The politics of chieftaincy : authority and property in colonial Ghana, 1920-1950 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Naaborko (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
Series:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 61.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : contesting space and authority in a colonial capital
  • Situating Ga institutions in the European colonial milieu
  • Land legislation, commodification, and effects in Accra
  • Negotiating chieftaincy, the Ga stool, and colonial intervention
  • Succession disputes, the Ga state council, and the future of chieftaincy
  • Contesting property in Accra and its periurban locales
  • Conclusion.