One of the most powerful cultural transformations of the 20th century has been the dramatic
expansion of Christianity outside of Europe. This unique historical process was facilitated by …

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 …

The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre
of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to …

When enslaved people became “mad,” they lost exchange value as labor capital on the
Atlantic market, as neither African nor European merchants considered the mentally …

Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships
between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State …

This essay studies changes to mortuary practices in colonial Gold Coast (southern Ghana)
beginning with the British state's creation of town cemeteries in the late nineteenth century. It …

Peki is an Ewe-speaking community in present-day southeastern Ghana. In the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, this community became a hub for the trade in enslaved people. To …

This book applies oral, archival and other interdisciplinary evidence from West Africa and
the Americas to analyses of new world Maroons, slaves and free blacks, examining a" Gold …

This study explored the interface between the abuses inherent in the sacred nature of the
Akan (a Ghanaian ethnic group) Chief and international human rights laws. It argued that the …

This article reconsiders the political organization of Fante, a leading state of the Gold Coast,
during the seventeenth century, mainly on the basis of contemporary European records. It …