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Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities Under Colonial Rule

Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities Under Colonial Rule

Gocking, Roger S.

Hardcover

African HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0761813543
ISBN13: 9780761813545
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: May 13 1999
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Facing Two Ways explores the interaction between European and African cultures within the setting of Ghana's main coastal communities. Roger S. Gocking focuses on the emergence of a distinctive ethno-cultural constellation that arose from the interaction between African and European cultures and between African cultures in the heterogeneous social setting of the coast. He recognizes nationalism as the most visible, but not necessarily the most important feature of life in coastal Africa from the late nineteenth century through the 1940's. Instead, Gocking emphasizes local initiatives in shaping African reactions to the colonial situation, including the policies of the mission churches, the operation of the judicial system, political life, and the institution of the family. He also discusses the escalation of cross fertilization of African cultures, known as the Akanization of the Southern Ghana area indirectly caused by colonialism.

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