Exploring the Historic Nationalism of the Ewes

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Title:	Exploring the Historic Nationalism of the Ewes
Author:	Jenkins, Paul
Year:	1971
Periodical:	Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
Volume:	12
Pages:	95-100
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Ghana German Togoland
Subjects:	Ewe political unification nationalism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/41405795
Abstract:	A comment on D.E.K. Amenumey's 'The Pre-1947 Background to the Ewe Unification Question' (Transactions Hist. Society of Ghana, 10 (1969), p. 65-85). Taking up one aspect of the article - the picture which is built up in it of the nature of Ewe nationalism in the decades under review - Jenkins draws attention to that although Mr. Amenumey is appropriately careful about this in his concluding paragraphs, he is clearly attracted. to the idea that there was at this time a widespread untutored mass nationalism among Ewe people. It seems to Jenkins that it would serve to clarify Mr. Amenumey's findings if the problem of Ewe nationalism were approached through a more developed analytical perspective, and that the recent historiography of European nationalism could serve as a useful model for this. Notes.