The historical and political legacies of the transformations of the (Dutch) Sekondi socio-economic landscape during the early twentieth century

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Title:	The historical and political legacies of the transformations of the (Dutch) Sekondi socio-economic landscape during the early twentieth century
Author:	Pichillo, Giancarlo
Year:	2008
Periodical:	Ghana Studies (ISSN 1536-5514)
Volume:	11
Pages:	7-45
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	chieftaincy succession Akan polities political history 1900-1999
Abstract:	This paper presents preliminary findings of an ongoing research project in political anthropology exploring the contemporary and historically constituted power relations inside the Abrahyiam Ebiradzi royal family that holds the paramount stool of Sekondi, in the southwestern coastal area of modern Ghana. The project focuses on the legacies of the transformations brought about by early colonialism in the social, economic, and political structure of the ex-Dutch Sekondi polity, with particular attention to last-century and contemporary stool succession disputes and practices surrounding the destoolment of chiefs. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]