AKAN STUDIES COUNCIL

NEWSLETTER

NUMBER 1 September 1989

CO-CHAIRS' STATEMENT This first issue of the Newsletter is being sent by to everyone on the original list, as we really do Judith Timyan and want to include the widest audience possible. Raymond A. Silverman However, beginning with the next issue only mem­ bers (i.e. those who have returned a completed Here, finally, is the first issue of the Akan questionnaire) will receive Akan Studies Council Studies Council Newsletter. As we promised, we correspondence. What we are really after is have made Akan history the thematic focus of this information on the scholars, specialists and gen­ inaugural issue, with statements on the current eral audience who make up the Akan constituency, state of research in the various regions. We would so this is not intended as an exclusionary move like to thank Robert Addo-Fening, Jean-Noel but rather as an incentive for you to send in your Loucou, Gareth Austin, Dolly Maier, Jean-Pierre completed questionnaires. Chauveau and Claude-Helene Perrot for taking the As stated in our earlier correspondence, it is time to prepare their state-of-the-field statements. due to the generosity of Peter Shinnie, who has The inevitable difficulties involved in getting a agreed to bear the cost of duplicating and mailing new organization started are undoubtedly com­ the Newsletter, that we do not have to request pounded by the facts that we are addressing a dues from all of our members at this point in time. multi-national, multi-regional membership and are Nevertheless, it was decided at the 1988 Akan attempting to make the Newsletter bilingual. To Studies Council meeting that it would be prudent get the Akan Studies Council off the ground we to establish a small fund that could be used to have sent out two mailings-letters and question­ cover miscellaneous expenses. To avoid the naires to a total of 110 individuals. As of this date trouble associated with money transfers and cur­ we have received responses from 57 of these rency conversions, especially for relatively small people. The current membership of the ASC, a list amounts, it was decided that $5.00 be requested of which is found in the Newsletter, is composed of from those members residing in North America those who returned a completed questionnaire. only. Members living in Africa or Europe will be For all of you who have not yet responded and exempt from paying these dues for the time being. who wish to join the Akan Studies Council, a copy of the questionnaire is included at the end of the •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Newsletter. We have also included a list of all the ASC Newsletter individuals to whom we sent letters and question­ editors: Ray Silverman & Judith Timyan naires so if you know of someone who is not on production: African Studies Center, that list who might be interested in joining the ASC Michigan State University please pass along the questionnaire or ask them to distribution: Peter Shinnie contact either Judith Timyan or Ray Silverman. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• To date only ten members living in the U.S. or STATE OF THE FIELD: HISTORY Canada have sent in their $5.00. To those who have not: please send a check made out to "Akan La Recherche sur l'Histoire des Akan de Studies Council" to Ray Silverman. Thank you. Cote d'lvoire We received from our membership only a by single announcement to be included in this first Jean-Noel Loucou Newsletter. If any of you wish to publicize an Universite Nationale de Cote d'lvoire event, solicit information from other members, or bring the membership's attention to a particular Les Akan de Cote d'lvoire torment le groupe issue, please feel free to submit an announcement. ethnique le plus important du pays. lis sont com­ Finally, we would like to remind you that the poses des Abron, des Agni, des Baoule et de Ia second meeting of the Akan Studies Council will quasi-totallite d es groupes dits lagunaires. Leur be held during the upcoming African Studies Asso­ histoire a fait l'objet de nombreuses etudes ciation meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. The meeting mem~es aussi bien par des chercheurs ivoiriens will take place on Saturday, November 4, 1:00-2:30 que des chercheurs etrangers. Le present papier p.m. in the English Suite of the Hyatt Regency fait sommairement l'etat des recherches. ' Hotel. If there are any items you would like to have L'etude du peuplement est mieux precisee included on the aggenda please contact either Ray grace a Ia these de Yao Anan (1984), a l'ouvrage et Silverman or Judith Timyan by November 1. We a !'article de Jean Noel Loucou (1984 et 1986a). hope to see a good contingent of you there. La civilisation, notamment les poids a peser I' or et Hopefully, future meetings of the ASC will be able le langage des tambours, est decrite dans deux to be held in other regions. ouvrages de G. Niangoran-Bouah (1981 et 1984- . Any correspondence concerning the ASC 1987). should be addressed to either Ray Silverman Les autres etudes sont des monographies [Department of Art, Michigan State University, East relatives aux differents groupes. Ainsi Albert Able Lansing Ml 48824 (USA)] or Judith Timyan (1978) retrace l'histoire et !'organisation politique (International Center for Research on Women, des Aboure. H. Diabate (1984 et 1986) etudie le ~ 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC royaume Sanwi de meme que D. Kadja (1975). Sie 20036 (USA)]. Koffi (1976) aborde l'histoire et Ia societe des Agni- Diabe. Les Baoule sont etudies par J.N. Loucou (1982-1985 et 1986b), A. Kacou (1973 et 1975) et G. Kouadio-Tiacoh (1983). Les Agni du Moronou ANNOUNCEMENTS ont ete etudies par A. Brou Tanoh (1970, B. Comoe-Krou (1977), Aka Kouame (1979) et S-P AKAN STUDIES COUNCIL MEETING M'bra-Ekanza (1983). Surles Ebrie, il n'existe pas Our next meeting will be held in conjunction with encore d'ouvrage de synthese. On peut toutefois the ASA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The signaler les articles de G. Niangoran-Bouah (1969) meeting will take place on Saturday, November 4, et de Yao Anan (1979). Le groupe Nzema a fait 1 :00-2:30 p.m. in the English Suite of the Hyatt l'objet d'une recente these elaboree par Allou Regency Hotel. Please try to attend. Kouame (1988).

From Dennis M. Warren, Iowa State University: The ex-Omanhene of Techiman, Nana Akumfi Ameyaw II, passed away while on a visit to Toronto References last January. Able, Albert, 1978. Histoire et tradition politique du pays Aboure. Abidjan: lmprimerie Nationale. Aka, Kouame, 1979. Origine et evolution du Ngatianou jusqu'a Ia colonisation. Memoire

ASC Newsletter page2 de maitrise d'Hi"stoire inedit, Abidjan, Niangoran-Bouah, Georges, 1981. Introduction a Universtte Nationale de Cote d'lvoire. Ia dummologie. Abidjan: Editions G.N.B. Allou Kouame, Rene, 1988. L 'Etat de Benyinli et Ia Niangoran-Bouah, Georges, 1984-1987. L'Univers naissance du peuple Nzema, XVe-X/Xe siecle. akan des poids a peser l'orjThe Akan world These de 3e cycle d'Histoire inedite, Abidjan, of gold weights. 3 volumes. Abid­ Universite Nationale de Cote d'lvoire. jan:NEA/MLB. Brou Tanoh, Antoine, 1970. Le Moronou des M'Bra Ekanza, Simon-Pierre. 1983. Mutations migrations akan a Ia guerre Agni-Baoule. d'une societe rurale. Les Agni du Moronou. Memoire de Maitrise d'Histoire inedit, Paris, 18e siecle-1939. These de Doctorat es-Lettres Sorbonne. inedite, Aix-en-Provence, Universite de Comoe-Krou, Barthelemy, 1977. Le jeu dans Ia Provence. societe traditionnelle Agni. These de Doctorat Sie, Koffi, 1976. Les Agni-Diabe, histoire et es-Lettres inedite, Paris, Universite Rene Des­ societe. These de doctorat de 3e cycle cartes. inedite, Paris, Universite de Paris I. Diabate, Henriette, 1984. Le Sannvin. Un royaume Yao Anan, Elisab~th, 1979. "Un bref aper~u du Akan de Ia Cote d'lvoire 1701-1901. Sources groupe lagunaire, • Kasabya Kasa, Bulletin de orales et histoire. These de Doctorat es­ 1'/nstitut d'Ethno-sociologie 14. Lettres inedite, Paris, Universite de Paris I. Yao Anan, Elisabeth, 1984. Les mouvements Diabate, Henriette, 1986. Le Sannvin. Sources migratoires des populations Akan du Ghana orales et histoire. Un essai methodologique. en Cote d'lvoire, des origines a nos jours. Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Africaines. These de 3e cycle de sociologie inedite, Abid­ Kacou, Alfred, 1973. Sagesse africaine au pays jan, Universite Nationale de Cote d'lvoire. Baoule. Mulhouse Editions Salvator. Kacou, Alfred, 1975. Le Sacrifice baoule. These de doctorat en Sciences religieuses inedite. Akan History Research in Ghana Strasbourg, Faculte de theologie Catholique. by Kadja, Daniel, 1975. Structure de Ia societe Sanwi. Robert Addo-Fening Desintegration et Resistance. These de doc­ University of Ghana tarat de 3e cycle de Sociologie, Paris, Sor­ bonne. After a period of dormancy resulting from the Kouadio-Tiacoh, Gabriel, 1983. Monographie de Ia economic difficulties of the mid-1980s and the Commune de Toumodi. Origine et Histoire. attendant dearth of publication outlets and the Abidjan: lmprimerie nationale. 'brain-drain', Akan history research in Ghana is Loucou, Jean-Noel, 1982. "La mathematique chez showing signs of recovery especially at the les Baoule de Cote d'lvoire, • Annales de University of Ghana, Legon. The refreshing thing I'Universite d'Abidjan (serie I Histoire) IX. about current Akan research is its scope. Loucou, Jean-Noel, 1984. Histoire de Ia Cote Up to about 1970 Akan history research d'lvoire Tome 1: La formation des peuples. focussed almost exclusively on Asante and her Abidjan: Ceda. one time satellite, Akwamu. The works of Boahen, Loucou, Jean-Noel, 1986a. "Le peuplement de Ia Wilks, Fynn and Daaku in these areas are well Cote d'lvoire. Problemas et perspectives de known. since the 1970s, however, considerable recherche," Annales de I'Universite d'Abidjan attention is being paid to the histories of other (serie I Histoire) XV. Akan states, especially Akuapem, Fante and Loucou, Jean-Noel, 1986b. "La notion de personne Akyem. chez les Baoule•, Archives de Ia Tradition Professor J.K Fynn of the Department of His­ Africaine. Abidjan. tory, Legon, has been engaged for some time in Niangoran-Bouah, Georges, 1969. "Les Ebrie et the collection of the traditional histories of the leur organisation politique traditionnelle," Fante States. He has just completed the manu­ Annales de I'Universite d'Abidjan (serie F script of a major study on the early history of the Ethno-sociologie) I. Fante titled, The Fante of Ghana c16D0-1874. This

