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Title: | Christianity, Modernity and the Weight of Tradition in the Life of Asantehene Agyeman |
Author: | Akyeampong, Emmanuel |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 69 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 279-311 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | Ashanti polity biographies (form) History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft colonialism |
About person: | Nana Agyeman Prempeh I (1872-1931) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1161026 |
Abstract: | Much of what has been written on Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I (1888-1931) focuses on his career as the king of Asante (Ghana) in the context of British colonization in 1896 and the subsequent exile of the royal family to Elmina, Sierra Leone, and then to the Seychelles Islands. The king was allowed to return to Asante only in 1924. This article sheds some light on Prempeh's personal life, examining his interaction with Asante history and tradition, his life as a Christian, and his engagement with 'modernity'. It shows that Prempeh made the category of the educated, Christian Asante a legitimate social entity, and that he initiated a confrontation with Western influences that continues in contemporary Asante. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. |