Zed Books / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-0-7556-0157-8. What does it mean to write a "national history"? What does it mean to write a national history of Ghana spanning a so-called modern era largely defined by the 19th and 20th centuries? Neither of these concepts as commonly defined in the West--neither the nation nor the modern era--sits comfortably on...
Zed Books / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — 323 p. — ISBN 978-0-7556-0157-8. What does it mean to write a "national history"? What does it mean to write a national history of Ghana spanning a so-called modern era largely defined by the 19th and 20th centuries? Neither of these concepts as commonly defined in the West--neither the nation nor the modern era--sits comfortably on...
Brill, 2015. — vi, 148 p. This chronology for 2004 to 2013 compiles the chapters on Ghana previously published in the Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara. Political stability in Ghana in the last few years contrasted with dramatic developments in other West-African countries. Ghana has a relatively high growth-rate, and also plays a role in...
Routledge, 2013. — 336 p. Leaders of the established 1966 military coup, including army officers Colonel E.K. Kotoka, Major A. A. Afrifa, Lieutenant General (retired) J. A. Ankrah, and Police Inspector General J.W.K. Harlley, justified their takeover by charging that the CPP administration was abusive and corrupt. They were equally disturbed by Kwame Nkrumah's aggressive...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 302 p. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a global movement with more than half a million Ghanaian members, runs an extensive network of English-language schools and medical facilities in Ghana today. Founded in South Asia in 1889, the Ahmadiyya arrived in Ghana when a small coastal community invited an Ahmadiyya missionary to visit in 1921. Why...
Lawrence Hill and Company, 1977. — 227 p. Kwame Nkrumah PC (1909 – 1972) was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. After twelve years abroad pursuing higher education, developing his political philosophy, and organizing with other diasporic pan-Africanists,...
Peter Lang, 2018. — 200 p. Memories of the German presence in the central Volta Region of Ghana are deep and vivid. This ethnically diverse area was part of the German Togoland colony from roughly 1884 to 1914 but German-speaking missionaries established stations earlier in the mid-nineteenth century. Ghanaian oral historians describe the violence, burdens, and inconveniences...
Scarecrow Press, 1995. — 477 p. Since 1957, Ghana has experienced four republics and five military regimes. This dictionary attempts to outline the complex course of Ghana's history since the probable human habitation at Jiman, on the Oti River. This volume updates McFarland's 1984 edition, covering events through the beginning of the Fourth Republic in January 1993. It's...
Fourth Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 514 p. Ghana, the former British colony of the Gold Coast, is historically known for being the first country to the south of the Sahara to attain political independence from colonial rule. It is known for its exports of cocoa and a variety of minerals, especially gold, and it is now an oil exporting country. But...
Praeger, 2002. — 272 p. Based on 25 years of research on and in Sabon Zongo, one of the oldest migrant communities in Accra, Ghana, this book is about the spatial and social production of this community within this urban setting. While Sabon Zongo is clearly part of the larger urban landscape of Accra, it is also culturally distinct, representing the melding of a migrant Hausa...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 318 p. The end of World War I saw the former German protectorate of Togoland split into British- and French- administered territories, and by the late 1940s, a political movement known as Ablɔɖe (meaning 'freedom' in the Ewe language) called for the reunification of British and French Togoland into an independent multiethnic state. Despite...
Langaa Research and Publishing, 2012. — 258 p. International development has its origins in the histories of nineteenth and early twentieth-century European colonisation. What happens when a leading colonial power decides to transform a model tropical colony, relying on head-loading of goods as the predominant form of transport, into a modern market economy on the back of the...
Москва: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1985. — 304 с. — (История стран Африки). Утверждено к печати Институтом Африки Академии наук СССР. Первое в советской африканистике обобщающее исследование новой и новейшей истории Ганы. Показано самостоятельное развитие народов Ганы в доколониальное время, анализируются становление, укрепление и постепенный распад...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1985. — 372 с. — (История стран Африки). Первое в советской африканистике обобщающее исследование новой и новейшей истории Ганы. Показано самостоятельное развитие народов Ганы в доколониальное время, анализируются становление, укрепление и постепенный распад колониального общества, вскрываются методы и формы британского...
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