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Title:On matrilineal inheritance in Ga Mashi: is reform needed?
Author:Mettle, M.A.
Year:1972
Periodical:Review of Ghana Law
Volume:4
Issue:1
Pages:72-78
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:customary law
family law
External link:https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/rvghana4&id=80
Abstract:Succession in Ga Mashi is matrilineal whereas it is patrilineal in the rwest of the Ga State of Ghana. The author exposes the significance of the matrilineal inheritance as well as the arguments of both the advocates and the adversaries. He also discusses the need of reform.