Season Three: Ashanti

Season Bibliography

Agyeman Duah, Joseph, and Ivor Wilks. Ashanti Stool Histories. Legon: University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies, 1963.

Anquandah, James. “The People of Ghana: Their Origins and Their Cultures.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 2013.

McCaskie, T. C. State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante. Cambridge University Press Cambridge, 1995.

Dumett, Raymond E., and B. K. Swartz. West African Culture Dynamics: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives. The Hague: Mouton, 1980.

Klein, A. Norman. “Slavery and Akan Origins?” Ethnohistory 41, no. 4 (1994): 627. https://doi.org/10.2307/482768. 

Wilks, Ivor. “‘Slavery and Akan Origins?" A Reply.” Ethnohistory 41, no. 4 (1994): 657. https://doi.org/10.2307/482769.

Tsikata, D, and W Seini. 2016. “Identities, Inequalities and Conflicts in Ghana.” Working Papers. CRISE (Department of International Development, University of Oxford).

McCaskie, T. C. Denkyira in the Making of Asante. Journal of African History, 2007. 

Chouin, Gérard L., and Christopher R. DeCorse. “Prelude to the Atlantic Slave Trade.” The Ghana Reader, 2010, 76–80.

Stahl, Ann Brower. “Early Food Production in West Africa: Rethinking the Role of the Kintampo Culture.” Current Anthropology 27, no. 5 (1986): 532–36. 

McLeod, M. D. The Asante. Trustees of the British Museum, 1981. 

Boaten, Kwasi. “Trade Among the Asante of Ghana up to the End of the 18th Century.” Institute of African Studies Research, 1970.

Prempeh, Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, and A. Adu Boahen. The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself and Other Writings. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2008. 

Wilks, Ivor. “Aspects of Bureaucratization in Ashanti in the Nineteenth Century.” The Journal of African History 7, no. 2 (1966): 215–32. 

Wilks, Ivor. Asante in the 19th Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. 

Tordoff, William. Ashanti under the Prempehs: 1888-1935. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 

 Yarak, Larry W. Asante and the Dutch: 1744-1873. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Sanders, James. “The Expansion of The Fante and the Emergence of ASANTE in the Eighteenth Century.” The Journal of African History. 1979. 

Flynn, J.K. “The Structure of Greater Ashanti: Another View.” The Journal of African History, 1974, 65–85. 

Arhin, Kwame. “Aspects of the Ashanti Northern Trade in the Nineteenth Century.” Africa 40, no. 4 (1970): 363–73. 

Kwarteng, Kwame. “Asante Conquest of Ahafo in the 18th Century: A Historical Legacy.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 2002.

Kyerematen, A. “The Royal Stools of Ashanti.” Africa 39, no. 1 (1969). 

Sinding Bentzen, Jeanet, Jacob Gerner Hariri, and James Robinson. “Power and Persistence: The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy.” The Economic Journal 129, no. 618. 2017.

Manu-Osafo, Manuel J. “‘The Days of Their Heedless Power Were over and Done’: Dynamics of Power in the Military Structures of the Precolonial Asante State, 1874–1900.” The Journal of African History 62, no. 2. 2021.

Owusu‐Ansah, David. “The State and Islamization in 19th Century Africa: Buganda Absolutism versus Asante Constitutionalism.” Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal 8, no. 1. 1987.

Austin, Gareth. “‘No Elders Were Present’: Commoners and Private Ownership in Asante, 1807–96.” The Journal of African History 37, no. 1 (1996): 1–30.

Priestley, Margaret. “The Ashanti Question and the British: Eighteenth-Century Origins.” The Journal of African History 2, no. 1 (1961): 35–59. 

Ofosu-Appiah, L. H. Dictionary of African Biography. New York: Reference Publications, 1977.

Danzy , Jasmine. “Adinkra Symbols: An Ideographic Writing System .” Stony Brook University , 2009.

Silverman, Raymond A., and David Owusu-Ansah. “The Presence of Islam among the Akan of Ghana: A Bibliographic Essay.” History in Africa 16 (1989): 325–40.

Alpern, Stanley B., and Christiane Owusu-Sarpong. Les Amazones De La Sparte Noire: Les Femmes guerrières De L'ancien Royaume Du Dahomey. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2014.

Ephirim-Donkor, Anthony. African Religion Defined: A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship among the Akan. Hamilton Books, 2017.

Meredith, Henry. Account of the Gold Coast of Africa: With A Brief History of the African Company, 1812. 

Yankah, K.  'To praise or not to praise the king: the Akan "apae" in the context of referential poetry', Research in African Literatures 14 (1983): 381-400. 

