Kola is God’s Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives, and the Kola Industry in Asante and the Gold Coast, c. 1920–1950 (Western African Studies) - Hardcover

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Kola is a “food-drug”—like coffee, tea, coca, and tobacco—a substance considered neither food nor medicine, but used to induce “flights of fancy.” It is incorporated into rites of passage and ceremonies to cement treaties and contracts; its medicinal properties were first recognized outside Africa in the twelfth century; and it is a legal and popular stimulant among West African Muslims.

Kola Is God's Gift brings together the legends and lore with the social, religious, medicinal, and economic importance of kola nuts. In addition, it delineates the place of kola in the political economy of Asante and the Gold Coast. In particular it looks at kola's contribution to the economic initiatives of the Hausa diaspora in West Africa.

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Edmund Abaka is an assistant professor of history at the University of Miami.

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“The kola trade illustrates some of the unexpected features of the economic history of West Africa that are also reshaping our understanding of its cultural past.... Highly recommended.”—International Journal of African Historical Studies

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  • PublisherOhio University Press
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 0821415735
  • ISBN 13 9780821415733
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages256

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