ASC Newsletter page3 work is awaiting publication by Ghana Universities Akan Historical Studies in Britain 1 Press. Professor Fynn's latest publication, ·The by Political System of the Fante of Ghana during the Gareth Austin pre-Colonial Period" [Universitas, val. 9, November London School of Economics 1987, Legan] examines the validity of the long-held and Political Science view that the Fante as a people possessed no recognizable political structure in pre-colonial The brevity of this statement requires that it times. be mainly a structured and annotated directory of Dr. R. Addo-Fening, also of the Department of current research, rather than a genuine examina­ History, specializes in the history of Akyem tion of where we are and where we ought to be Abuakwa. His latest publications in this field are going. It is a personal survey, and I cannot "Customary Land Tenure System in Akyem guarantee what I earnestly hope, namely that I Abuakwa [Universitas, val. 9, November 1987, have not misrepresented the direction of anyone's Legan] and "The Akim or 'Achim' in the 17th work, still less omitted to mention it altogether.2 Century and 18th Century Historical Contexts: Though my focus is research based in the U.K., I Who Were They?" [Research Review, N.S., val. 4, would also like to draw the attention of colleagues no. 2, 1988, Institute of African Studies, Legan]. outside Europe to contributions from scholars Currently he is engaged in a biographical study of based, respectively, in Germany and Sweden. Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, 1881-1943. Sadly, I have not found any research going on Asante continues to receive attention in Akan here on the history of the Akan peoples of Cote history research. Professor Kwame Arhin of the d'lvoire.3 It is to be hoped that the formation of the Institute of African Studies is undertaking a study Akan Studies Council will encourage a rectification titled "the political economy of the expansionist of the long-standing, and ever more anomalous, state". This study, with Asante and Dagomba as "colonial" division of labour between French and the focus, seeks to discover the role of the state in British scholars. economic development as a basis for assessing This survey is organised in three sections. But the significance of colonial rule. before I go any further, I would like to dedicate this Mrs. Akosua Perbi, of the Department of His­ short essay to the memory of Marion Johnson. We tory has embarked on a study of domestic slavery all miss her generous personality, and though her in Asante between the 18th and 20th centuries death in February 1988 has reduced the quality under two themes: (a) the effects of the trans­ Atlantic slavery on domestic slavery in Asante in the 18th and 19th centuries; and (b) the 'slavery 1. I would like to thank David Killingray, Tom McCaskie, and slur' in Asante in the 20th century. The latter study Anne Thurston for information. I owe a particular debt to Ray Jenkins for his detailed letter and enclosures. I also thank aims at discovering the extent to which "slave Richard Rathbone for information and comments on the draft origins" have affected peoples' chances in matters of this piece. of inheritance of stool and property. The Guan, an ethnic group whose history has 2. Disciplinary boundaries overlap, and are in any case invidious. But I must draw a line somewhere, in order not to hither to been subsumed under Akan history, are anticipate surveys of other disciplines which are to appear in being seriously studied under the aegis of the later issues of this Newsletter. "Akanist" historians writing in Guan Congress. The Congress has the U.K have published little recently about the period since plans to pub­ independence. So this mini-survey covers work confined to, or lish in the near future a number of research papers "rooted" in, colonial and pre-colonial times; whether the on Guan history in a projected Journal of the Guan authors call themselves historians or not. Historical Society of Ghana. 3. There is something of a tradition of economists contrasting It is hoped that the present trend will lvorian and Ghanaian economic policies since independence, continue. most recently Teal 1986, and Richard Crook is currently researching aspects of lvorian politics. I have begun a modest investigation of cross-border comparisons in the history of cocoa farming In Akan communities, and have made two short orientation visits to Cote d'lvoire. But as yet I do not plan to conduct major primary research there.

ASC Newsletter page4 and range of work in progress on Akan history, in the ministries. The Ghana government, with the obviously her influence will continue to be strong assistance of the Association of Commonwealth in discussions of the many topics she tackled. Of Archivists and Records Managers, plan to establish her last projects, the one with the most "Akan• con­ a number of "Records Centres" as provisional tent was her work on domestic slavery and the repositories for files transferred from the ministries. internal slave trade, and - in collaboration with Ray This summer a 4-week workshop is being held in Dumett - on their suppression (Johnson 1986, Accra to train archivists for this project, with parti­ Dumett and Johnson 1988). A memorial volume is cipation from the University of Ghana, the being edited by David Henige and Tom McCaskie. University of lbadan, and Dr. Anne Thurston of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of 1. Primary Sources: Their Provision and Annota­ London. tion Since Lynn Garrett's thesis (Garrett 1981), 2. New Analyses direct contributions to the analysis of the "early" In a series of major articles Tom McCaskie history of the Akan have been lacking over here. has sought to change the perspectives of his­ However, in Germany Adam Jones has brought torians of Asante, particularly for the 18th and 19th out two volumes of densely annotated translations centuries, from surveying the political and eco­ of, respectively, German and German-and-Dutch nomic behaviour of pre-colonial Asantes to focuss­ 17th-century writings about West Africa (Jones ing upon the terms in which they experienced, 1983, 1985). More than half of the first volume con­ understood and sought to act in their world (espe­ cerns the Fetu country, and contains much valu­ cially McCaskie 1983, 1986A and 8, 1987). His able material for historians of the Akan (especially book-length conference paper (McCaskie 1988) from Muller). The second volume's main takes his project further, by a detailed examination geographical focus is the Three Points area, of the Kumase odwira festival which he sees as the though it has less to say about indigenous society presentation by the state of a conscious, struc­ and culture than does its companion volume. tured "argument", in which a blend of intellectual Later European writings are also not being and emotional weapons were used to try to estab­ neglected: Ray Jenkins is critically re-examining lish the state's hegemony (in Gramsci's sense) the work of A. B. Ellis (see Jenkins 1987), while over the civil society. The state sought to define Tom McCaskie is preparing for publication an the terms in which its subjects viewed the world. annotated edition of the Asante diary of the Wes­ This work is rich in suggestive detail and, while I do leyan missionary Chapman. Jenkins also continues not recommend it for reading in the back of a his study of early Gold Coast historians (Jenkins mammy lorry, it abundantly repays concentrated 1986 and Jenkins, Forthcoming, 8; following his attention in the study. Meanwhile we await the thesis- Jenkins 1985A). appearance of McCaskie, Asante: Interpreting an While certain major sources for the pre­ African Culture (Manchester University Press). On colonial period are being made more accessible, a somewhat different tack, McCaskie has also con­ some researchers have tried to highlight an acute, tributed an analysis of Mampon dynastic history, cumulative erosion of the documentary base for cross-checking oral sources with the relatively rich further work on 19th and, especially, 20th century written record available for Asante (McCaskie Ghanaian history: the steady physical deterioration 1985). of the contents of the National Archives (Austin Tom McCaskie has not been alone in con­ 1986, Jones 1988). One aspect of the archives sidering pre-colonial Asante categories. Malcolm crisis that very few government ministries have Mcleod's study of Asante-European gift actually transferred documents to N.AG. for nearly exchanges during the nineteenth century reveals twenty years, apparently because of the Archives' much about the internal assumptions of Asante shortage of space and skilled personnel. This con­ society, as well as about its relationships with cerns future and perhaps existing historians, espe­ Europeans (Mcleod 1987). Clifford Williams (1988) cially because of the likelihood of loss or damage has re-opened the debate over the meaning of to files retained, unwanted and perhaps neglected, ·human sacrifice". At a very different level, insiders'

