The Traditional Akan Socio-Political Example - IEA

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SOCIO-POLITICAL EXAMPLE
MARTIN ODEI AJEI
Institute ofEconomic Affairs, P.O. BoxOS 1936, Osu, Accra,
Ghana.

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ISBN: 9988-584-11-3
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AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN GHANA:
THE TRADITIONAL AKAN
SOCIO-POLITICAL EXAMPLE
MARTIN ODEI AJEI
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2001
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Economic Affairs or any organizations that support it.
PREFACE

play an essential role in the search for enduring and
.(cid:127). workable solutions to Africa's socio-political and economic
the political future of the continent,

conform to traditional principles.
traditional values into national governance, and advocates a
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Institute of Economic Affairs
Accra, 2001
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lecturer in philosophy at the University of Ghana.

papers on a variety of philosoph.ical themes.
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customs and institutions and hope toavoid national death"
Casely-Hayford (1911, 17)
INTRODUCTION

process.
in the bid to fashion appropriate
ethnocentric
immediately.
Iwillnot risk dismissing such an objection in a cavalier way.
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cultures can be accessed, understood,
with regard to this belief.

structure purely in its traditional aspect" in spite ofdifficulties
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that such discourse

he argues:

future. I willuse the term 'tradition' in another sense.
European colonial rule and the concomitant ideals,
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