Boadi, L. (1989) 'Praise poetry in Akan', Research in African Literatures 20 (2): 181-93.

McCaskie, Tom. “Telling the Tale of Osei Bonsu: An Essay on the Making of Asante Oral History.” Africa 84, no. 3 (2014): 353–70. 

Brukum, N.J.K. “The Role of the Dutch in the Coastal Wars of 1807-1828.” University of Ghana, 2008. 

Appiah, Anthony, and Martin Bunzl. Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption. Princeton University Press, 2007. 

Terray, Emmanuel. “Long-Distance Exchange and the Formation of the State: The Case of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman.” Economy and Society 3, no. 3 (1974): 315–45.

Terray, Emmanuel. “The Political Economy of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman.” University of Paris, 1960.

Bowdich, Thomas. An Essay on the Superstitions, Customs, and Arts, common to the Ancient Egyptians, Abyssinians, and Ashantees. John Smith. 1821. 

Carter, W. Asante Music in Old and New Juaben. University of California, Los Angeles. 1984.

Britwum, K.A. “Kwadwo Adinkra of Gyaaman: A Study Between the Brong Kingdom of Gyaaman and Asante from 1800-1818.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana 12, no. 2. 1974.

Crowder, Michael. “West African Resistance: The Military Response to Colonial Occupation.” 1971. 

American Colonization Society. The African Repository. Volume 9. (1838): 29-32.

Addo-Fening, R. “The Background to the Deportation of King Asafo Agyei and the Foundation of New Dwaben.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 1973.

McCaskie, Tom. “Alcohol and the Travails of Asantehene Osei Yaw.” Africa - Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, 2020.

Justesen, Joel. "The Negotiations for Peace in the Gold Coast 1826 to 1831" Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 2000.

McCaskie, Tom. "Kinship and Family in the History of the Oyoko KɔKɔɔ Dynasty of Kumase" Journal of African History, 2009.

Arhin, Kwame. “A Note on the Asante Akonkofo: A Non-Literate Sub-Elite, 1900–1930.” Africa 56, no. 1 (1986): 25–31.

McCaskie, Thomas C. The Paramountcy of the Asantehene Kwaku Dua (1834-1867): A Study in Asante Political Culture, 1974.

Winks, Christopher. “City of Dis or City of Renewal?” Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature, 2009, 147–65.

Hymer, Stephen H. “Economic Forms in Pre-Colonial Ghana.” The Journal of Economic History 30, no. 1 (1970): 33–50.

Dickson196, K.B. “The Development of Road Transport in Southern Ghana and Ashanti since 1850.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 1961.

Johnson, Marion. “The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa Part II.” The Journal of African History, 1970.

Arhin, Kwame. “State Intervention in the Ashanti Economy.” Institute of African Studies, 1974.

McCaskie, T. C. “Ahyiamu-‘A Place of Meeting’: An Essay on Process and Event in the History of the Asante State.” The Journal of African History 25, no. 2, 1984.

Adu-Boahen, Kwabena. “Friendly Assistance: Archetypal Pawnship in Pre-Colonial Akan Society.” African Journal of History and Culture, 2013.

Yarak, Larry W. “A Dutch Embassy to Asante in 1857: The Journal of David Mill Graves.” History in Africa, 1997.

Getz, Trevor R and Lindsay Ehrisman. “The Marriages of Abina Mansah: Escaping the Boundaries of ‘Slavery’ as a Category in Historical Analysis.” Journal of West African History 1, no. 1 (2015): 93–118. 

Rucker, Walter. “Beyond Ashanti - the Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. by Rebecca Shumway. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2011. The Journal of African History 53, no. 3 (2012): 429–31.

Boahen, A. Adu. Ghana: Evolution and Change in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Sankofa, 2000.

Abbou, Tahar. “The Nineteenth Century Colonial Governments in the Gold Coast” Al-Hakika Journal 11, no. 20 (2012): 23–34.

Botchway, Francis N. “Pre-Colonial Methods of Gold Mining and Environmental Protection in Ghana.” Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 13, no. 4 (1995): 299–311. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646811.1995.11433041.

Eldridge, C. C. “Newcastle and the Ashanti War of 1863–64: A Failure of the Policy of ‘Anti‐Imperialism.’” Renaissance and Modern Studies 12, no. 1 (1968): 68–90.

Laumann, Dennis Heinz. “Compradore-in-Arms': The Fante Confederation Project (1868-1872).” Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 21, no. 1-2 (1993).

McCaskie, Thomas C. “Death and the Asantehene: A Historical Meditation.” The Journal of African History 30, no. 3 (1989): 417–44.

Wächter, Fenna Maximiliane. “Tarnishing the Golden Stool .” Bucknell University, 2010.

