African historiography has long acknowledged that the impacts of the trans-Atlantic slave
trade on African communities reached far beyond the loss of life and freedom that occurred …

This dissertation explores how the Fante society of southern Ghana reconfigured its social,
economic and political institutions during the 18 th century, and how these developments …

The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal
importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan …

This essay argues that the history of southern Ghana exhibits far more continuity from the
era of the slave trade to the time of British colonization in the late-nineteenth century than …

For many centuries millions of African slaves, the vast majority of whom came from tropical
Africa, were transported to Arabia, Asia, and the Americas. The repercussions of this …

In an insightful article on the collection of oral history on the experience of slavery, Martin
Klein commented on how those of slave descent in West Africa and North America respond …

David M. Gordon highland watershed of the Zambezi and southern Zaire river systems forms
the backbone of the south-central African interior. Composed of savanna woodlands, the …

The exhibition “Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade” opened in December 1994 at
the Cape Coast Castle Museum in Ghana (Figure 1). The exhibition, designed to last for …

Introduction Ghanaians have long perceived African Americans' as a factor in Ghana's socio-
economic development. Soon after Ghana's inde-pendence President Nkrumah invited …

Fante Expansion Reconsidered of a more effective political unity, after a period in which
Fante's military power had been undermined by internal divisions. This newfound unity, in …