Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo (African Studies, Series Number 9) - Hardcover

Dunn, John; Robertson, A. F.

9780521202701: Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo (African Studies, Series Number 9)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521202701 ISBN 13: 9780521202701

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1974

First published in 1973, this is a study of the historical relationship between the system of colonial control and local social and political structures in the Ahafo region of Ghana since the arrival of the British. There has been much academic writing about African policies in the past but it has not on the whole been very successful in illuminating to outsiders what political conflicts in African countries are concerned with or what political actors in Africa understand themselves to be doing. This is particularly true in the case of the political actions of those who, like the great majority of the population of Africa, are not members of elites educated in European languages. The authors of this book, a political scientist and an anthropologist, have attempted to convey enough of the context and complexity of political intention and action in one traditional area of Ghana for someone who knows nothing about Africa to begin to understand what politics there means.

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First published in 1973, this is a study of the historical relationship between the system of colonial control and local social and political structures in the Ahafo region of Ghana since the arrival of the British. The authors have conveyed enough context for someone who knows nothing about Africa to begin to understand what politics there means.

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