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Title:Aspects of the Ashanti Northern Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Author:Arhin, KwameISNI
Year:1970
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:40
Issue:4
Period:October
Pages:363-373
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:mercantile history
traders
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
Economics and Trade
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159472
https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1970-040-00-000027
Abstract:By the Ashanti northern trade is meant: market exchanges with Hausa, Mande, and Mossi caravan traders at the town of Bonduku (eastern Ivory Coast), Salaga (northern Ghana) before 1874, and at Kintampo (Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana) 1874-92. This paper attempts: 1. to establish the basis of the Ashanti trading relationship with the northern peoples - 2. to make distinctions between types of Ashanti traders, the scale and results of their operations, and to describe the production and distribution of kola from Ashanti - 3. to draw attention to those features of the nineteenth-century trade which contribute towards the understanding of what Tordoff has called 'the emergence and phenomenal growth of the cocoa industry' in the early years of this century. Bibl. notes, table, French summary.
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