Akosua Aidoo, Agnes. “The Asante Succession Crisis: 1883-1888.” Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana 13, no. 2 (1972).

Harvie, Ian. “The Raid on Essaman, 14 of October 1873: An Account by Lieutenant Edward Woodgate.” Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 77, no. 309 (1999).

Kwame Arhin. "The Missionary Role on the Gold Coast and in Ashanti: Reverend Ramseyer and the British Takeover of Ashanti." 1869-1894. (1968).

Edgerton, Robert Breckenridge. The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War for Africa's Gold Coast. The Free Press, 1995. 

Ojo, Owosu. “Ransoming White Captives: An Episode in Anglo-Ashanti Relations.” African economic history , 2014. 

Gershoni, Yekutiel. “The Fante Confederation and the Grebo Reunited Confederation: A Political History of West African Confederations in the Nineteenth Century .” Liberian Studies Journal 29, no. 2 (2004): 16–32.

Shumway, Rebecca. “From Atlantic Creoles to African Nationalists: Reflections on the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Fanteland.” History in Africa, 2014, 1–26.

British Parliament. Further Correspondence Respecting The Ashantee Invasion Number 4. London, 1874.

Mensa, Owosu. “Prince Owusu-Asna and Asante-British Diplomacy 1841-1881.” University of Wisconsin, 1974.

Miers, Suzanne, and Richard Roberts. The End of Slavery in Africa. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

McCaskie, T.C. “Anti-Witchcraft Cults in Asante: An Essay in the Social History of an African People.” History in Africa 8, 1981.

Nkrumah, Patrick Kwaku. “The Interaction between Christianity and Ashanti Religion.” Drew University, 1992.

Owosu-Mensa, Kofi. “Prince Owusu-Ansa of Asante, 1823-1884.” Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 9, no. 3 (1978).

Ludlow, Helen. “Ghana, Cocoa, Colonialism and Globalisation: Introducing Historiography.” Yesterday & Today 8 (2012).

Anderson, Norma Jeanne, and Benjamin Acquaah. “Cocoa Development in West Africa: The Early Period with Particular Reference to Ghana.” African Studies Review 43, no. 2 (2000): 156.

Hay, Margaret Jean, and Christine Okali. “Cocoa and Kinship in Ghana: The Matrilineal Akan of Ghana.” African Economic History, no. 14 (1985): 251. 

McCaskie, T. C. Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African Village, 1850-1950. Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

Arhin, Kwame, P. T. Baxter, David Brokensha, Carlos Buitrago Ortiz, J. S. Eades, Joel M. Halpern, T. C. McCaskie, Christopher G. Okojie, and Enid Schildkrout. “Peasants in 19th-Century Asante.” Current Anthropology 24, no. 4 (1983)

Brempong, Arhin. “The Role of Nana Yaa Asantewaa in the 1900 Asante War of Resistance.” Ghana Studies 3, no. 1 (2000): 97–110. 

Obeng, Pashington. “Yaa Asantewaa’s War of Independence: Honoring and Ratifying an Historic Pledge.” Ghana Studies 3, no. 1 (2000): 137–52. 

Akurang-Parry, Kwabena Opare. “Colonial Forced Labor Policies for Road-Building in Southern Ghana and International Anti-Forced Labor Pressures, 1900-1940.” African Economic History, no. 28 (2000)

Aidoo, Akosua Agnes. “Asante Queen Mothers in Government and Politics in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Nigerian History, 1977.

Lentz, Carola. Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana. Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2007.

Ofosu-Mensah Ababio , Emmanuel. “Gold Mining and the Socio-Economic Development of Obuasi in Adanse.” African Journal of History and Culture 3 (2011).

Arhin, Kwame. “The Missionary Role in the Gold Coast and Ashanti 1869-1894.” Kwame Arhin, 1967.

Foster, W. H. “Women Slave Owners Face Their Historians: Versions of Maternalism in Atlantic World Slavery.” Patterns of Prejudice 41, no. 3-4 (2007): 303–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313220701431443.

McCaskie, T. C. “The Golden Stool at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight.” Ghana Studies 3, no. 1 (2000): 61–96. https://doi.org/10.1353/ghs.2000.0003.

McCaskie, T. C. “The Life and Afterlife of Yaa Asantewaa.” Africa 77, no. 2 (2007): 151–79. https://doi.org/10.3366/afr.2007.77.2.151.

Boahen, Albert Adu. “Yaa Asantewaa in the Yaa Asantewaa War of 1900: Military Leader or Symbolic Head?” Ghana Studies 3, no. 1 (2000): 111–35. https://doi.org/10.1353/ghs.2000.0005.