Colonial anthropology and historical reconstruction -- Drum chant and the political uses of tradition -- Tindanas and chiefs : ethnography -- Chiefs and tindana

An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa.

Rahman Yakubu critiques the notion that Islam and Christianity in Africa have been benevolent to African Traditional Religion (ATR) in their interreligious enco

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. After university an

The first book length-work on Afa Ajura and translation of his complete poems This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of