ASC Newsletter pages developing ideas about the historic identity of their group" of Asante emerged too late to share sub­ society are of course explored in Ray Jenkins' stantially in the CPP's initial capture of local and work on Gold Coast historians, referred to above. national spoils, and therefore they decided to Urban history is being tackled from various invest in a new political vehicle (Rathbone 1983). angles. Ray Jenkins is studying "the evolution of Rathbone has also made considerable progress on complex ethno-cultural orientations and connec­ a new "Akan" project, an examination of the mur­ tions" of "the cosmopolitan, Christianised, com­ der of the odikro of Apedwa in the aftermath of the mercial communities of the Cape Coast, Accra and death of Okyenhene Nana Sir Ofori Atta of Akyem Akropong triangle, c.1830-1920" (Jenkins, personal Abuakwa, in 1943. Exploration of this cause communication dd. 17 June 1989). Not least, he celebre in its extremely complicated social, has examined the overseas links of these com­ cultural and political contexts is beginning to shed munities (Jenkins 19858, 1986, Forthcoming A). light in a wide range of directions (Rathbone, Augustus Casely-Hayford is well proceeding with forthcoming 1989). doctoral research on the social history of the Cape Richard Rathbone has also been investigating Coast elite during the 19th and 20th centuries political interference in the police dur!ng the "hot" (Casely-Hayford 1989). Christopher Steed at years of 1948-51, while David Killingray writes U ppsala, Sweden, is researching the neglected about the policing of the colonial frontier on the history of religious change in 20th-century Kumasi, Gold Coast, during its successive northward exten­ concentrating on the oldest-established denomina­ sions between 1970 and 1911 (both in D. Anderson tions (Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, and and D. Killingray (eds.), forthcoming 1990). Anglican). He is concerned with religious history in My own research on southern Ghanaian eco­ its broadest social context: for example, wishing nomic history is still focussed primarily on a long­ ''to investigate the relationship between changes in term project, a study of the history of rural capi­ Asante religious values and practices, and Asante talism (in various senses) in Asante, with Amansie indigenous ideas of development and social (and to some extent, Adanse) as the main case­ change" (Steed 1988). study. The conceptual framework, both of the Although the history of large-scale mining has thesis and of subsequent writings, has been to a not been primarily an Akan story, the mines have large extent an attempted synthesis of those ele­ of course been a major part of the economic and ments of market economics and historical social environment of some Akan areas, and a materialism which seem to me to be useful for han­ source of employment. Substantial research at dling my evidence. The thesis was a provisional Birmingham was completed in the early 1980s into account for the 1817-1914 period (Austin 1984). the labour history of the mines, and into the history Two articles have presented some findings for the of northern migrant labour both in the mines and inter-war period. The first showed, for example, the on cocoa farms (Van Hear 1982, Crisp 1984), advance of annual wage-labour contracts on although the authors have since shifted their main cocoa farms in the 1920s and early 1930s giving attention elsewhere. way by the 1940s to a counter-trend towards Turning to the political conflicts of the inde­ sharecropping; at the instigation of the labourers pendence era, Richard Crook uses primarily Akan not the farmowners (Austin 1987). The second examples in a valuable examination of the back­ "positively" re-evaluated the economic and political ground to the colonial government's abandonment achievements of Asante chiefs and cocoa capi­ of "indirect rule" (Crook 1986). Richard Rathbone talists in the cocoa "hold-ups" (Austin 1988A). Cur­ has reviewed the respective socio-economic pro­ rently, I am exploring the interactions of cocoa files and objectives of the supporters of the CPP farming with the production and consumption of and the NLM. He argues that actually these were foodstuffs. I am also finishing two essays which "nearly identical", the difference being that the seek, respectively, to dig deeper into the causes of wave of post-war prosperity which launched so the decline of the Ghanaian cocoa industry, and to many small businessmen eager for political synthesise my main findings about rural capitalism patronage, had come a few years later in Asante in Asante history (Austin 1986, 19888). than it had further south. So "the new aspirant

ASC Newsletter page6 On agriculture and rural social structure, can only do this intelligibly if it can (at least at a Sandy Robertson has revised his analysis of share­ certain level of abstraction) describe them using cropping in the cocoa economy, and placed it in a concepts recognised by students of all the broad international comparative context (Robert­ societies concerned. One such concept is the son 1987). hypothesis that the behaviour of people in the past In terms of technical advance, the most inter­ tended to be rational, but "rational" only in the mini­ esting work underway here is perhaps Casely­ mal sense of logical in the selection of means Hayford's Cape Coast study. He has adopted a (intellectual or material) to achieve given ends, collective biography approach, to a large extent as without implying anything about the nature of the pioneered by the Asante CB Project in the 1970s, ends. Even then, the term can obviously not be but, as befits the 1980s, he has himself created a applied to all individual actions or thoughts, but it computer data-base program specifically tailored does have a wide relevance to the elucidation and for the task of digesting assorted data related to explanation of repeated patterns of behaviour or the network of individuals concerned. He has thought, such as insititutions and ideologies. Using made a particular effort to collect contemporary the word in this formal, instrumental, and context­ photographs, using the computer to record and specific sense, it is possible to explore highly non­ enhance them. secular perceptions and beliefs in terms of conflict­ ing rationalities; as indeed Wilks does in his most 3. Generalities recent essay, responding to Williams on "human Perhaps the broadest level of debate in the sacrifice". The "killings at Asante 'customs' ... were, field concerns of the relationship between the I suggest, quite rational procedures granted the study of Akan (and by extension, African) history in particular form that the belief in an afterlife took in its own right and its study within the framework of Asante and the way in which this belief was articu­ comparative world history. Tom McCaskie (1988) lated with notions of the status of both the living returned to this, recalling lvor Wilks' (1975) and the dead." (Wilks 1988, 452) strategy of emphasising the resemblances Whether we like it or not, the amount of between 19th-century Asante and other complex research on Akan history undertaken at British societies, specifically contemporaneous European universities - especially in the prolonged financial states, as a means of securing a place for Asante dry season that set in in the tertiary education sec­ in comparative history. In accordance with this, he tor in 1981,4 and still shows little sign of breaking - unapologetically applied to Asante concepts (such will continue to be largely a function of the extent as class and bureaucracy) originally developed for to which it can be shown to contribute to the study the analysis of European societies. McCaskie chal­ of African and world history generally, to the analy­ lenges this approach as materialist, rationalist, and sis of economic under-development, and to pro­ rationalising. This means, he argues, that it fails to gress in related disciplines. This may sound examine the historical experience of Asantes in depressing, for us who value Akan and West their own terms, which requires giving great weight African history in its own right. However, there are to the cultural and intellectual dimension, rather at least two reasons for optimism. First, a major than simply to the socio-economic. I am not con­ demand for the study of AkanjGhanaianjWest vinced that this is (to use a word he avoids, per­ African history specifically may emerge from the haps wisely) a clash of "paradigms". His own large Akan expatriate community in Britain, and revisionist work has shown empirically that the that community is already beginning to provide an "Africanist" literature of which Wilks (1975) in some infusion of graduate students. Second, as I argued ways represents the culmination, did over­ above, there is no necessary contradiction emphasise the secular quality of the Asante state (e.g. McCaskie 1980). In this respect, Wilks mis­ represented the comparison between Asante and 4. Not that starvation should necessarily be inferred from Europe by exaggerating the similarities. On the drought: one example is that during 1986-88 my research other hand, although comparative history requires enjoyed the most welcome support of a post-doctoral fellow­ recognition of differences as well as similarities, it ship from the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council.

ASC Newsletter page? between examining the history of a particular cul­ Crook, Richard C. (1986), "Decolonization, the ture in the hope of elucidating general themes, and Colonial State, and Chieftaincy in the Gold studying it for its own sake. Coast", African Affairs 85,338, 75-105. Dumett, Raymond E. and Johnson, Marion (1988), References "The Suppression of Slavery in the Gold Coast, Asante and the Northern Territories", in abbreviations: S. Miers and R. Roberts (eds.), The End of ASA: African Studies Association. Slavery in Africa, Wisconsin. ASAUK: African Studies Association of the United Garrett, L M. ·(1981), "The Gold Coast Comprador Kingdom. in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries", HA: History in Africa University of Birmingham Ph.D. thesis. IJAHS: International Journal of African Historical Jenkins, Ray (1985A), "Gold Coast Historians and Studies. their Pursuit of the Gold Coast Pasts: 1882- JAH: Journal of African History. 1917", University of Birmingham Ph.D. thesis. SOAS: School of Oriental and African Studies, , --- (1985B), "Gold Coasters Overseas, 1880-1919: University of London. with specific reference to their activities in Britain", Immigrants and Minorities 4, 3, 5-52. David Anderson and David Killingray (eds.), --- (1986), "In Pursuit of the African Past: John (forthcoming, 1990), Policing the Empire, Mensah Sarbah (1864-1910): historian of Manchester University Press. Ghana", in R. Lotz and I. Pegg (eds.), Under Austin, Gareth (1984), "Rural Capitalism and the the Imperial Carpet. Essays in Black History, Growth of Cocoa-Farming in Ashanti, to 1780-1950, Crawley, London, 109-130. 1914", University of Birmingham Ph.D. thesis. ----- (1987), ·confrontations with A. B. Ellis, a ----- (1986), "The Kumase Branch of the National participant in the Scramble for Gold Coast Archives of Ghana: a situation report and Africana, 1874-1894", in Beatrix Heintze and guide for prospective users", HA 13, 383-389. · Adam Jones (eds.), European Sources for ----- (1987A), "The Emergence of Capitalist Rela- Sub-Saharan Africa Before 1900: Use and tions in South Asante Cocoa-Farming, c.1916- Abuse, Paideuma 33 (Franz Steiner Verlag 33", JAH 28, 259-279. Wiesbaden GmbH). ----- (1987B), "The Political Economy of Decline -- (forthcoming, A), "'Brazilian' and 'West Indian' and Possible Revival in the Ghanaian Cocoa Influences in the Gold Coast (Ghana), c.1780- Industry, 1965-83/1938-87", paper presented 1914. A review and reappraisal of continuities to a workshop in the series on "Agriculture, in Caribbean and Brazilian connections with Nutrition and Health in Africa", Institute of West Africa after abolition and emancipation", Commonwealth Studies, University of Homines. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, vol. London, March 20. 12. ---- (1988A), "Capitalists and Chiefs in the Cocoa ----- (forthcoming, B), "Intellectuals, Publication Hold-Ups in South Asante, 1927-1938", IJAHS Outlets and 'Past-Relationships'. Some obser­ 21, 63-95. vations on the emergence of early Gold Coast ---- (1988B), "Class Struggle and Rural Capitalism - Ghanaian historiography in the Cape Coast, in Asante History", paper presented to the Accra and Akropong 'triangle': c.1880 - 1917", ASA annual meeting in Chicago, 28 October. in K. Barber (ed.), Self-Assertion and Casely-Hayford, Augustus (1989), "A Genealogical Brokerage: early cultural nationalism in West Study of the Cape Coast Stool Family. A Africaand the diaspora. University of Birming­

