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Volume 22, 2019: Featuring a Special Forum in Memory of James Kwesi Anquandah
Volume 21, 2018: Twentieth Anniversary Issue
Volume 20, 2017: A Special Issue in Honor of John Collins
Volume 19, 2016
Volume 18, 2015
Volume 17, 2014: Free to Read on Project MUSE
Volume 15–16, 2012–2013: Special Double Issue
Volume 14, 2011
Volume 12-13, 2009-2010: Special Double Issue
Volume 11, 2008
Volume 10, 2007
Volume 9, 2006
Volume 8, 2005
Volume 7, 2004
Volume 6, 2003
Volume 5, 2002
Volume 4, 2001
Volume 3, 2000: Special Issue on the Yaa Asantewaa War
Volume 2, 1999
Volume 1, 1998
Volume 22, 2019: Featuring a Special Forum in Memory of James Kwesi Anquandah
A Farewell Note from the Editors
Articles
Political Economy of Internal Migration and Labor-Seeking Behavior of Poor Youth in Ghana Joseph Kweku Assan and Dinar D. Kharisma
When Men Touch Women without License: Interrogating the Reasons for Women's Entry into Consensual Unions in Urban Accra, Ghana Rosemary Obeng-Hinneh
The Posuban Is Our Pride: Maintaining and Modernizing a Tradition and Its Visual Language Kwame Amoah Labi
"Kill Rats and Stop Plague": Race, Space, and Public Health in Postconquest Kumasi Benjamin Talton
Taxation Without Resistance: Native Treasuries in the Northern Territories Sarah Kunkel
Special Forum
Reframing the Reach of Archaeology in Ghana: Commemorating James Kwesi Anquandah (1938–2017) Ebony Coletu
Descendant Epistemology Ebony Coletu
"Archaeo, That Useless Subject": Excavating the Past through Autoarchaeology and Community Outreach Education Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
Iconography, Documentary Evidence, Continuity, and Akan Musical Expressions Before the 15th Century Kwasi Ampene
The Influence of James Anquandah on the Development and Practice of Eclectic Archaeology in Ghana Mohammed Mustapha and Wazi Apoh
Reviews
Nana Oforiatta Ayim, curator, Ghana Freedom: Ghana Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (11 May–24 November 2019) Benjamin N. Lawrance
Victoria Ellen Smith, ed., Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955–57 Jesse Weaver Shipley
Contributors
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Volume 21, 2018: Twentieth Anniversary Issue
Note from the Editors: Ghana Studies @20
Articles
Jack Goody: Early Fieldwork and the Passing of an Era of Cambridge Anthropology in Northern Ghana Isidore Lobnibe
Mapping the Web of Relations: Understanding Mobile Phone Appropriation among Produce Traders in Ghana Rabiu K. B. Asante and Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo
A Shared Legacy: Atlantic Dimensions of Gold Coast (Ghana) History in the Nineteenth Century Rebecca Shumway
Ghana Studies @20/The Ghana Studies Association @30 Special Anniversary Forum
@60 Jean Allman
Ghana Studies Since the 1960s Ato Quayson
Editing Ghana Studies: A Conversation with Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Stephan F. Miescher Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Stephan F. Miescher
Women, Gender, and “Specifically Historical” Research on Ghana: A Retrospective Kate Skinner
The Ivorian Origins of the Ghana Studies Association Elisa Prosperetti
Ghana Studies: Reflections on the Association Dennis Laumann
Reflections on the GSA @30 Ben Talton
The Ghana Studies Association: Looking Ahead Nana Akua Anyidoho
From the GS Vaults
“Eating Kola”: The Pharmacological and Therapeutic Significance of Kola Nuts Edmund Abaka
Comment on “Eating Kola”: The Revolution to Come? or The Revolution That Never Was? Edmund Abaka
Comment on “Eating Kola”: The Global Circulation of Plants from Ghana Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Book Reviews
Karen Lauterbach, Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power in Ghana Sandra E. Greene
Kwame Essien, Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana: The Tabom, Slavery, Dissonance of Memory, Identity, and Locating Home Sean H. Reid
Contributors
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Volume 20, 2017: A Special Issue in Honor of John Collins
Note from the Editors
Articles
Praxis, Perspectives, and Methods of Ghanaian Popular Music: A Special Issue in Honor of John Collins Nate Plageman and Jesse Weaver Shipley
