The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of Ashanti

A Study of the Influence of Contemporary Social Changes on Ashanti Political Institutions
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-49227-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century

Originally published in 1951, this book provides an account of the traditional status and functions of the Asanti chief. The effects of British administration on the powers of the chief and his council are described, as are the tensions which the traditional political organization was subjected to by the requirements of modern administration. The author of this book was himself an Ashanti and was the first West African tobe appointed to the Colonial Adminstrative Service.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Busia, K. A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Constitutional Aspect of Chiefship 2. The Religious Aspect of Chiefship 3. Chiefship and Land Tenure 4. Administration and Justice 5. The Ashanti Union 6. British Rule and the Chief: Social Change 7. British Rule and the Chief: Local Government 8. The Ashanti Conderacy Council 9. The Chief Today

Über Autor(innen)

In 1969 K.A. Busia became Prime Minister of Ghana. While he was in Britain for a medical check-up, the army under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew his government on 13 January 1972. Busia remained in exile in England and returned to Oxford University, where he died from a heart attack in August 1978.[3]