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THE WORLD READERS Series edited by Robin Kirk and Orin Starn THE ALASKA NATIVE READER Edited by Maria Shaa Tláa Williams THE BANGLADESH READER Edited by Meghna Guhathakurta and Willem van Schendel THE CZECH READER Edited by Jan Bažant, Nina Bažantová, and Frances Starn THE GHANA READER Edited by Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell THE INDONESIA READER Edited by Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo THE RUSSIA READER Edited by Adele Barker and Bruce Grant THE SOUTH AFRICA READER Edited by Clifton Crais and Thomas V. McClendon THE SRI LANKA READER Edited by John Clifford Holt THE LATIN AMERICA READERS Series edited by Robin Kirk and Orin Starn THE ARGENTINA READER Edited by Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo THE BRAZIL READER Edited by Robert M. Levine and John J. Crocitti THE CHILE READER Edited by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara B. Milanich, and Peter Winn THE COSTA RICA READER Edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina THE CUBA READER Edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC READER Edited by Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo González THE ECUADOR READER Edited by Carlos de la Torre and Steve Striffler THE GUATEMALA READER Edited by Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, and Elizabeth Oglesby THE MEXICO READER Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson THE PARAGUAY READER Edited by Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson THE PERU READER, 2ND EDITION Edited by Orin Starn, Iván Degregori, and Robin Kirk THE RIO DE JANEIRO READER Edited by Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss The Ghana Reader T H E G H A N A R E A D E R HISTORY, CULTURE, POLITICS Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell, editors DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham and London 2016 © 2016 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞ Typeset in Monotype Dante by BW&A Books, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data The Ghana reader : history, culture, politics / Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell, eds. pages cm—(World readers) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8223-5984-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-5992-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-7496-1 (e-book) 1. Ghana—History. 2. Ghana—Civilization. 3. Ghana—Politics and government. I. Konadu, Kwasi, editor. II. Campbell, Clifford C., editor. III. Series: World readers. DT510.G47 2016 966.7—dc23 2015030360 Cover art: Adzewa, a Fante women’s group. Photograph by Clifford Campbell, Accra, September 2009. produced with a grant from Figure Foundation publication of the global nation Contents Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I One Nation, Many Histories 17 Ancestral Faces, Kwesi Brew 19 The Holocene Archaeology of Ghana, Ann Brower Stahl 21 Quest for the River, Creation of the Path, Kwasi Konadu 30 A Creation Story and a “Beautiful Prayer” to Tano, R. S. Rattray 39 Folk Songs of Ghana, J. H. Kwabena Nketia 42 Bono- Takyiman Oral Traditions, Dennis Warren and Owusu Brempong 46 Oral Traditions of Adanse and Denkyira, Kwame Y. Daaku 51 An Account of Early Asante, Agyeman Prempeh I 60 Fante Oral Traditions: Kwamankɛse and Komenda, John K. Fynn 63 Archaeological Reflections on Ghanaian Traditions of Origin, Kwaku Effah- Gyamfi 69 Prelude to the Atlantic Slave Trade, Gérard L. Chouin and Christopher R. DeCorse 76 II Between the Sea and the Savanna, 1500–1700 81 Encounter with Europe, Kwesi Brew 83 The Voyage of Eustache de la Fosse, Eustache de la Fosse 87 A View of the Gold Coast from the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis, Duarte Pacheco Pereira 90 Letter from Mina Governor to the Queen [Catarina], Afonso Gonçalves Botafogo 94 A Report on Mina, Anonymous 97 The Gold Kingdom of Guinea, Pieter de Marees 100 Letter 17, Jean Barbot 106 Treaties between Gold Coast Polities and the King of Denmark and the Danish Africa Company, Ole Justesen 109
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