John Collins: Highlife's Accidental Archivist Catherine M. Cole
Building “A Home Away from Home”: Musical Spaces and Diasporic “Feedback” from London to Accra, 1950s–1980s Alison Okuda
“Worshipping in My Head”: Everyday Devotional Practices and Disciplines of Listening among Ghanaian Christians Florian Carl
“Kekeli Nedo!”: The Influence of the Church on Musical Practices in Ghana Eyram Fiagbedzi
Toward a “Culturally Responsive Music Curriculum”: Harnessing the Power of Ghanaian Popular Music in Ghana's Public Education Sector Eric Otchere
Retuning Imperial Intentions: The Gold Coast Police Band, West African Students, and a 1947 Tour of Great Britain Nate Plageman
From Primitivism to Pan-Africanism: Remaking Modernist Aesthetics in Postcolonial Nigeria Jesse Weaver Shipley
From the GS Vaults
Popular Performance and Culture in Ghana: The Past 50 Years John Collins
Book Reviews
Steven Feld, Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana Karl J. Haas
Nate Plageman, Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana Marceline Saibou
Album Review
Granny Nanny Cultural Group, Granny Nanny Come Oh: Jamaican Maroon Kromanti and Kumina Music and Other Oral Traditions Clifford C. Campbell
Contributors
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Volume 19, 2016
Note from the Editors
Articles
Money That Isn’t: A Qualitative Examination of the Adoption of the 1 Pesewa Coin and Biometric Payment Cards in Ghana Vivian Dzokoto, Rebecca Asante, and John K. Aggrey
Special Section—Aging in Ghana Addressing the Multifaceted Needs of Older Ghanaians
Aging in Ghana: Setting Priorities for Research, Intervention and Policy Ama de-Graft Aikins and Nana Araba Apt
Not a Nurse, Not Househelp: The New Occupation of Elder Carer in Urban Ghana Cati Coe
Elderly Women, Community Participation, and Family Care in Ghana: Lessons from HIV Response and AIDS Orphan Care in Manya Krobo Deborah Atobrah
Health and Well-Being of Older Adults in Ghana: Social Support, Gender, and Ethnicity Paul K. Ayernor
Household Composition and Well-Being of Older Persons in Ghana George Domfe and Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey
Aging Policies in Ghana: A Review of the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty and the National Health Insurance Scheme Seidu Alidu, Ernestina Dankyi, and Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko
Research on Aging in Ghana from the 1950s to 2016: A Bibliography and Commentary Ama de-Graft Aikins, Mawuli Kushitor, Olutobi Sanuade, Samuel Dakey, Delali Dovie, and Joanna Kwabena-Adade
Studying Older People in Ghana: Closing Reflections Sjaak van der Geest
Book Reviews
Edmund Abaka, House of Slaves and “Door of No Return”: Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles & Dungeons and the
Atlantic Slave Trade Kwame Essien
Paul Schauert, Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles Jane Plastow
Contributors
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Volume 18, 2015
Note from the Editors
Articles
Fort Prindzenstein: A Monument in the Identity of Keta-Someawo Philip Atsu Afeadie
“I Am a Good Mother”: Becoming an Adolescent Mother in Ghana Akosua Dzifa Eghan
“I Am Austro-Ghanaian”: Citizenship and Belonging of Ghanaians in Austria Michael Perry Kweku Okyerefo
Who Is the “Community” in Community Radio?: A Case Study of Radio Progress in the Upper West Region, Ghana Africanus L. Diedong and Lawrence Naaikuur
“Fetishism” in the Gold Coast: Wadé Harris and the Anti-Witchcraft
Movements Alessandra Brivio
Our Resource, Others’ Wealth: The Origins of Legalized
Discrimination against Local Goldsmiths in Ghana Ishaq Akmey Alhassan
Hidden Violence of Postcolonial Africa: A Communicative
Ecology View of Ghanaís Upper East Region Marcus D. Watson and Gilbert Ambaba
Notes and Documents
The Enduring Puzzle of Patriliny in Asante History:
A Note and a Document on Ntɔrɔ Tom McCaskie
Reflections in Honor of Ivor Wilks
The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks Jean Allman
“Off to Northern Ghana in the Morning”: Ramifications of a Trip David Owusu-Ansah
In Memory of Professor Ivor Wilks Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Ivor Wilks: The British Africanist Ivor Agyeman-Duah
Ivor Wilks (1928–2014) Tom McCaskie
The Northern Factor in Ghana History Benjamin Talton
