From Atlantic Creoles to African Nationalists: Reflections on the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Fanteland

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Title:	From Atlantic Creoles to African Nationalists: Reflections on the Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Fanteland
Author:	Shumway, Rebecca
Year:	2015
Periodical:	History in Africa (ISSN 1558-2744)
Volume:	42
Pages:	139-164
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	Fante polity historiography
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2015.22
Abstract:	This article argues that the history of southern Ghana exhibits far more continuity from the era of the slave trade to the time of British colonization in the late-nineteenth century than one can find in the existing historiography. Emphases on the expansion of the Asante kingdom and on the increased activity of European missionaries, capitalists, and bureaucrats have obscured the steady growth of indigenous cultural, political and social institutions which culminated in the formation of the Fante Confederation of 1868. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]