellectual and healing legacy, and the story of his
community offers a non-national, decolonized example of social
organization structured around spiritual forces that serves as a
powerful reminder of the importance for scholars to take their cues
from the lived experiences and ideas of the people they study.
A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its
entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past.
Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explores
the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value
for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers,
craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians,
technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers
featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in
action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of
entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and
showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As
they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these
explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous
enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social,
economic, and political debates in Africa today.
25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found
predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and
Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright
kente cloth. From the fourth century on, the Akan created numerous
states based largely on gold production, commerce linked to Sudanic
Africa and the Mediterranean world, and an agrarian culture.
Attracted by its gold, Europeans established their West African
bases in the region they called the Gold Coast and built commercial
relations with indigenous states like Denkyira and Akwamu. As these
states gained wealth from regional and European commerce, gold was
surpassed by the trafficking in African captives to be used in the
overseas European colonies. Europeans established over 40 trading
forts along 341 miles of the Akan coastline, underscoring the
importance of the region. The lessons learned from the rise and
fall of numerous Akan states ultimately led to the rise of the
best-known Akan empire, the Asante Empire. Throughout its history,
the Akan have been innovators of sophisticated socio-political
organizations and in material culture, producing notables such as
the pan-Africanist and Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, and
sub-Saharan Africa's first U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan. This
first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary
sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the
histories of the Akan peoples. The second volume in the series on
the Akan people is The Akan People in Africa and the Diaspora: A
Historical Reader.
This is a collection of key essays about the Akan people, their
history, and their culture. The Akans are an ethnic group from West
Africa, predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people.
From the twelfth century on, Akans created numerous states based
largely on gold mining and the trading of cash crops. This brought
wealth to many states such as Akwamu, which stretched all the way
to modern Benin, and ultimately led to the rise of the best known
Akan empire, the Empire of Ashanti. Throughout history, Akans were
a highly educated group; notable Akan people in modern times
include Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah and U.N. Secretary General
Kofi Annan. This volume features a new array of primary sources
that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives. This collection is the
first of its kind.
The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found
predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and
Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright
kente cloth. From the fourth century on, the Akan created numerous
states based largely on gold production, commerce linked to Sudanic
Africa and the Mediterranean world, and an agrarian culture.
Attracted by its gold, Europeans established their West African
bases in the region they called the Gold Coast and built commercial
relations with indigenous states like Denkyira and Akwamu. As these
states gained wealth from regional and European commerce, gold was
surpassed by the trafficking in African captives to be used in the
overseas European colonies. Europeans established over 40 trading
forts along 341 miles of the Akan coastline, underscoring the
importance of the region. The lessons learned from the rise and
fall of numerous Akan states ultimately led to the rise of the
best-known Akan empire, the Asante Empire. Throughout its history,
the Akan have been innovators of sophisticated socio-political
organisations and in material culture, producing notables such as
the pan-Africanist and Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, and
Sub-Saharan Africa's first U. N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary
sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the
histories of the Akan peoples. This is and abridged version of the
academic hardcover edition for the general readers and students.
This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary
sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives and histories
of the Akan peoples.
The Portuguese produced the earliest records for regions in West
Africa, none more important than the Gold Coast. This edited volume
provides a unique collection of sources written in Portuguese,
Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish for Africa's Gold Coast, from
the late 15th to 17th century. Students, scholars, and
professionals with an avid interest in early modern African,
Atlantic, and world history will benefit from the English
translations, many appearing for the first time. These sources add
to the handful of existing translations, but especially illuminate
the late 15th to 17th century relations between the Portuguese
empire and the Gold Coast and offer comparative materials for other
European interlocutors-Spanish, French, English, and
Dutch-garrisoned on the coast or offshore in their vessels. Over
that concentrated period, and especially where no other
European-supplied records exist, these uncomprehending Portuguese
outsiders archived important local ideas, personalities, polities,
and cultural forms animating Gold Coast-Portuguese relations.
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