Preface
Introduction
The Origins of the Akan – A. Adu Boahen
The “Akan” Problem – David Kiyaga-Mulindwa
Slavery and Akan Origins? – A. Norman Klein
“Slavery and Akan Origins?” A Reply – Ivor Wilks
Reply to Wilks’s Commentary on “Slavery and Akan Origins?” – A. Norman Klein
From European Contact to the Komenda Wars: The Eguafo Kingdom During the Height of the Gold Trade – Sam Spiers
Zones of Exchange and World History: Akani Captaincies on the Seventeenth Century West African Gold Coast – Ray A. Kea
A Precolonial Political History of the Sefwi Wiawso – Oman Stefano Boni
State Formation and Intercommunal Alliances in the Gold Coast (17th to 18th Centuries) – Pierluigi Valsecchi
The Expansion of the Fante and Emergence of Asante in the Eighteenth Century – James Sanders
Asante at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight – Ivor Wilks
Slavery and Abolition in the Gold Coast: Colonial Modes of Emancipation and African Initiatives – Kwabena Opare Akurang-Parry
“My Arse for Okou”: A Wartime Ritual of Women on the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast – Adam Jones
Archival Fragments: Ntamoba and the Political Economy of Child-Rearing in Asante – Jean Allman
Connecting with the Past, Building the Future: African Americans and Chieftaincy in Southern Ghana – Susan Benson
What’s Tourism Got to Do with It? The Yaa Asantewa Legacy and Development in Asanteman – Lynda R. Day
Diaspora Discourses – Kwasi Konadu
Asante History: A Personal Impression of Forty Years – T. C. McCaskie
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgment of Copyrights