The Journal of the Ghana Studies Council
Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Stephan Miescher, Editors
A peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal of scholarly work on Ghana, the country and its people. Appears annually.
A peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal of scholarly work on Ghana, the country and its people. Appears annually.
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Emmanuel Akyeampong (Harvard University)
Jean Allman (Washington University)
Gareth Austin (London School of Economics)
Lynne Brydon (University of Birmingham)
Francis Dodoo (University of Ghana and University of Maryland)
Takyiwaa Manuh (University of Ghana)
T. C. McCaskie (SOAS, University of London)
Birgit Meyer (Free University, Amsterdam)
David Owusu-Ansah (James Madison University)
Mansah Prah (University of Cape Coast)
Richard Rathbone (Emeritus, SOAS, University of London)
Ray Silverman (University of Michigan)
Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana)
Ivor Wilks (Emeritus, Northwestern University)
Larry Yarak (Texas A&M University)
Edmund ABAKA, "'Eating Kola': The Pharmacological and Therapeutic Significance of Kola Nuts," pp. 1-10.
Kwabena AKURANG-PARRY, "Slavery and Abolition in the Gold Coast: Colonial Modes of Emancipation and African Initiatives," pp. 11-34.
Robert Kwame AMEH, "Trokosi (Child Slavery) in Ghana: A Policy Approach," pp. 35-62.
Kwadwo KONADU-AGYEMANG, "Housing Conditions and Spatial Organization in Accra, 1950s-1990s," pp. 63-90."
T. C. MCCASKIE, "Akwankwaa: Owusu Sekyere Agyeman in His Life and Times," pp. 91-122.
Richard RATHBONE, "Transferring Power in Ghana: Some Thoughts on What the Archives Might Be Telling Us," pp. 123-33.
Victoria C. TASHJIAN, "The Diaries of A. C. Duncan-Johnstone: A Preliminary Analysis of British Involvement in the 'Native Courts' of Colonial Asante," pp. 135-50.
Ivor G. WILKS, "'Unity and Progress': Asante Politics Revisited," pp. 151-79.
Larry W. YARAK, "Editor's Introduction," pp. 1-3.
Special Section: Contemporary Ghanaian Migration. Guest Editor Takyiwaa Manuh.
Takyiwaa MANUH, "Introduction: Contemporary Ghanaian Migration," pp. 5-11.
Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang, "Travel Patterns and Coping Strategies of Ghanaian Migrants in Toronto," pp. 13-34.
Baffour TAKYI, "The African Diaspora: A Socio-Demographic Portrait of the Ghanaian Migrant Community in the United States of America," pp. 35-56.
Stephan F. MIESCHER and Leslie ASHBAUGH, "Been-To Visions: Transnational Linkages Among a Ghanaian Dispersed Community in the Twentieth Century," pp. 57-76.
Takyiwaa MANUH, "'This Place is Not Ghana': Gender and Rights Discourse Among Ghanaian Men and Women in Toronto," pp. 77-95.
Other Articles:
Trevor, GETZ, "A 'Somewhat Firm Policy': The Role of the Gold Coast Judiciary in Implementing Slave Emancipation, 1874-1900," pp. 97-117.
Carola LENTZ, "Colonial Ethnography and Political Reform: The Works of A. C. Duncan-Johnstone, R. S. Rattray, J. Eyre-Smith, and J. Guiness on Northern Ghana," pp. 119-169.
T. C. MCCASKIE, "The Last Will and Testament of Kofi Sraha: A Note on Accumulation and Inheritance in Colonial Asante," pp. 171-181.
Larry W. YARAK, "Editor's Introduction," p. 1.
Emmanuel AKYEAMPONG, "Asante at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," pp. 3-12.
Ivor WILKS, "Asante at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight," pp. 13-59.
T. C. MCCASKIE, "The Golden Stool at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight," pp. 61-96.
Nana ARHIN BREMPONG, "The Role of Nana Yaa Asantewaa in the 1900 Asante War of Resistance," pp. 97-110.
Adu BOAHEN, "Yaa Asantewaa in the Yaa Asantewaa War of 1900: Military Leader or Symbolic Head?" pp. 111-135.