Book Review
Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, The Politics of Chieftaincy Authority
and Property in Colonial Ghana, 1920–1950. John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu
Contributors
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Volume 17, 2014
Freely available to read on Project MUSE
Editors’ Note Akosua Darkwah and Sean Hanretta
Special Issue Editor’s Note Benjamin Talton
Blackboard Struggles: Teacher Unionism under the “Democratic” Rawlings Regime, 1992–2000 Samuel Amoako
Global Economic Crisis and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Historical Experience and Lessons from the “Lost Decade” for Africa in the 1980s Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei, Peter Ohene Keyi, and Kwadwo Afriyie
(In)Visible Diasporan Returnee Communities: Silences and the Challenge in Studying Trans-Atlantic History in Ghana Kwame Essien
The Ritualization of the Self in Ghanaian Gospel Music Florian Carl
Protecting the Environment for the Present and Future Generations: REDD+ and the Reversal of Deforestation in Ghana Albert A. Arhin and Mohammed-Anwar Sadat Adam
The Kusasi-Mamprusi Conflict in Bawku: A Legacy of British Colonial Policy in Northern Ghana Felix Y. T. Longi
Different Ideas of Borders and Border Construction in Northern Ghana: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives Giulia Casentini
Cosmopolitanism: Why Nineteenth Century Gold Coast Thinkers Matter in the Twenty-First Century Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Free People, Slaves and Pawns in the Western Gold Coast: The Demography of Dependency in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Archival Source Pierluigi Valsecchi
Review:
Albert Kafui Wuaku, Hindu Gods in West Africa: Ghanaian Devotees of Shiva and Krishna Dennis Laumann
Notes on Contributors
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Volume 15/16, 2012–2013
Guest Editors: Sjaak van der Geest, Kristine Krause, and Kodjo Senah
Editors’ Note Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Stephan F. Miescher
Introduction: Studying Health and Health Care in Ghana Sjaak van der Geest and Kristine Krause
Articles on Health and Health Care
The Perception of Abnormality in Kasena and Nankani Infants: Clarifying Infanticide in Northern Ghana Albert K. Awedoba and Aaron R. Denham
Caring for the Seriously Sick in a Ghanaian Society: Glimpses from the Past Deborah Atobrah
“No Matter How the Child Is, She Is Hers”: Practical Kinship in the Care of Mental Illness in Kintampo, Ghana Ursula M Read
HIV Disclosure in Ghana: The Underlying Gender Dimension to Trust and Caregiving Fidelia Ohemeng
Mobile Technology and HIV/AIDS in Ghana Perpetual Crentsil
Dilemmas of Patient Expertise: People Living with HIV as Peer Educators in a Ghanaian Hospital Jonathan Mensah Dapaah and Eileen Moyer
Pharmaceutical Potentials: Praying over Medicines in Pentecostal Healing Kristine Krause
Humanitarian Claims and Expert Testimonies: Contestations over Health Care for Ghanaian Migrants in the United Kingdom
Benjamin N. Lawrance
Mission Medicine in a Decolonising Health Care System: Agogo Hospital, Ghana, 1945-1980
Pascal Schmid
Documentaries on Women’s Health
Accra’s Women on Screen, 2001: A Documentary Pair about Body, Risks, Tonics, and Health R. Lane Clark, Nancy Rose Hunt, and Takyiwaa Manuh
Other Articles
Managing the Pan-African Workplace: Discipline, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of the Ghanaian Bureau of African Affairs Jeffrey S. Ahlman
Staging Unity, Performing Subjectivities: Nkrumah, Nation-Building, and the Ghana Dance Ensemble Paul Schauert
Discourses of Love and Newspapers Advice Columns in Ghana Jo Ellen Fair
Reviews
New Wine in Old Wineskins: The Conservative Tradition in Ghana’s Historical Surveys David Peterson del Mar
Christine Oppong, Delali M. Badasu, and Kari Waemess, eds., Child Care in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana Cati Coe
Notes on Contributors
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Volume 14, 2011
Editors’ Note Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Stephan F. Miescher
Reconsidering Ivor Wilks’s ‘Big Bang’ Theory of Akan History Mariano Pavanello
