The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa /

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectual The African Gold Coast writer and statesman J.E.Casely Hayford (1866-1930) was a key figure in liberal anticolonial thought as well as African and British imper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Jeanne-Marie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2026]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Important Dates
  • Map. J. E. Casely Hayford's Gold Coast. (Map created by Ron Draddy)
  • Introduction The "How" Behind the "Who" of Gold Coast Letters
  • chapter one A Matter-of-Fact Kind of Man
  • chapter two A Gold Coast Constitution
  • chapter three The Jurisdiction of Morals
  • Epilogue. Where in the World Is J. E. Casely Hayford?
  • notes
  • works cited
  • index
  • a note on the type