social history of Cape Coast. H Project paper ham, African Studies Series. presented to the African History Seminar, Johnson, Marion (1986), "The Slaves of Salaga", SOAS, 15 March. JAH 27,341-362. Crisp, Jeff (1984), The Story of an African Working Jones, Adam (1983), German Sources for West Class: Ghanaian Miners' Struggles, 1870- African History 1599-1669, (Wiesbaden, Franz 1980, London. Steiner Verlag GmbH).

ASC Newsletter pages ----- (1985) Brandenburg Sources for West African and the Ivory Coast", African Affairs, 85,-339, History 1680-1700, (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner 267-282. Verlag Weisbaden GmbH). Van Hear, Nicholas (1982), "Northern Labour and ----- (1988), "Ghana National Archives- a Sup­ the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in plementary Note", HA 15,385-388. Ghana", University of Birmingham Ph.D. McCaskie, T. C. (1980), "Time and the Calendar in thesis. Nineteenth-Century Asante: an exploratory Wilks, lvor (1988), "Asante: Human Sacrifice or essay'', HA 7, 179-200. Capital Punishment ? A rejoinder", IJAHS 21 ----- (1983), "Accumulation, Wealth and Belief in (1988), 443-452. Asante History: I. To the close of the nine­ Williams, Clifford (1988), "Asante: Human Sacrifice teenth century", Africa 53, 1, 23-43. or Capital Punishment ? An Assessment of ----- (1985), "Power and Dynastic Conflict in the Period 1807-1874", IJAHS, 21,433-441. Mampon", HA 12, 167-85. ----- (1986A), "Accumulation, Wealth and Belief in Asante History: II. The Twentieth Century", Etat des Etudes Akan en France (Histoire) Africa 56, 1, 3-23. by ----- (1986B), "Komfo Anokye of Asante: Meaning, Jean-Pierre Chauveau History and Philosophy in an African Society'', ORSTOM, Montpellier JAH 27, 315-340. et ----- (1988), "Knowledge and Belief as (Con)text in Claude-Helene Perrot Asante History" (paper presented to ASAUK Centre de Recherches Africaines, Paris I. Silver Jubilee Conference, Cambridge, 14-16 September, and to the ASA annual meeting, Dans les travaux des chercheurs les plus Chicago, November). anciens, l'histoire des populations akan est rare­ Mcleod, Malcolm D. (1987), "Gifts and Attitudes", ment abordee par des historians specialises. A in E. Schildkrout (ed.), The Golden Stool: !'exception de Claude-Helene Perrot et des studies of the Asante center and periphery~ archeologues Jean Polet et Josette Rivallain, dont Anthropological Papers of the American les travaux concernant Ia periode dite "proto­ Museum of Natural History, Vol. 65, Part 1, historique, • it s'agit surtout d'anthropologues et de New York. sociologues (Marc Auge, Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Rathbone, Richard (1983), "Parties, Socio­ FranCois Devaliere, Jean-Paul Eschlimann, Michel Economic Bases and Regional Differentiation Sure, Emmanuel Terray, FranCois Verdeaux) ou in the Rate of Change in Ghana", in P. Lyons d'economistes (Jean-Louis Boutillier, Jean-Marc and J. Manor (eds.), Transfer and Trans­ Gastellu). Une generation de jeunes doctorants en formation: Political Institutions in the New histoire apparait cependant (Karine Delaunay, Commonwealth, Leicester, 143-154. Dominique Juhe-Beaulaton, Thierry Riviere). II est ----(forthcoming, 1989), "A Murder In the Colonial done remarquable qu'en general les etudes his­ Gold Coast: law and politics in the 1940s", toriques, y compris chez les historians specialises, JAH30,3. partent d'une ou s'associent a une perspective Robertson, A. F. (1987), "Ghana: abusa· in his The anthropologique, privilegiant quelques grands Dynamics of Productive Relationships: domaines d'analyse: histoire economique (Boutil­ African share contracts in comparative per­ lier, Chauveau, Delaunay, Gastellu, Verdeaux, Ter­ spective, Cambridge. ray), histoire politique (Perrot, Riviere, Terray) ou Steed, Christopher J. (1988), "Development as les faits de representation et de religion (Auge, Related to Religious Change in a West African Eschlimann, Perrot, Sure). Certains aspects City: Kumasi, from the 1890s to the 1980s", originaux sont developpes O'utilisation des docu­ Paper presented to SOAS African History ments biographiques par Devaliere, l'histoire des Seminar, 23 November. paysages vegetaux par Juhe-Beaulaton). Teal, Francis (1986), •The Foreign Exchange Les entites socio-culturelles concernees Regime and Growth: a comparison of Ghana varient egalement d'une generation a l'autre de

ASC Newsletter page9 chercheurs. Les plus anciens ont tous travaille sur place since then, Akan scholars have continued des groupes akan localises totalement ou partielle­ their research and communicated it through many ment en Cote d'lvoire: Abron du Gyaman (Terray channels. Generally North American scholars et Boutillier, ce dernier a partir de ses recherches have not pursued any one particular theme nor sur les Kulango); peuples dits "lagunaires" (Auge, carried on a dialogue on any one bone of conten­ Polet, Rivallain, Verdeaux); Anyi du Bona tion, but continue to accumulate and interpret new (Eschlimann), du Molonu (Gastellu) et du Ndenye and old research materials from new and old (Perrot); Baule (Chauveau, mail il taut aussi rap­ archival and field sites. 1 peler les travaux en partie historiques de Pierre One of the more commonly used channels for Etienne prematurement disparu); Ano (Devaliere). presenting new research is the annual African Au contraire, Ia jeune generation des historiens Studies Association Conference. In 1988, in s'interesse surtout a des Akan du Ghana: pecheurs Chicago, Larry Yarak (Texas A&M U.) and myself fanti et leurs migration en Cote d'lvoire (Delaunay), jointly chaired two panels on Asante history paysages vegetaux de Ia Cote d'Or (Juhe­ entitled "Studying the Akan Past: Class, State, and Beaulaton), royaume Ga d'Accra et ses relations Ideology. • Papers presented, by those of us work­ avec les Akan (Riviere), traditions de migrations ing in North America included Larry Yarak's review des "lagunaires" ivoiriens (Sure). of the literature focused on "State, Society, and Au point de vue institutionnel, et sans tenir Politics in Nineteenth Century Asante." Broaden­ compte des doctorants, on notera que quatre ing out from my own work on the Asante- Ewe War chercheurs appartiennent a I'ORSTOM, lnstitut of 1869, I presented a paper focusing on 'The Mili­ FranQais de Recherches pour le Developpement tary Acquisition of Slaves in Nineteenth Century en Cooperation (Boutillier, Chauveau, Gastellu, Asante." Jean Allman (U. of Missouri-Columbia) Verdeaux), deux a !'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en presented a portion of her interesting dissertation Sciences Sociale (Auge, Terray), una I'Universite work on Asante's position in the independence de Paris I (Perrot), un au Musee des Arts Africains struggle in "The Youngmen and the Porcupine: et Oceaniens (Polet). Devaliere et Eschlimann Class, Nationalism, and Asante's struggle for Self­ poursuivent leurs recherches sur les Akan a titre Determination, 1954-57." Joseph Adjaye (U. of personal a cote de leur activite professionnelle Pittsburgh) up-dated us on his work in the Prempe principal e. archives and Seychelles documents with his paper Pour etoffer le nombre somme toute roouit de "Agyeman Prempe I and the Survival of Asante chercheurs franQais travaillant sur l'histoire des Kingship.· And David Owusu-Ansah (James Akan, il convient d'ajouter les travaux de Diana Madison U.) reflected on the implication of shifting Hulman sur l'histoire des Tyokosi du Mango power bases in nineteenth century Asante in his (Togo) originaire de I'Ano en Cote d'lvoire. paper "The Kumase Council and the Council of State: Changing Relations." Many of these papers have been submitted for publication but have not yet appeared in print. In this year's 1989 ASA conference (Atlanta, November 2-5) the preliminary program indicates a Akan Historical Studies in North America broad range of research topics on the Akan: David by Owusu-Ansah is chairing an entire panel on D.J.E. Maier •Musicians and Oral Historians: Culture Transmis- University of Northern Iowa

While as grand a gathering of many Akan spe­ 1. This article is, I am sure, not a complete coverage of every­ cialists as occurred in November 1984 at the thing and everyone currently active in Akan history studies. I American Museum of Natural History's "Asante: have limited the coverage to the most recent, purely historical and most visible scholarly papers. My apologies to anyone Kingdom of Gold" conference (proceedings of whose work I have inadvertently omitted. The members of which were published in E. Schildkrout, ed. The the Akan Studies Organization I am sure would like to be Golden Stool, New York, 1987) has not taken informed about your work.