Pashington OBENG, "Yaa Asantewaa's War of Independence: Honoring and Ratifying an Historic Pledge," pp. 137-152.
Lynda DAY, "Long Live the Queen!: The Yaa Asantewaa Centenary and the Politics of History," pp. 153-166.
Larry W. YARAK, "Editor's Introduction" pp. 1-2.
Special Section: Moral Discourses and Public Spaces in the Fourth Republic. Guest Editors: Birgit Meyer and Paul Nugent.
Birgit MEYER and Paul NUGENT, "Moral Discourses and Public Spaces in the Fourth Republic," pp. 3-5.
Akosua K. DARKWAH, "Aid or Hindrance? Faith Gospel Theology and Ghana’s Incorporation into the Global Economy," pp. 7-29.
Rijk VAN DIJK, "Contesting Silence: The Ban on Drumming and the Musical Politics of Pentecostalism in Ghana," pp. 31-64.
Birgit MEYER, "Money, Power and Morality: Popular Ghanaian Cinema in the Fourth Republic," pp. 65-84.
Paul NUGENT, "The Things That Money Can Buy: Chieftaincy, the Media and the 1996 Elections in Hohoe-North Constituency," pp. 85-106.
Other articles:
Joseph K. Adjaye, "The Performativity of Akan Libations: An Ethnopoetic Construction of Reality," pp. 107-38.
Stefano BONI, "A Precolonial, Political History of the Sefwi Wiawso Oman," pp. 139-68.
Kwamena KWANSAH-AIDOO, "Interpersonal Networks and the Dissemination of the Mass Media's Environmental Agenda in Ghana," pp. 169-97.
Larry W. YARAK, "Editor's Introduction" pp. 1-2.
Special Section: Teaching and Learning in Ghana. Guest Editor: Akosua Adomako Ampofo.
Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO, "Introduction: Teaching and Learning in Ghana—Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," pp. 3-20.
Francis AGBODEKA, "Education in Ghana: Yesterday and Today," pp. 21-42.
Kwasi ANSU-KYEREMEH, "Mass Education and Communication in Ghana: A Globalization Perspective," pp. 43-59.
David OWUSU-ANSAH, "History of Islamic Education in Ghana: An Overview," pp. 61-81.
Mansah PRAH, "Gender Issues in Ghanaian Tertiary Institutions: Women Academics and Administrators at Cape Coast University," pp. 83-122.
Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO, "Does Women’s Education Matter in Childbearing Decision Making? A Case Study from Urban Ghana," pp. 123-157.
Other Articles:
Arhin BREMPONG and Mariano PAVANELLO, "The Bureaucratization of Traditional Authority under Colonial Rule: The Asante Stool Treasuries, 1927-1944," pp. 159-175.
Gérard CHOUIN, "Sacred Groves as Historical and Archaeological Markers in Southern Ghana," pp. 177-196.
David DORWARD, "'Nigger Driver Brothers': Australian Colonial Racism in the Early Gold Coast Mining Industry," pp. 197-214.
Ivor WILKS, "'Mallams Do Not Fight With the Heathen': A Note on Suwarian Attitudes to Jihad," pp. 215-230.
Sjaak VAN DER GEEST, "The Performativity of Akan Libations: A Comment," pp. 231-232.
Takyiwaa MANUH and Lynne BRYDON, "Editorial," pp. 1-3.
Holger WEISS, "Crop Failures, Food Shortages and Colonial Famine Relief Policies in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast," pp. 5-58.
Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO, "The Sex Trade, Globalization and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa," pp. 59-90.
Takyiwaa MANUH, "Ghanaian Migrants in Toronto, Canada: Care of Kin and Gender Relations," pp. 91-107.
Susan BENSON, "Connecting with the Past, Building the Future: African Americans and Chieftaincy in Southern Ghana," pp. 109-133.
Jennifer HASTY, "'Forget the Past or Go Back to the Slave Trade': Trans-Africanism and Popular History in Postcolonial Ghana," pp. 135-161.
Trevor GETZ, "Re-evaluating the 'Colonization' of Akyem Abuakwa: Amoako Atta, the Basel Mission, and the Gold Coast Courts, 1867-1887," pp. 163-180.