Tamale: Election 2008, Violence, and “Unemployment” Wyatt MacGaffey
Ethnicity, Religion, and Conflict in Ghana: The Roots of Ga Nativism Richard Asante
Growing Up in a Transnational Household: A Study of Children of International Migrants in Accra, Ghana Ernestina Korleki Dankyi
Child Domestic Labor in Accra: Opportunity and Empowerment or Perpetuation of Gender Inequality? Peace Mamle Tetteh
Neo-Liberal Economic Restructuring of Public Universities in Ghana: Effects and Challenges for Academic Women Scientists Josephine Beoku-Betts
‘The One Who First Says I Love You’: Same-Sex Love and Female Masculinity in Postcolonial Ghana Serena Owusua Dankwa
‘This Thing is Sweet’: Ntetee and the Reconfiguration of Sexual Subjectivity in Post-Colonial Ghana William Banks
Notes on Contributors
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Volume 12-13, 2009–2010: Special Double Issue
Guest Editors: Peter J. Bloom, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher
Editors’ Note Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Stephan F. Miescher
Introduction: Revisiting Modernization in Ghana Giancarlo Pichillo
Hydro-Power and the Promise of Modernity and Development in Ghana: Comparing the Akosombo and Bui Dam Projects Stephan F. Miescher and Dzodzi Tsikata,
Modernity, Religion and Development in Ghana: The Example of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community John H. Hanson
Maternity and Modernity in the Gold Coast, 1920s–1950s Anne Hugon
Consulting Elderly Kumasi Market Women about Modernization Gracia Clark
Modernity and Danger: The Boy Kumasenu and the Work of the Gold Coast Film Unit Peter J. Bloom and Kate Skinner
Traditions of Modernity: Currents in Architectural Expression in Kumasi Kevin D. Dumouchelle
Gyamfi’s Golden Soap: Commodity Marketing, Reform Legitimation, and the Performance of Cultural Authenticity in Ghana’s Popular Theatre David Afriyie Donkor
The Funeral as a Site for Choreographing Modern Identities in Contemporary Ghana Esi Sutherland-Addy
Misnomer: Reflections on a Dance Performance Sheron Wray
“Still 2 Trouble(s) One God”: Art Exhibition at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon Bernard Akoi-Jackson and R. Lane Clark
The Revisiting Modernization Short Story Competition Yaba Badoe
Time Bomb Tsiate Totimeh
There are Always Two Sides to Every Story Victoria Amma Agyeiwaah Moffatt
Dim Dim, Tim Tim Benjamin Kent
Participants in the Revisiting Modernization Conference, University of Ghana, July 2009
Notes on Contributors
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Volume 11, 2008
Editors’ Note Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Stephan F. Miescher
The Historical and Political Legacies of the Transformations of the (Dutch) Sekondi Socio-Economic Landscape during the Early Twentieth Century Giancarlo Pichillo
Hard Work, Determination, and Luck: Biographical Narratives of a Northern Ghanaian Elite Carola Lentz
Ausländer!: Pentecostalism as Social Capital Network for Ghanaians in Vienna Michael Perry Kweku Okyerefo
Reflections on By-Elections in the Fourth Republic of Ghana Alexander K. D. Frempong
Truly National? Social Exclusion and the Ghana@50 Celebrations Nana Akua Anyidoho and Kofi Takyi Asante
The “Commercial” and “Museum” Life of Some Akan Brass Works Kwame Amoah Labi
Review Essay: Situating Histories of Consumption and Consumers in Ghana Bianca Murillo
Notes on Contributors
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Volume 10, 2007
Editors’ Note
Lynne Brydon and Takyiwaa Manuh
Popular Performance and Culture in Ghana: The Past 50 Years John Collins
Fifty Years in Kwahu-Tafo: Memories and Reflections of an Anthropologist Sjaak van der Geest
Fifty Years of the Media’s Struggle for Democracy in Ghana: Legacies and Encumbrances Audrey Gadzekpo
Politics in Ghana Since 1957: The Quest for Freedom, National Unity, and Prosperity Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi
Asante History: A Personal History of Forty Years T. C. McCaskie
Women in Ghana at 50: Still Struggling to Achieve Full Citizenship? Dzodzi Tsikata
Notes on Contributors
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Volume 9, 2006
Editors’ Note
Lynne Brydon and Takyiwaa Manuh
The Dutch Gold-Mining Effort in Ahanta, 1841–9 Larry W. Yarak
