An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa.
Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso …

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that
using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse …

The Politics of Heritage in Africa offers a wide-ranging analysis of how heritage has been
defined in Africa and of the on-going significance of heritage work on the continent. In …

This paper examines the chieftaincy succession conflict in Dagbon, Northern Ghana. It
traces the history of the struggle for the kingship title between the two feuding clans, the …

African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style,
material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces …

While forms of authority that descend from social or cultural tradition are commonly
understood as archaic, traditional authorities often survive and occasionally even thrive …

The contemporary construction of the past is crucial for the successful vindication of political
rights in Africa. Often, however, more than a single past proves potentially valid as a claim to …

Leadership is a universally recognized concept whose practice and interpretation is
culturally framed. The fundamental thrust of this study is to examine the leadership journey …

Appointment of traditional authorities with an international migrant background has become
an important trend in Ghana. Such 'return chiefs' are expected to bring development and …

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 …