ASC Newsletter page 10 sian in Akan and Mande Society." Kwasi Aduonum just published with Cambridge U. Press (1989) a (Evanston, Ill.) will present a paper for that panel book Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in North­ on ''The Atumpan Talking Drum in the Akan Adowa western Ghana. This complements nicely his 1986 Musical Ensemble." On another panel Larry Yarak publication with N. Levtzion, Chronicles from continues to make use of his facility with Dutch Gonja: A Tradition of West African Muslim His­ and his time spent in the Dutch archives in the toriography (Cambridge U. Press). The indebted­ paper he will be presenting, "Dutch Military ness of the field of Akan studies to Wilks is clearly 'Recruitment' on the Gold Coast: Slave-Trading in demonstrated by Cambridge U. Press' decision to Mid-Nineteenth Century Asante." This comple­ publish a new edition of Asante in the Nineteenth ments a paper he has recently published in Eth­ Century this year (1989) which includes a 25-30 nohistory (36, 1, 1989) entitled "West African Coas­ page new introduction by Wilks discussing recent tal Slavery in the 19th-Century: The Case of the literature in the field and revisions in fact and analy­ Afro-European Slaveowners of Elmina." Larry's sis he wishes to make in the book. By far the most paper topic also demonstrates the necessity Akan interesting piece of lvor's that I have read recently scholars have come to feel of understanding and which is probably most indicative of the direc­ African slavery if we are to understand the econ­ tion in which Akan studies should at least in part omy, politics, society, military, or international rela­ move, is a short piece "She Who Blazed a Trail: tions of African states. Ray Kea (Carlton College) Akyaawa Yikwan of Asante," found in P. Romero, has recognized this with his work on early Akan ed., Life Histories of African Women (Ashfield states and is currently researching a paper on Press, 1988). It deals with social structure and "Slaves, Pawns and the Social Construction of Ser­ values, the importance of genealogy, and the sig­ vitude on the Gold Coast, 1740-1860." nificance of career patterns, as well as the fascinat­ In twentieth century, colonial, and post­ ing life story of an influential woman. It is clearly colonial studies relating to the Akan, Osei-Mensah an example of how Wilks would like to see the Aborampah (U. of Wisconsin- Milwaukee) is pre­ Asante Collective Biography Project used to inform senting at this fall's ASA a paper on "Ethnicity and our historical understanding of Akan studies. Nationalism in Ghana: Jean Allman ventures into Unfortunately the Asante Collective Biography Pro­ the social history jwomen's studies field with a ject is currently in low gear as Wilks' and Yarak's paper on "The Changing Dynamics of Mothering in recent application for NEH funding was turned Asante: Gender, Class and Social Change in the down. Colonial Period." Ray Dumett (Purdue U.), with his A few valuable historiographical essays have years of research into the Ghanaian/Asante gold been published recently that deserve mention mines is presenting a paper on "Sickness and here. Ray Dumett has published in Business His­ Death on the Ghanaian Mining Frontier before tory Review (62,3, 1988) an article on his expertise 1914. • He and the late Marion Johnson have also entitled ·sources for Mining Company History in published an article entitled "Britain and the Sup­ Africa: The History and Records of the Ashanti pression of Slavery in the Gold Coast, Ashanti, and Goldfields Corporation (Ghana) Ltd." Probably the the Northern Territories" in S. Miers' and R. most valuable source for historiographical as well Roberts' new book The End of Slavery in Africa (U. as methodological discussions is David Henige's of Wisconsin Press, 1988). Also dealing with journal History in Africa. In the 1989 (16) issue Ray colonial labor problems is Joseph Engwenyu's Silverman and David Owusu-Ansah have published (Eastern Michigan U.) paper at this fall's ASA, an article "The Presence of Islam Among the Akan "World War II and Labor Protest in the Gold Coast." of Ghana: A Bibliographic Essay. • In the forthcom­ The scholar that out-produces us all despite ing 1990 (17) edition Joseph Adjaye will have an (or perhaps because of) eschewing raw research article on "Asantehene Agyeman Prempe I, Asante presentatipns at ASA, is lvor Wilks. He has History, and the Historian." recently been compiling, re-analyzing, and writing Some research has recently been published up research materials he collected in some cases on groups peripheral to the ever-dominant Asante many years ago. This has drawn him back to one and these include work on the Krobo in •The Rise of his earlier interests, Islam in Asante, and he has of Paramount Chiefs Among the Krobo, • by Louis

ASC Newsletter page 11 Wilson, International Journal of African Historical They?" Research Review (Legon) NS 4 (2) Studies (20, 3, 1987) and Sandra Greene's "Social 1988, in press. Change in 18th-Century Anlo: The Role of Technol­ Agorsah, Emmanuel Kofi. "Evaluating Spatial ogy, Markets and Military Conflict," in Africa (58, 1, Behaviour Patterns of Prehistoric Societies," 1988). And Phyllis Boannes (West Virginia U.) has Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 7 (3) just completed her Northwestern Ph.D. dissertation 1988:231-47. on the Kumawu in the earty colonial period. As in --- "The Settlement History of the Northern Volta the past however few American scholars Basin of Ghana," National Geographic apparently have the urge to venture into Akan Research 4 (3) 1988: 3n-85. studies in the Ivory Coast. Anquandah, James R. "Life Histories of Akan Ter­ One subject of great future interest has been racottas. • forthcoming. opened up by the British historian Clifford Williams Austin, Gareth M. "Capitalists and Chiefs in the in an article on human sacrifice, "Asante: Human Cocoa Hold-Ups in South Asante, 1927-1938," Sacrifice or Capital Punishment? An Assessment International Journal of African Historical of the Period 1807-1874," International Joqrnal of Studies 21 1988:63-95. African Historical Studies (21, 3, 1988) to which ----- "The Emergence of Capitalist Relations in Wilks wrote a most interesting response in the South Asante Cocoa-Farming, c. 1916-33," same volume. However, to my knowledge so far, Journal of African History 28: 259-79. no one has ventured to tackle with field research Baesjou, Rene. "The Historical Evidence in Old on this sensitive yet revealing topic. Maps and Charts of Africa with Special In summary, American scholars are currently Reference to West Africa, • History in Africa 15 pursuing wide- ranging interests in slavery, labor, 1988: 1-83. social structure, technology and political power. Sleek, Wolf. "Family Planning and the Family in Except for Wilks' work, the influence of Islam is Souther Ghana. • In Sex Roles, Population surprisingly neglected at this point; and examina­ and Development in West Africa: Policy tion of philosophy and "mind-set" among the Akan Related Studies on Work and Demographic remains in the hands of the British historians. Issues, ed. C. Oppong, pp. 138-53. London: Currey, 1987. ----- "Lying Informants: a Fieldwork Experience from Ghana, • Population and Development RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN Review 13 (2) 1987:314-22. AKAN STUDIES -----and N.K. Asante-Darko. "Illegal Abortion in Southern Ghana: Methods, Motives and Con­ sequences, • Human Organization 45 (4) 1986: This Jist of recent publications in Akan studies was 333-44. compiled from information submitted by members. --- "Did the Akan Resort to Abortion in Precolonial We had some problems with incomplete and par­ Ghana? Some Conjectures," Africa (London), tially illegible citations--we ask that in the future the forthcoming. citations be as complete as possible and that they Boahen, A. Adu. African Perspectives on be typed. One of the primary functions of the ASC Colonialism. Baltimore: John Hopkins is the dissemination of information. We therefore University Press, 1987. ask that you take a few minutes once or twice a ----- "A Nation in Exile: The Asante on the year and send us a list of your recent publications. Seychelles Islands, 1900-24." In The Golden Stool: Studies of the Asante Center and Addo-Fening, Robert. "Asante.• In African States Periphery, ed. E. Schildkrout, pp. 146-60. and Societies 1500-1800, ed. K. Shillington. Anthropological Papers of the American London: Longmans, forthcoming. Museum of Natural History. Volume 65, Part ----- "Customary Land Tenure Sustem in Akyem 1. New York: American Museum of Natural Abuakwa, • Universitas 9 1987. History, 1987. -- -rhe 'Akim' or 'Achim' in the 17th century and 18th century Historical Contexts: Who Were

