ABSTRACT This study is primarily concerned with historical developments that cover a period of over three hundred years, with the purpose of establishing the evolution of a state system among the Gbagyi that inhabit an area referred to as the River Kaduna valley. It was however, not in doubt that the Gbagyi settlements along the River Kaduna never at the earliest times succeeded in forming large centralized political settlements. They were confederate states, or what is popularly referred to ...
The provision of modern health services was a legacy of colonial administration in Africa. Yet, little attention has been paid to the history of medical and health development in Africa, especially Ibadan, which benefited greatly from the colonial health policy. This study, therefore, examined the changing trends in the growth and development of colonial medical and health services in Ibadan between 1900 and 1960 with a view to highlighting the impact of colonial medicine in the city. A...
ABSTRACT This study examines the causes of the Nawuri-Gonja conflict, which broke out in 1991 over allodial land rights. In Alfai, as is the case of other Ghanaian societies, the modes of measuring allodial land rights are embedded in the historical traditions of the people. By right of autochthony and autonomy, allodial land rights in Alfai in the pre-colonial period resided in the Nawuri. However, Alfai’s encounters with the colonial enterprise led to the evolution of new constructs of al...
ABSTRACT Jukun-Tiv relation has increasingly gone through disturbing phases over the years, especially as from the inception of colonial rule in the area. Every turning point appears to alter the level of cooperation between the two communities in the present day Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State. This unfolding trend gives the impression that the two communities never enjoyed peaceful intercourse. This assumption has been examined and proved to be erroneous. A very thorough appra...
ABSTRACT This study examines the nature and structure of post-conflict peacebuilding in Liberia and Sierra Leone since 2000. It focuses specifically on peacebuilding process in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Previous researches on peacebuilding as a tool of conflict management have generated a lot of questions in academic circles. This is because there is a disagreement among experts on how peacebuilding works. The difficulty has been compounded by the fact that discussions on peacebuilding are o...
Abstract An ethnic minority ―is not the same...as a party, a trades union, or a pressure group. It is akin, rather, to a class, or an age group, or an interest group. (Crowley, 107) This thesis addresses the negotiation of Identity from the historical perspective. It seeks to show how Kotokoli, Mossi and other African migrants to Rural Asante shaped and expressed their sense of be identity from 1930 to 1996. The hypothesis to be explored by this research is that identity among migrants to a...
ABSTRACT Sports was an important element of the colonial administration’s attempt to control the leisure life of the people of Gold Coast. After independence, the relationship between sports and politics in the administration of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) cannot be underestimated. Sports came to represent an important tool in government’s effort in instilling national pride and unity among Ghanaians. This study examines how football became arguably the most popular among the ...
The evolution of the state system in the River Kaduna Valley can be defined as the organisation of semi-autonomous ethnic groups into small political units. The political units were governed by a clearly defined structure of state apparatus, starting from the household, compound, village and the township levels, under the headship of the Etsu. 1 These political units were established about the early and middle of 181h century. The states were made up of ten semi-independent political ...
ABSTRACT Whilst the dominant narratives in historiography consider markets to be male dominated spaces in pre-colonial Cape Coast, this study contends that women became the principal agents of trading activities during the colonial period. With the increasing visibility of women in market spaces during the colonial period, women, both elite and ordinary, played an active role in the shaping of the colonial urban town of Cape Coast whilst conducting their trading activities. Through the analys...
ABSTRACT People of the savanna ecological zone had frequently found themselves under the control of neighbouring chiefdoms and states before and throughout the colonial period. The Konkomba of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (Ghana) were such a people. Throughout much of their history, in both the pre-colonial and colonial periods, they have come under the political control of the Dagomba, Nanumba, Mamprusi, Gonja, Asante, and later, Germans, French and British. However, throughou...
ABSTRACT This thesis, “The Development of Agricultural Education in Colonial Ghana: 1874-1957”, explores the evolution and change of agricultural education in colonial Ghana. It examines the structures that supported the development of agricultural education and how such structures were reorganized to meet new challenges that faced agricultural education in the colony. The period of the study, 1874-1957, is significant because it is the time frame of British colonialism in the Gold Coas...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines the development of architecture in Kumase from 1874 to 1960. In other words, the study focuses on the rebuilding of the built environment of Kumase from 1874 to 1960. Using qualitative evaluation of archival documents, interviews with Asante chiefs, owners of houses, heads of families, trustees of households etc., and some secondary sources of historical information, this work discusses the traditional architecture of Kumase and, how the British colonial governme...
ABSTRACT Using extensively oral sources through interviews and archival materials, this study examines the origins, migrations and settlements of one of the major Akan states, the Twifo, between the periods 1600 and 1987. Also examined is the Twifo factor in the political dispensation of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in the 19th century as well as the economic impact the arrival of the Twifo had on the Central region and the economy of the Gold Coast as a whole. The aim is to bring to light t...
ABSTRACT Before the introduction of conventional midwifery, Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) or indigenous midwives were the only maternal healthcare providers. With the introduction of conventional midwifery came the introduction of policies to scrutinize the practices of TBAs. These policies depicted efforts to ban TBAs and eradicate the reliance of pregnant women on TBAs. No research has explored policies affecting TBAs and how they affected their status as the original providers of mat...
ABSTRACT The work takes a critical look at the life and times of Dr. Hilla Limann, President of the Third Republic of Ghana. The thesis offers readers an insight into the life, struggle, works, successes and the failures of Hilla Limann. The work endeavours to examine the life of Hilla Limann and his meteoric rise to power in 1979. Through his own persuasion, determination and hard work, Limann pursued the educational ladder outside Ghana and became a well-educated man. The study discovered ...