Takyiwaa MANUH & Lynne BRYDON, "Editors' Note," p. 1. Ray SILVERMAN, "Guest Editor's Introduction," pp. 2-9. Wyatt MACGAFFEY, "Earth Shrines and the Politics of Memory in Dagbon," pp. 11-24. Emmanuel AKYEAMPONG, "Memories of Place and Belonging: Identity, Citizenship, and the Lebanese in Ghana," pp. 25-42. Anne HUGON, "Korle Bu and the Midwives Hostel as a Site of memory for Ghanaian Pupil Midwives, 1930s-1950s," pp. 43-58. Brempong OSEI-TUTU, "'Slave Castles' and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Ghanaian and African American Perspectives," pp. 59-78. Christine Mullen KREAMER, "The Politics of Memory: Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Exhibition 'Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade'," pp. 79-91. Sue BENSON & T.C. MCCASKIE, "Asen Praso in History and Memory," pp. 93-113. Osei-Mensah ABORAMPAH, "Encyclopedia of the Dead: Transgenerational Memories and Cultural Transmission Among the Akan of Ghana," pp.115-135. Mansah PRAH, "'In Blessed Memory': (Re)presentations of the Lives of the Departed in Ghanaian Funeral Programs," pp. 137-48. Takyiwaa MANUH & Lynne BRYDON, "Editors' Note," p. 1. Leo BARRINGTON, "Education, Literacy, Training, and Propaganda in a Ghanaian Border Town," pp. 3-38. J. BOACHIE-ANSAH, "Excavations at Techiman, Brong-Ahafo," pp. 39-102. Richard GLOTZER and Lila ENGBERG, "Teacher Trainees in Ghana in the early 1960s: Women and the Teaching of Home Science," pp. 103-126. Emmanuel LARYEA and Kwamena KWANSAH-AIDOO, "Going, Going, Gone! Implications of the Repeal of Criminal Libel and Sedition Laws in Ghana," pp. 127-168. Brigid M. SACKEY, "Charismatism, Women, and Testimonies: Religion and Popular Culture in Ghana," pp. 169-196. Lynne BRYDON & Takyiwaa MANUH, "Editors' Note," p. 1-3. Larry W. YARAK, "The Dutch Gold-Mining Effort in Ahanta, 1841-9," pp. 5-23. Sara BERRY, "'Natives' and 'Strangers' on the Outskirts of Kumasi," pp. 25-59. Isidore LOBNIBE, "Legitimating a Contested Boundary: Northern Ghanaian Immigrants and the Historicity of Land Conflict in Ahyiayem, Brong Ahafo," pp. 61-90. Karen LAUTERBACH, "Wealth and Worth: Pastorship and Neo-Pentecostalism in Kumasi," pp. 91-121. Akosua K. DARKWAH & Alexina ARTHUR, "(A)sexualizing Ghanaian Youth?: A Case Study of Virgin Clubs in Accra and Kumasi," pp. 123-49. Agnes Atia APUSIGAH, "Transcending Gendered Economics: Grassroots Women's Agency in the Informal Sector of the Ghanaian Economy," pp. 151-76. Holger WEISS, "The Making of an African Bolshevik: Bankole Awooner Renner in Moscow, 1925-1928," pp. 177-220. Notes on Contributors, p. 221. Submissions to Ghana Studies are especially welcome. Manuscripts should not exceed about 12,000 words in length, including all footnotes/endnotes and references. Citation style should preferably follow the guidelines in the Journal of African History. Other style formats are also acceptable so long as they are consistently applied. Please send THREE copies of your manuscript, DOUBLE-SPACED throughout (including all reference matter), and an electronic copy as an uncompressed email attachment (preferably in MS Word format) to: Or: Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410 Eectronic file versions should have the footnotes/endnotes and any list of references embedded in the manuscript text so that the work comprises a single file. Any questions about these procedures may be directed to the editor.
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Table of Contents, Volume 8 (2005):
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Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Editor, Ghana Studies
Institute of African Studies
P.O. Box LG 73
University of Ghana
Legon, Ghana
Email: adomako@ug.edu.gh; adomako@gmail.com
Stephan Miescher
Editor, Ghana Studies
Department of History
University of California
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