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Our own way in this part of the world : biography of an African culture, community, and nation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Konadu, Kwasi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Donkor, Kofi, > Nana, > 1913-1995.
Healers > Ghana > Biography.
Traditional medicine > Ghana.
Ghana > History > To 1957.
Decolonization > Ghana.
Ghana > Social life and customs.
To 1957
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Libation : "matters connected with our culture"
  • Homelands : "in search of past events"
  • Tools of the trade : "I was a blacksmith...before I became [a healer]"
  • Medicine, marriage, and politics : "assist this state to have progress"
  • Independences : "never mingled himself in local politics"
  • Anthropologies of medicine and Africa : "when the Whiteman first came"
  • Uncertain moments and memory : "our ancestral spirits, come and have drink".