ASC Newsletter page 12 ----- "Ghana Since Independence." In Decoloniza­ ---- "Quand !'esprit se fait chair chez les Agni du tion and African Independence. New Haven: Sanhvin," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, 1989, Yale University Press, 1988. in press. Bravmann, Rene A. and Raymond A. Silverman. -----"La toponomie des Tchaman ou Ebrie," Bul­ "Painted Incantations: The Closeness of Allah letin de /'/FAN, 1989, in press. and Kings in 19th Century Asante. • In The ---- Histoire d'Abidjan, forthcoming. Golden Stool: Studies of the Asante Center Domowitz, Susan. '"He Went to Live in the and Periphery, ed. E. Schildkrout, pp. 93-108. Savanna': The Interpretation of Anyi Folktales Anthropological Papers of the American and History,• Cross Rhythms 3 1989:African Museum of Natural History. Volume 65, Part Folklore Publications, 1. New York: American Museum of Natural ---"Insults by the Yard: Anyi Proverb Cloth," Natu­ History, 1987. ral History, forthcoming. Chauveau, Jean-Pierre and Jean-Pierre Dozon. ·Au Ehrlich, Martha J. "Early Akan Gold from the coeur des ethnies ... .I'Etat." In L'Etat Con­ Wreck of the 'Whydah'," African Arts 22 (4) temporain en Afrique, ~- Emmanuel Terray, 1989: 52-57, 87. pp. 221-296. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1987. Galli, Silvano. "Quando gli animali parlavano ----- Chauveau, Jean-Pierre. "La colonisation (Quand les animaux parlaient). Recueil de appropriee. Essai sur les transformations contes anyi-bona," SMA, Societa Missioni economiques et sociales en pays baule de Africane 4th quarter 1988. 1891 au debut des annees 1920. • In La ----- Contes d'Ayui Kouakou FranCois. Abidjan: colonisation: rupture ou parenthese?, ed. M. Nouvelles Editions Africaines, forthcoming. Piault, pp. 57-122. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1987. ----- "Le nouveau-ne a barbe blanche. Recueil de ----- "La part baule. Effectif de population et des­ contes anyi-bona sur Nyamian, dieu du ciel et simation ethnique: une perspective his­ de Ia terre," Bissa. Cahiers du GRTO, torique," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines XVII (1- forthcoming. 2) 1987: 123-165. Geest, Sjaak van der. '"Sunny Boy': chauffeurs, ----- and Jean-Pierre Dozon. "Ethnies et etat en autos en Highlife in Ghana" ["'Sunny Boy': Cote d'lvoire," Revue FranCaise de Science Drivers, Cars and Highligh in Ghana"], Politique 38-5 1988: 732-747. Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 16 (1) ----- and Jean-Pierre Dozon. "Kolonisation, 1989: 20-38. Plantagenwirtschaft und bi.igerliche -- '"Kofi Nkrabea': over noodlot" ['"Kofi Nkrabea': Gesellschaft in der Elfenbeinki.iste. • In Macht About Destiny"], in press. und Tradition in Westafrika, ed. E. Conte, pp. -- "Geen nedicijin tegen de haat: het lied van ein 243-282. Campus Verlag, 1988. melaatse" ["No Medicine Against Hatred: A ----- and M. Memei-Fote. "Production et significa­ Leper's Song"], in press. tion de l'identite politique baule," forthcom­ Greene, Sandra E. "Social Change in 18th Century ing. Anlo: The Role of Technology, Markets and Coronel, Patricia Crane. •African Art from Earth to Military Conflict, • Africa (London) 58 (1) 1988. Pedestal," African Today 36 (2) 1989: 5-14. Groff, David. "Ivory Coast: A Tarnished Miracle?," Diabate, Henriette. (ed. Vol.1, author of sections on Africa Today 35 (1) 1988: 61-68. the Akan and Lagoon peoples, Vol. 2-4). --- "The Dynamics of Collaboration and the Rule Memorial de Ia Cote d'lvoire. Abidjan: AMI, of Law in French West Africa: The Case of 1987. Kwame Kangah of Assikasso, 1898-1922." In ----"Sources orals et histoire: le cas du royaume Law and Colonialism in Africa, ed. K. Mann akan du Sanhvin, • Notre librairie 86 1987. and R. Roberts, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, ----- Eglise et Societe afriacaine. Un siecle forthcoming. d'apostolat dans Ia paroisse St. Pierre de ----- "The 'Revolt' of Assikasso: An Episode in the Jacqueville. Abidjan: Nouvelles Editions Colonial Restructuring of an African Regional Africaines, 1988. Economy," African Economic History, forthcoming.

ASC Newsletter page 13 Jenkins, Ray. "Brazilian and West Indian Mcleod, Malcolm D. "Authenticity in African Art--A Influences in the Gold Coast (Ghana), c. Variable Condition, u Bulletin of the Sainsbury 1780-1914. A Review and Reappraisal of the Centre for Visual Arts (4) 1988. Continuities in Caribbean and Brazilian Con­ ----- uGifts and Attitudes." In The Golden Stool: nections with West Africa after Abolition and Studies of the Asante Center and Periphery, Emancipation; Homines. Revista de Cien­ ed. E. Schildkrout, pp. 184-91. Anthropologi­ cias Sociales 12, forthcoming. cal Papers of the American Museum of Natu­ -----"In Pursuit of the African Past. J.M. Sarbah, ral History. Volume 65, Part 1. New York: Historian of Ghana in Britain, 1864-1910." In American Museum of Natural History, 1987. Under the Imperial Carpet. Essays in Black ----- UA Third Richard II Vessel from Kumase," History, 1780-1950, ed. R. Lotz and I. Pegg, forthcoming. London, 1987. ----- "Asante Goldweights: Images and Words." In ----"Confrontations with A.B. Ellis: A Participant in Images and Words, 1989. the Scramble for Gold Coast Africana, 1874------"Arte Africana e Idee Sui Tempo. u In 1894." In European Sources for the History of Antropologia Terdenze Contemporanee, eds. Sub-Saharan Africa before 1900: Their Use A. Marazzi, Hoepli. Milano, 1989. and Abuse, ed. B. Heintze and A. Jones. Owusu-Ansah, David. "The State and Islamization Paideuma 33. Stuttgart, 1987. in 19th Century Africa: Buganda Absolutism ----- "Intellectuals, Publication Outlets and 'Past versus Asante Constitutionalism, u Journal of Relationships'. Some Observations on the the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs 8 (1) Emergence of Early Gold Coast-Ghanaian 1987: 132-43. Historiography in the Cape Coast, Accra and -----"Islamization Reconsidered: An Examination of Akropong Triangle, c. 1880-1917." In Self­ Asante Responses to Muslim Influence in the Assertion and Brokerage: Early Cultural Nineteenth Century," Asian and African Nationalism in West Africa and the Diaspora, Studies 21 (2) 1987: 145-63. ed. K. Barber. Birmingham: African Studies ---- "Power or Prestige? Muslims in 19th Century Centre, University of Birmingham, forthcom­ Kumase." In The Golden Stool: Studies of the ing. Asante Center and Periphery, ed. E. ----- "The Salvation of Survival of the Fittest? The Schildkrout, pp. 80-92. Anthropological Case of the Gold Coast's Arthur Wharton dur­ Papers of the American Museum of Natural ing the British Conquest of West Africa: 1865- History. Volume 65, Part 1. New York: 95." In The Cultural Bond: Sport and British American Museum of Natural History, 1987. Imperialism, ed. J.A. Mangan and J. Macken­ Perrot, Claude-Helime. "La renaissance eotile des zie. London: Cass, forthcoming. annees soixante; History in Africa (Actes du Kouadio N'Guessan, Jem~mie. "La didactique du Colloque de Quebec, Octobre 1987). fran9B.is, langue seconde en milieu multilingue --- "Presentation" In La demographie historique et africain; CIRL (23), ILA, Universite d'Abidjan, /'Afrique, ed. C-H Perrot, special issue of avril1988. Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines 105-106 1988: 7- ---- "Phonologie de l'attie de Memni," in press. 15. M'bra Ekanza, Simon-Pierre et al. Memorial de Ia -----"La sensibilite des societas akan du sud- est Cote d'lvoire. Abidjan: AMI, 1987. de Ia Cote d'lvoire aux fluctuations ----- 17e et 1Be siecles ivoiriens, document demographiques," Cahiers d'Etudes pectagogique. Abidjan: 1987. Africaines 105-1061988:167-176. Marees, Pieter de. Description and Historical ----- " Genealogie, Chronlogie und Siedlungsges­ Accounts of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea chichte." In Macht und Tradition in Westafrika, (1602). Translated and edited by Albert van Franzosische Anthropologie und afrikanische Dantzig and Adam Jones. London: British Geschichte (Colloque de Frankfurt 1984), ed. Academy and Oxford University Press, 1987. Edouard Conte. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag; Paris: Editions de Ia MSH. 1988, pp 70-91.

