Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in northern Ghana /

This book provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana. This book shows how the history commonly assumed by scholars has been shaped by the prej...

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Main Author: MacGaffey, Wyatt
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
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