‘Natives’ and ‘Strangers’ on the Outskirts of Kumasi Sara Berry
Legitimating a Contested Boundary: Northern Ghanaian Immigrants and the Historicity of Land Conflict in Ahyiayem, Brong Ahafo Isidore Lobnibe
Wealth and Worth: Pastorship and Neo-Pentecostalism in Kumasi Karen Lauterbach
(A)sexualizing Ghanaian Youth?: A Case Study of Virgin Clubs in Accra and Kumasi Akosua K. Darkwah & Alexina Arthur
Transcending Gendered Economics: Grassroots Women’s Agency in the Informal Sector of the Ghanaian Economy Agnes Atia Apusigah
The Making of an African Bolshevik: Bankole Awooner Renner in Moscow, 1925–1928 Holger Weiss
Notes on Contributors
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Volume 8, 2005
Editors’ Note
Takyiwaa Manuh and Lynne Brydon
Education, Literacy, Training, and Propaganda in a Ghanaian Border Town Leo Barrington
Excavations at Techiman, Brong-Ahafo J. Boachie-Ansah
Teacher Trainees in Ghana in the early 1960s: Women and the Teaching of Home Science Richard Glotzer and Lila Engberg
Going, Going, Gone! Implications of the Repeal of Criminal Libel and Sedition Laws in Ghana Emmanuel Laryea and Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo
Charismatism, Women, and Testimonies: Religion and Popular Culture in Ghana Brigid M. Sackey
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Volume 7, 2004
Editors’ Note
Takyiwaa Manuh and Lynne Brydon
Guest Editor’s Introduction Ray Silverman
Earth Shrines and the Politics of Memory in Dagbon Wyatt MacGaffey
Memories of Place and Belonging: Identity, Citizenship, and the Lebanese in Ghana Emmanuel Akyeampong
Korle Bu and the Midwives Hostel as a Site of memory for Ghanaian Pupil Midwives, 1930s–1950s Anne Hugon
‘Slave Castles’ and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Ghanaian and African American Perspectives Brempong Osei-Tutu
The Politics of Memory: Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle Exhibition ‘Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade’ Christine Mullen Kreamer
Asen Praso in History and Memory Sue Benson and T.C. McCaskie
Encyclopedia of the Dead: Transgenerational Memories and Cultural Transmission Among the Akan of Ghana Osei-Mensah Aborampah
‘In Blessed Memory’: (Re)presentations of the Lives of the Departed in Ghanaian Funeral Programs Mansah PRAH
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Volume 6, 2003
Editorial Takyiwaa Manuh and Lynne Brydon
Crop Failures, Food Shortages and Colonial Famine Relief Policies in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Holger Weiss
The Sex Trade, Globalization and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Ghanaian Migrants in Toronto, Canada: Care of Kin and Gender Relations Takyiwaa Manuh
Connecting with the Past, Building the Future: African Americans and Chieftaincy in Southern Ghana Susan Benson
‘Forget the Past or Go Back to the Slave Trade’: Trans-Africanism and Popular History in Postcolonial Ghana Jennifer Hasty
Re-evaluating the ‘Colonization’ of Akyem Abuakwa: Amoako Atta, the Basel Mission, and the Gold Coast Courts, 1867–1887 Trevor Getz
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Volume 5, 2002
Editor’s Introduction Larry W. Yarak
Special Section: Teaching and Learning in Ghana
Guest Editor: Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Introduction: Teaching and Learning in Ghana—Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Education in Ghana: Yesterday and Today Francis Agbodeka
Mass Education and Communication in Ghana: A Globalization Perspective Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh
History of Islamic Education in Ghana: An Overview David Owusu-Ansah
Gender Issues in Ghanaian Tertiary Institutions: Women Academics and Administrators at Cape Coast University Mansah Prah
Does Women’s Education Matter in Childbearing Decision Making? A Case Study from Urban Ghana Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Other Articles:
The Bureaucratization of Traditional Authority under Colonial Rule: The Asante Stool Treasuries, 1927–1944 Arhin Brempong and Mariano Pavanello
Free People, Slaves and Pawns in the Western Gold Coast: The Demography of Dependency in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Archival Source Pierluigi Valsecchi
