Manuel Manu-Osafo

University of Ghana | Legon · History

National day celebrations are high points in the nation-building project during which citizens and leaders recommit themselves to the “national cause”. But owing to the poignant feelings that these celebrations evoke and the essentially open-ended nature of the nation-building project, rival political factions prefer to use such occasions to assert...

The British surprisingly faced no military resistance when they captured Asante in 1896. Previous works have focused on the agency of actors like Prempe and Frederick Hodgson to explain why. This paper, in contrast, approaches this epoch in Asante history from the context of the sociopolitical power structure within which the precolonial Asante sta...