ASC Newsletter page 14 ----- "La religion Eotile traditionnelle face au -----"Life and Language in Mahas Today," Rivista Prophete Gbahie," GodoGodo. Revue degli Studi Orientali 58 1984: 173-78. semestrielle de 1'/nstitut d'Histoire, d'Art et Silverman, Raymond A. "Historical Dimensions of d'Archeologie africains 10 1988:101-152. Tano Worship among the Asante and Bono." ----- "Presentation," "Genealogies et chronologie. • In The Golden Stool: Studies of the Asante In Sources orates de I'Histoire de /'Afrique, Center and Periphery, ed. E. Schildkrout, pp. ed. C-H Perrot. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 272-88. Anthropological Papers of the 1989. American Museum of Natural History. ----- "Les Traditions orates en Afrique," In Diction­ Volume 65, Part 1. New York: American naira universe/ des Litteratures. Paris: PUF, Museum of Natural History, 1987. 1989. ----- "Gold and Power: Art and Politics of the -----in collaboration with F. Verdeaux. "La gestion Asante. • In Art as Technology: Arnold Rubin's de l'environnement chez les pecheurs de Ia Introduction to the Art of Africa, Oceania, lagune Aby, • Cahiers de I'ORSTOM, sciences Native America, and Southern California, ed. humaines, in press. Z. Pearlstone.. Beverly Hills: Hillcrest Press, in ----- "Les objets d'origine europeene en usage a press. Kumasi au milieu du XIXe siecle," Actes du ----- and David Owusu-Ansah. "The Presence of Colloque de Lisbonne, Octobre 1988 Islam among the Akan of Ghana: A Biblio­ forthcoming. graphic Essay," History in Africa 16 1989: 325------"Messianismes nouveaux et malaise rural." In 39. Les nouveaux enjeux de I'Anthropologie, Simensen, Jarle. "Farmers, Chiefs and the World Actes du Colloque de Cerisy de Juin 1988. Market." In Festschrift for Magnus Morner. ----- "Les objets du pouvoir chez les Akan de COte Gothenburg, in press. d'lvoire," Actes du Col/oque de Strasbourg ----- "Jurisdiction as Politics. The Gold Coast dur­ de Decembre 1988, forthcoming. ing the Colonial Period." In The Expansion of ----- Traditions orates et Temoignages oraux," European Law. Leiden, in press. Actes du Colloque d'Aix-en-Provence de Terray, Emmanuel. "L'etnologia francese degli anni Decembre 1988, forthcoming. 30 e Ia situazione coloniale." In Dal Museo a/ Rathbone, Richard. "A Murder in the Colonial Gold terreno, l'etnologia francese e italiana degli Coast," Journal of African History 1989 anni trenta, pp. 19-31, Milan:Franco Angeli, forthcoming. 1987. -----, D. Cruise O'Brien and John Dunn, eds. West ---- "Le royaume abron du Gyaman." In Princes et Africa States. . . Cambridge: Cambridge Serviteurs du Royaume, ed. Claude Tardits, University Press, 1989. pp 23-57. Paris: 1987. -----"Police, Intelligence and Politics." In Policing ----- "Grandeur et decadence des Montagnes de and the Transfer of Power, eds. D. Anderson Kong," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines 101-102 and D. Killingray. Manchester: Manchester XXVI 72 1987: 241-249. University Press, forthcoming. -- "Bien commun et service public en Afrique heir Shinnie, Peter L. "Preliminary Report on et aujourd'hui. • In Servir I'Etat, eds, F. Bloch­ Archaeological Survey of Early Asante Sites," Laine and G. Etienne, pp 255-270, Cahiers de Nyame Akuma (28) 1987: 18-19. I'Homme. Paris:Editions de I'EHESS, 1987. -----"Archaeology in Gonja and Asante Connec­ ----- "Le royaume abron du Gyaman de 1875 a tions." In The Golden Stool: Studies of the 1910: de l'independance a l'etablissement de Asante Center and Periphery, ed. E. pouvoir blanc. • In La Colonisation: Rupture Schildkrout, pp. 23-28. Anthropological ou parenthese, ed. M. Piault, pp. 229-303. Papers of the American Museum of Natural Paris: L'Harmattan, 1987. History. Volume 65, Part 1. New York: --- "Asante Imperialism and Gyaman Resistance: American Museum of Natural History, 1987. Forms, Motivations, Trends." In The Golden --Archaeology in Gonja-Excavations at Daboya, Stool: Studies of the Asante Center and in press. Periphery, ed. E. Schildkrout, pp. 245-51.

ASC Newsletter page 15 Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Volume 65, Part 1. New York: American Museum of Natural INDIVIDUALS TO WHOM QUESTION­ History, 1987. . • . . NAIRES WERE SENT ----- "Munich: un anniversaire oubhe. In Pollttques de /'Oubli, pp. 65-79, Le Genre humain XVIII, CANADA Paris: Editions du Seuil1988. Kense, Francois J. ----- "Le debat politique dans les royaumes de Mato, Daniel * !'Afrique de !'Ouest; enjeux et formes," Revue I Ray, Donald FranQaises de Science Politique XXXVIII 5 Shinnie, Peter * 1988:720-731. L I ----- "Tradition, legende, identite dans les Etats COTE D'IVOIRE precoloniaux de Ia boucle du Niger," Cahiers Aka, Kouadio Joseph d'Etudes Africaines 109 XXVIII-1 1988:5-11. Aka, Kouame Timyan, Judith. Dictionnaire Baule-Fram;ais,. Alangba, Roger * Abidjan: CEDA, forthcoming. .. A Annan-Yao, Elizabeth * ----- and Robert Handloff. "Economy. In Cote Atsain, Achi d'lvoire Area Handbook, ed. Robert Handloff. Augier, Pierre Washington, DC: Library of Congress, in Diabate, Victor press. .. Diabate, Henriette * Visona Monica Blackmun. "The Lagoon Peoples. Dozen, Jean-Pierre 1~ Art de Ia Cote d'lvoire, exhibition Eschlimann, Jean-Paul catalogue, Musee Barbier-MOIIer. Munich: Galli, P. Silvana* Prestel Verlag, in press. Garrard, Timothy Warren, D.M. "Utilizing Indigenous Healers in Kadja Mianno, Daniel National Health Delivery Systems: The Kouadio N'Guessan, Jeremie * Ghanaian Experiment. • In Making Our Kouassi, Yao Research Useful: Case Studies in the Utiliza­ Loucou,Jean-Noel* tion of Anthropological Knowledge, ed. John M'bra Ekanza, Simon-Pierre * van Willigen, Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Ann Niamkey, Koffi * McElroy, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989. Niangoran-Bouah, Georges ---- and Mary Warren. "Learning to Uve and Love Ogni Kanga, Benoit in Different Worlds." In Inside the Mixed Mar­ Savane, Yaya riage, eds. W. Johnson and D.M. Warren. In review process. . FEDERAL REPUBUC OF GERMANY --- "The Expanding Role of Indigenous Healers 1n Menzel, Brigitte Ghana's National Health Delivery Systems." In African Medicine in the Modern World, ed. FRANCE Una Maclean and Christopher Fyfe, pp. 73-86. Auge, Marc Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, Chauveau, Jean-Pierre * University of Edinburgh, 1987. Boutillier, Jean-Louis ----- oEthnoscience and Aesthetics: The Case of Delaunay, Karine Akan Culture," BaShiru 13 (1) 1986. Eschlimann, Jean-Paul Yarak, Larry. Asante and the Dutch, 1744-1873. Lombard, Chantal Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Perrot, Claude-Helime * ----- "West African Coastal Slavery in the 19th Polet, Jean Century: The Case of the Afro-European Terray, Emmanuel * Slaveowners of Elmina," Ethnohistory 36 (1) Verdeaux, Franc;ois 1989: 44-60. GHANA

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ASC Newsletter page 18 research interests: archaeology of the later prehistoric and Fort Collins, CO 80523 [USA] early historic periods office phone: 303-491-5495 discipline: art history Dr. Wolf Sleek research interests: Aowin and Agni Anthropological-Sociological Centre University of Amsterdam Dr. Albert van Dantzig Oudezijds Achterburgwal185 History Department 1012 OK Amsterdam [NETHERLANDS] University of Ghana office phone: 020-5252621 P.O. Box 12 discipline: cultural anthropology Legon [GHANA] research interests: marriage, sexual relationships, birth con­ office phone: trol discipline: history research Interests: archival research particularly in Afro­ Professor Albert Adu Boahen Dutch relations along the Guinea Coast P.O. Box 16008 Airport Post Office Mr. Christopher DeCorse Accra [GHANA] Archaeology Program office phone: 288 Kinsey Hall discipline: history University of California research interests: Akan of Ghana and their neighbors Los Angeles, CA 90024 [USA) office phone: 213-558-4784 Professor Rene A. Bravmann discipline: archaeology research Interests: archaeology, material culture and its rele­ Division of Art History vance to ethnicity and acculturation studies School of Art DM-1 0 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 [USA] Dr. Henriette Diabate office phone: 206-543-7589 Universite Nationale de COte d'lvoire discipline: art history 01 B.P. V34 research interests: Asante interior, art and politics, Islam and Abidjan 01 [COTE D'IVOIRE] African societies office phone: 43.90.00 discipline: histoire research Interests: Histoire des Akan de COte d'lvoire et du Dr. Jean-Pierre Chauveau Togo Centre ORSTOM 2051, av. du Val de Montferrand B.P. 5045 Dr. Susan Domowitz 34032 Montpellier Cedex [FRANCE] New Delhi j USIS office phone: 67-61-74-39 Department of State discipline: sociologie Washington, DC 20520-9000 [USA] research Interests: Histoire economique et sociale; office phone: sociologie historique des dispositifs de developpement discipline: folklore research interests: Agni folklore and material culture includ­ Dr. Gracia Clark ing storytelling, grave monuments, proverbs 1054 LS&A Anthropology Department Dr. Martha Ehrlich University of Michigan Department of Art Ann Arbor, Ml 48109 [USA] Southern Illinois University office phone: 313-746-9986 Edwardsville, IL 62026-1001 [USA] discipline: anthropology office phone: 618-692-3183 research Interests: market women, trade, Asante, eth­ discipline: art history nohistory, food systems, political economy research Interests: Akan art of Ghana and Gate d'lvoire, especially state arts and metalwork in brass, gold and silver Dr. Remi Clignet Department of Sociology M. P. Silvana Galli University of Maryland Missions Africaines College Park, MD 21742 [USA] 04 B.P. 884 office phone: 301-454-5933 Abidjan 04 [COTE D'IVOIRE] discipline: sociology office phone: 32.82.89 research interests: education, law, family discipline: Utterature orale research Interests: Centes, proverbes, rites et f~tes tradition­ Dr. Patricia Crane Coronel nelles (v.g. f~te de l'igname) Art Department Colorado State University Dr. Sjaak van der Geest

