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Title:Different ideas of borders and border construction in Northern Ghana: historical and anthropological perspectives
Author:Casentini, GiuliaISNI
Year:2014
Periodical:Ghana Studies (ISSN 1536-5514)
Volume:17
Pages:177-202
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:boundaries
traditional polities
Dagomba
Nanumba
Konkomba
1900-1949
Abstract:In this article, the author reconstructs the British process of demarcating borders in the eastern part of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, the contemporary Northern Region of Ghana, during the first half of the twentieth century. She is particularly concerned with districts in which Konkomba, Nanumba and Dagomba predominated. Building from archival, ethnographic, and oral sources, she explores contemporary conceptions of borders and their historical context and evolution. The author focuses on spatial and territorial issues; that is to say, how the contemporary international border and internal boundaries has been delimited and constructed through the imposition of European models and the interaction of different local representations and perceptions of space. Her goal has been to understand how and through what process local political equilibriums became so fragile. She also gives prominence to the agency of African chiefs and leaders, which is too often neglected when one talks about African boundaries. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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