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History of Ghana

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History of Ghana
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De area of de Republic of Ghana (de then Gold Coast) cam be known insyd Europe den Arabia as de Ghana Empire after de title of ein Emperor, de Ghana.[1] Geographically, na de ancient Ghana Empire approximately be 500 miles (800 km) north den west of de modern state of Ghana, wey be controlled territories insyd de area of de Sénégal River den east towards de Niger rivers, insyd modern Senegal, Mauritania den Mali.[2] De empire dey appear na e break up dey follow de 1076 conquest by de Almoravid[3] General Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar. Na a reduced kingdom continue dey exist after na Almoravid rule end, wey na dem later incorporate de kingdom into subsequent Sahelian empires, such as de Mali Empire.[4] Around de same time, south of de Mali empire insyd present-day northern Ghana, na de Kingdom of Dagbon emerge.[5] Na de decentralised states rule by de tindaamba dem unify into a kingdom.[6][7] Na chaw sub-kingdoms go later arise from Dagbon wey dey include de Mossi Kingdoms[8] of Burkina Faso[9] den Bouna Kingdom[10] of Ivory Coast.[11] Na Dagbon pioneer Ghana ein earliest learning institutions,[12] wey dey include a university town,[13] den a writing system prior to European arrival.[14]

Toward de end of de classical era, na dem form larger regional kingdoms insyd West Africa, na one of wich be de Kingdom of Ghana, north of wat today be de nation of Ghana. Before ein fall at de beginning of de 10th century, na Akans migrate southward wey na dem found chaw nation-states around dema matriclans, wey dey include de first empire of Bono state dem found insyd de 11th century den for wich na dem name de Brong-Ahafo (Bono Ahafo) region.[15] De Mole-Dagbon people, wey na dem found de earliest centralised political kingdoms of Ghana, migrate from Lake Chad to present-day Ghana. Later, na dem think Akan ethnic groups such as de Ashanti, Akwamu, Akyem, Fante state den odas possibly get roots insyd de original Bono state settlement at Bono Manso.[16] Na de Ashanti kingdom ein government operate first as a loose network den eventually as a centralized empire-kingdom plus an advanced, highly specialized bureaucracy wey be centred on de capital Kumasi.[17]

References

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  1. ↑ Abaka, Edmund (27 April 2010), "Ghana Empire", African American Studies Center, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.47874, ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1.
  2. ↑ "Kingdom of Ghana [ushistory.org]". us history. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "3: Islam in West Africa. Introduction, spread and effects – History Textbook" (in British English). Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Supplementum Epigraphicum GraecumBosporos. Aspects of The Bosporan Kingdom in the later Roman empire". Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. doi:10.1163/1874-6772_seg_a27_424.
  5. ↑ Staniland, Martin (1975). The Lions of Dagbon: Political Change in Northern Ghana. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511759543. ISBN 9780521206822.
  6. ↑ "2-3: The Origins of Dagbon". adrummerstestament. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  7. ↑ Staniland, Martin (1975). The Lions of Dagbon: Political Change in Northern Ghana. African Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-10143-1.
  8. ↑ "Mossi-Dagomba". GlobalSecurity. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  9. ↑ Debutify (2021-01-30). "The Rise & Fall of The Powerful Mossi Kingdoms". Our Ancestories (in English). Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  10. ↑ "Bouna | African kingdom | Britannica". Britannica. (in English). Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  11. ↑ "Rezo-Ivoire .net | le royaume koulango de bouna". rezoivoire. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  12. ↑ Kea, Ray (February 2018). "Science and Technology in 18th Century Moliyili ) Dagomba) and the Timbuktiu Intellectual Tradition".
  13. ↑ Lauer, Helen (November 2007). "Depreciating African Political Culture". Journal of Black Studies (in English). 38 (2): 288–307. doi:10.1177/0021934706286905. ISSN 0021-9347. S2CID 146634078.
  14. ↑ "Dagbanli Ajami and Arabic Manuscripts of Northern Ghana". open.bu.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  15. ↑ Boafo, James (2019). Agrarian transformation in Ghana's Brong Ahafo region: Drivers and outcomes (Thesis). University of Queensland Library. doi:10.14264/uql.2019.711.
  16. ↑ Meyerowitz, Eva L. R. (1975). The Early History of the Akan States of Ghana (in English). Red Candle Press. ISBN 9780608390352.
  17. ↑ Andrews, Rhys (2013). "Representative bureaucracy in the United Kingdom". Representative Bureaucracy in Action: 156–167. doi:10.4337/9780857935991.00017. ISBN 9780857935991.

Read further

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  • Ahlman, Jeffrey S. Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana (2017).
  • Asare, Abena Ampofoa. Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
  • Austin, Gareth (2005). Labour, Land, and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807–1956. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781580461610.
  • Austin, Dennis. Politics in Ghana, 1946-1960 (Oxford University Press, 1970).
  • Biney, Ama. "The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah in Retrospect." Journal of Pan African Studies 2.3 (2008). online Archived 5 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine, historiography
  • Boahen, Adu. "A New Look at the History of Ghana." African Affairs (1966): 212–222. in JSTOR
  • Boahen, A. Adu. Mfantsipim and the Making of Ghana: a centenary history, 1876–1976 (Sankofa Educational Pub, 1996)
  • Bourret, Florence Mabel. Gold Coast: A survey of the Gold Coast and British Togoland, 1919–1946. (Stanford University Press, 1949). online
  • Buah, F. K. A history of Ghana (London: Macmillan, 1998)
  • Claridge, W. W. A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti (1915)
  • Davidson, Basil. Black star: a view of the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah (1990)
  • Fuller, Harcourt. Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism (2014) online,
  • Gocking, Roger S. The History of Ghana (2005). online free to borrow
  • Graham, Charles Kwesi. The History of Education in Ghana: From the Earliest Times to the Declaration of Independence (Routledge, 2013)
  • McLaughlin, James L., and David Owusu-Ansah. "Historical setting." Ghana: A country study (1995, Library of Congress), pp: 1–58. online
  • Owusu-Ansah, David. Historical Dictionary of Ghana (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)
  • Szereszewski, R. Structural Changes in the Economy of Ghana, 1891–1911 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965)
  • Ward, W. E. F. A History of Ghana (Allen & Unwin, 1966), online free to borrow

Primary sources

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Online

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  • Apter, David E. Ghana in Transition. New York: Atheneum, 1963.
  • Asare, Abena Ampofoa. Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
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