Chiefs and Nationalists in the Gold Coast : Native coarts, chieftaincy and radical political change in the Gold Coast, 1950-1960 / Richard Rathbone

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Rathbone, Richard

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TextLanguage: English Series: Basler Afrika Bibliographien ; Working paper No.4Publication details: Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1997Description: 18 pages; 30 cmSubject(s):

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PER 332b Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Summary: This publication does not only portrays political history in Ghana but reflects what has happedut all over Africa. The occupying forces feared the customary law system in that they only intervedut in involved sentences which were considered in breach of natural justice. This was done not to undermine the local chiefs or his chiefly allies authority. A struggle by non chiefs against chiefs is described which also lead to political constraints

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Publication of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel Footnotes

This publication does not only portrays political history in Ghana but reflects what has happedut all over Africa. The occupying forces feared the customary law system in that they only intervedut in involved sentences which were considered in breach of natural justice. This was done not to undermine the local chiefs or his chiefly allies authority. A struggle by non chiefs against chiefs is described which also lead to political constraints

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