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| Title: | Aspects of Precolonial Akan Economy |
| Author: | Daaku, K.Y. |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 235-247 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ghana |
| Subjects: | subsistence economy Akan polities trade History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/217516 |
| Abstract: | Akan economy was based on trade (salt, forest products, gold, slaves). One of the interesting features of the Akan trade was that it was never state administered; the rulers never monopolized trade. The egalitarian system of land tenure opened up trade for all and militated against the emergence of a landowning class which would have capitalized on the land and turned the Akan states into modern capitalist societies. Notes, maps. |
