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Author:
Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Naaborko, author.
Title:
The politics of chieftaincy : authority and property in colonial Ghana, 1920-1950 / Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch.
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Gã (African people)--Accra--Accra--History.
Gã (African people)--Accra--Accra--Politics and government.
Accra (Ghana)--Politics and government.
Chiefdoms--Ghana--History.
Land tenure--Ghana--History.
Ghana--History--To 1957.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references(pages 213-230) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion. Situating Ga institutions in the European colonial milieu -- Land legislation, commodification, and effects in Accra -- Negotiating chieftaincy, the Ga stool, and colonial intervention -- Succession disputes, the Ga state council, and the future of chieftaincy -- Contesting property in Accra and its periurban locales -- Conclusion.
Series:
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 61
ISBN:
1580464947 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781580464949 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)863596024
LCCN:
2014008212
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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