The Asante World

Edmund Abaka is Associate Professor of History and International Studies, University of Miami. His publications include Kola is God’s Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives & the Kola Industry of Asante & the Gold Coast (2005); House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles and Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2012). Kwame Osei Kwarteng is a Professor of History, former Head of the Department of History, and currently Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is the author of A History of Ahafo 1719-1958: Ahafo from dependence to independence (2011) and A History of the Elephant in Ghana in the Twentieth Century (2011).

1. Introduction Part 1 2. The Ahafo–Asante Relations, 1712-1935 3. The Asante Factor in the Political Re-Orientation of Northern Ghana: A Historical Evaluation of the Bassari-Dagomba Relations, 1745-1876 4. Asante Imperium Expansion: Imperial Outlook and Construction of Empire 5. Contending Empires: Asante and Britain From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Part 2 6. Historical Reconstruction of an Asante Ancillary State: Origin, Migration and Settlement of Sekyere Kwamang 7. Dupuis’ Discourse on Asante in the 19th Century: An Evaluation of the Islamic Themes in the Journal of Residence in Ashantee (1824) 8. Why Islam Did Not Make a Significant Impact on Asante During the 18th and 19th Centuries Part 3 9. Red Gold: Kola Nuts, the Kola Nut Trade and the Political Economy of AsanteEdmund Abaka 10. An Indigenous Innovative Touch: Origin and Significance of the Kente Cloth in Asante Culture 11. Adinkra Symbols and Proverbs as Tools for Elucidating Indigenous Asante Political Thought 12. The Tropology of Akan Drum Language: Sounds and Meanings From the Mamponghene’s Drum Appellation Part 4 13. A Political Architecture of Leadership Crisis of the Kumasi Central Mosque From 1970 to 2013 14. Claiming Asante: The Akan Origins of Jamaican Maroons Part 5 15. Secular Government and the Court of the Asante Ahemaa in the 21st Century: An Ethnographic Account of Ejisu and Juaben Traditional Areas 16. Epidemiology and Local Responses to Diseases in Asante: A Focus on Kumase Since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 17. Girl Child Education in Asante, 1901-1957