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Title: | The Development of Kwahu Business Enterprise in Ghana since 1874: An Essay in Recent Oral Tradition |
Author: | Garlick, Peter C. |
Year: | 1967 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 463-480 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | entrepreneurs Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Education and Oral Traditions |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/179831 |
Abstract: | This article grew out of an attempt to answer the question, 'Why is Kwahu business enterprise so important in Accra?'. It contains the testimony of older people in modern Ghana about economic activities of the past. The (Akan) are well known for their business activities. The history of Kwahu business activities can be traced to the Britis-Ashanti War of 1874 when slave-trade with the north was replaced by the rubber trade, which continued until 1914. Cocoa gave the Kwahu opportunities to sell imported goods in South-eastern Ghana. They began to settle for short periods in market towns. Several reasons made them, in the 1920s and 1930s, turn their trading attention to Accra. Today Accra is easily the most important place of Kwahu settlement outside Kwahu. The explanation for their commercial success is their tradition and capacities, and their search for economic opportunity. There is, however, little evidence that the Kwahu can provide the new entrepreneurial organization or capitel required by a developing country. Notes; map. |