Governance, Statecraft, and the Politics of Shrines in Colonial Ghana, 1876-1945.
Published In: International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2024, v. 57, n. 1. P. 15 1 of 3
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Authored By: Amponsah, David Kofi 3 of 3
Abstract
Toward the end of the nineteenth-century, British colonial officials began to monitor and suppress indigenous religious shrines in colonial Ghana. The attention to shrines was the result of a colonial discourse that positioned shrines as foil to the colonial state. Important to British officials, chiefs, and locals for different and sometimes shifting reasons, shrines became a key fulcrum for debating, formulating, asserting, and contesting ideas about governance, political authority, and statecraft in colonial Ghana. This article also shows the limits of a colonial regime in regulating African epistemologies, practices, and institutions, as well as the unique position of chiefs in the time of shrine suppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Source:International Journal of African Historical Studies. 2024/01, Vol. 57, Issue 1, p15
- Document Type:Article
- Subject Area:History
- Publication Date:2024
- ISSN:0361-7882
- Accession Number:180354857
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