Sacred Groves as Historical and Archaeological Markers in Southern Ghana Gérard Chouin
‘Nigger Driver Brothers’: Australian Colonial Racism in the Early Gold Coast Mining Industry David Dorward
‘Mallams Do Not Fight With the Heathen’: A Note on Suwarian Attitudes to Jihad Ivor Wilks
The Performativity of Akan Libations: A Comment Sjaak van der Geest
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Volume 4, 2001
Editor’s Introduction Larry W. Yarak
Special Section: Moral Discourses and Public Spaces in the Fourth Republic
Guest Editors: Birgit Meyer and Paul Nugent
Moral Discourses and Public Spaces in the Fourth Republic Birgit Meyer and Paul Nugent
Aid or Hindrance? Faith Gospel Theology and Ghana’s Incorporation into the Global Economy Akosua K. Darkwah
Contesting Silence: The Ban on Drumming and the Musical Politics of Pentecostalism in Ghana Rijk van Dijk
Money, Power and Morality: Popular Ghanaian Cinema in the Fourth Republic Birgit Meyer
The Things That Money Can Buy: Chieftaincy, the Media and the 1996 Elections in Hohoe-North Constituency Paul Nugent
Other articles:
The Performativity of Akan Libations: An Ethnopoetic Construction of Reality Joseph K. Adjaye
A Precolonial, Political History of the Sefwi Wiawso Oman Stefano Boni
Interpersonal Networks and the Dissemination of the Mass Media’s Environmental Agenda in Ghana Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo
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Volume 3, 2000: Special Issue in Commemoration of the Yaa Asantewaa War of 1900
Editor’s Introduction Larry W. Yarak
Guest Editor: Emmanuel Akyeampong
Asante at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Emmanuel Akyeampong
Asante at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight Ivor Wilks
The Golden Stool at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight T. C. McCaskie
The Role of Nana Yaa Asantewaa in the 1900 Asante War of Resistance Nana Arhin Brempong
Yaa Asantewaa in the Yaa Asantewaa War of 1900: Military Leader or Symbolic Head? Adu Boahen
Yaa Asantewaa’s War of Independence: Honoring and Ratifying an Historic Pledge Pashington Obeng
Long Live the Queen!: The Yaa Asantewaa Centenary and the Politics of History Lynda Day
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Volume 2, 1999
Editor’s Introduction Larry W. Yarak
Special Section: Contemporary Ghanaian Migration
Guest Editor: Takyiwaa Manuh
Introduction: Contemporary Ghanaian Migration Takyiwaa Manuh
Travel Patterns and Coping Strategies of Ghanaian Migrants in Toronto Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang
The African Diaspora: A Socio-Demographic Portrait of the Ghanaian Migrant Community in the United States of America Baffour Takyi
Been-To Visions: Transnational Linkages Among a Ghanaian Dispersed Community in the Twentieth Century Stephan F. Miescher and Leslie Ashbaugh
‘This Place is Not Ghana’: Gender and Rights Discourse Among Ghanaian Men and Women in Toronto Takyiwaa Manuh
Other Articles:
A ‘Somewhat Firm Policy’: The Role of the Gold Coast Judiciary in Implementing Slave Emancipation, 1874–1900 Trevor Getz
Colonial Ethnography and Political Reform: The Works of A. C. Duncan-Johnstone, R. S. Rattray, J. Eyre-Smith, and J. Guiness on Northern Ghana Carola Lentz
The Last Will and Testament of Kofi Sraha: A Note on Accumulation and Inheritance in Colonial Asante T. C. McCaskie
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Volume 1, 1998
‘Eating Kola’: The Pharmacological and Therapeutic Significance of Kola Nuts Edmund Abaka
Slavery and Abolition in the Gold Coast: Colonial Modes of Emancipation and African Initiatives Kwabena Akurang-Parry
Trokosi (Child Slavery) in Ghana: A Policy Approach Robert Kwame Ameh
Housing Conditions and Spatial Organization in Accra, 1950s–1990s Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang
Akwankwaa: Owusu Sekyere Agyeman in His Life and Times T. C. McCaskie
Transferring Power in Ghana: Some Thoughts on What the Archives Might Be Telling Us Richard Rathbone
The Diaries of A. C. Duncan-Johnstone: A Preliminary Analysis of British Involvement in the ‘Native Courts’ of Colonial Asante Victoria C. Tashjian
‘Unity and Progress’: Asante Politics Revisited Ivor G. Wilks
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