ASC Newsletter page 19 Anthropological-Sociological Centre M. Jeremie Kouadio N'Guessan University of Amsterdam lnstitut de Unguistique Appliquee Oudezijds Achterburgwal185 Universite Nationale de COte d'lvoire 1012 OK Amsterdam [NETHERLANDS] 08B.P.887 office phone: 020-5252661 Abidjan 08 [COTE D'IVOIRE] discipline: cultural anthropology office phone: 44-02-99 research Interests: medical anthropology discipline: linguistique general et lingui:rtique africaine research interests: linguistique historique, description des Dr. Roger Gocking langues Mercy College Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 [USA] Ms. Karen Legge office phone: 914-693-4500 ext. 397 Centre of African Studies discipline: history Department of Politics research interests: colonial Ghanaian history, with a main Uverpool [GREAT BRITAIN] focus on the coastal towns office phone: 051-794-2904 discipline: anthropology Dr. Sandra E. Greene research Interests: economic and social organization of farming systems Department of History Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, Ml 49007 [USA] Dr. Thomas Lewin office phone: 616-383-8462 Department of History discipline: history 3001 Wescoe Hall research interests: Ewe-Akan relations, Anlo-Ewe history, University of Kansas social and economic history in the precolonial period Lawrence, KS 66046 [USA] office phone: 913-864-3569 Dr. David Groff discipline: history research interests: Asante and 20th century West Africa Unfield College 2255 NW Northrup Portland, OR 97210 [USA] M. Jean-Noel Loucou office phone: 503-229-7189 Departement d'Histoire discipline: history Universite Nationale de COte d'lvoire research interests: socio-economic consequences of the 01 B.P. V34 spread of commercial agriculture, the formation of ethnic Abidjan 01 [COTE D'IVOIRE] identities, and history of religious change in West Africa office phone: 43-90-00 discipline: history Dr. Bruce Haight research Interests: History of the Baule people; Akan art College of General Studies Western Michigan University Dr. Simon-Pierre M'bra Ekanza 2109 Lakeway Departement d'Histoire Kalamazoo, Ml 49008 [USA] Universite Nationale de COte d'lvoire office phone: 616-387-5361 01 B.P. V34 discipline: history Abidjan [COTE D'NOIRE] research interests: Gonja history, especially political, Islam, office phone: 43.90.00 poste 3427 and GonjajAsante relations discipline: histoire research Interests: Le Golfe de Guinee, 16e-19e siecles; les Dr. Ray Jenkins monde Akan; colonisation europeenne Department of Humanities Staffordshire Polytechnic Dr. Donna Maier Staffordshire ST18 OAD [GREAT BRITAIN] Department of History office phone: 0785-52331 University of Northern Iowa discipline: history Cedar Falls, lA 50614 [USA] research Interests: Gold CoastjGhana coastal history, c. office phone: 319-273-2097 1830-1920 discipline: history research Interests: Dr. RayKea Department of History Dr. Daniel Mato St. Olaf College Department of Art Northfield, MN 55057 [USA] University of Calgary office phone: 507-663-3804 2500 University Drive N.W. discipline: history Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 [CANADA] research interests: GhanajGold Coast, 17-19th centuries, office phone: 403-220-5251 social, economic and cultural history discipline: art history

ASC Newsletter page20 research interests: funerary arts, Akan symbolism and royal office phone: 619-534-3612 arts discipline: history research Interests: history of Akuapem, biography of Kwame Mr. Malcolm D. McLeod Nkrumah Museum of Mankind 6 Burlington Gardens Mr. Doran Ross London W1X 2EX [GREAT BRITAIN] Museum of Cultural History office phone: 01-323-8024 University of California discipline: anthropology 405 Hilgard Ave. research Interests: Asante history and material culture, anti­ Los Angeles, CA 90024 [USA] witchcraft movements office phone: 213-825-4259 discipline: art history Dr. Koffi Niamkey research Interests: Akan royal and military regalia I.A C. Universite d'Abidjan Dr. Enid Schildkrout 08 B.P. 1127 Department of Anthropology Abidjan 08 [COTE D'IVOIRE] American Museum of Natural History office phone: 32.59.58 ou 44.17.44 Central Park West and 79th Street discipline: philosophy and social sciences New York, NY 10024 [USA] research Interests: Dictionnaire analytique des masques office phone: 212-769-9432 Akans; encyclopedia des danses et des manifestations discipline: anthropology research Interests: Dr. David Owusu-Ansah Department of History Professor Peter L. Shinnie James Madison University Department of Archaeology Harrisonburg, VA 22807 [USA] University of Calgary office phone: 703-568-6743 2500 University Drive N.W. discipline: history Calgary, Alberta 2TN 1 N4 [CANADA] research interests: Muslims in 19th-century Asante office phone: 413-220-6018 discipline: archaeology research interests: Iron Age archaeology in Ghana primarily Dr. Claude-HeiE1me Perrot in historic items, archaeology in Sudan Centre de Recherches africaines 9 rue Mahler 75004 Paris [FRANCE] Dr. Raymond A. Silverman office phone: 42-78-33-22 Art Department discipline: histoirejanthropologie historique Kresge Art Center research Interests: Histoire precoloniale; anthropologie politi­ Michigan State University que; histoire et ecologie; histoire et religions avant le 20e sie­ East Lansing, Ml 48823 [USA] cle; sources orales office phone: 517-353-9114 discipline: art history Dr. Richard Rathbone research Interests: impact of islam on Akan art, aesthetic dimensions of Tano worship among the Akan School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Russell Square Dr. Jarle Simensen London WC1H OXG [GREAT BRITAIN] Department of History office phone: 01-637-2388 University of Trondheim discipline: history UNIT research Interests: social and political history of the southern 7005 Dragvoll [NORWAY] Gold Coast, legal history, nationalism office phone: 07-596440 discipline: history Dr. Philip Ravenhill research Interests: Ghana, colonial, Akyem Abuakwa National Museum of African Art 950 Independence Avenue, SW Dr. Robert Soppelsa Washington, DC 20560 [USA] Department of Arts and Theatre Arts office phone: 202-357-4910 Washburn University of Topeka discipline: cultural anthropology, art history Topeka,KS 66621 [USA] research interests: art and cultural history office phone: 913-295-6639 discipline: art history Dr. Edward Reynolds research interests: terracottas of the Akan in COte d'lvoire, Akan figural arts Department of History, C-oo4 University of California at San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093 [USA] Ms. Fabienne Tanon

ASC Newsletter page 21 1130 S. 48th Street office phone: 409-845-1736 Philadelphia, PA 19143 [USA] discipline: history office phone: 215-724-9559 research Interests: 19th century Asante, 19th century coastal discipline: psychology Akan society, Dutch activities on Gold Coast in the 19th research interests: cross-cultural psychology and educa­ century tional problems in developing countries

Professeur Emmanuel Terray EHEES Centre d'Etudes Africaines 54 8d Raspail 75006 Paris [FRANCE] office phone: 49-54-23-95 discipline: anthropologie research interests: Anthropologie politique, histoire economi­ que et sociale de !'Afrique de !'Ouest, histoire de !'Islam Africain

Dr. Judith Timyan International Center for Research on Women 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Suite 501 Washington, DC 20036 [USA] office phone: 202-797.0()()7 discipline: linguistics and social anthropology research interests: language classification, historical linguistics, women's work, women's health, medical anthropology

Dr. Monica Blackmun Visona Department of Art Metropolitan State College 1006 11th Street Denver, CO 80204 [USA] office phone: discipline: art history research interests: art, history, healing, religion, cultural change, the Lagoon peoples and neighboring groups (Anyi, Baule, Nzima), movement of objects and ideas across linguistic and for cultural boundaries

Dr. Susan Vogel Center for African Art 54 East 68th Street New York, NY 10021 [USA] office phone: 212-861-1200 discipline: art history research Interests: Baule art and culture

Professor D. Michael Warren Technology and Social Change Program 318 Curtis Hall Iowa State University Ames, lA 50011 [USA] office phone: 515-294-0938 discipline: anthropology research interests: indigenous knowledge systems and development

Dr. Larry Yarak Department of History TexasA&M College Station, TX 77843 [USA]

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