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L'exceptionnelle réunion de 10 essais de l'auteur se rapportant aux Akan et plus particulièrement aux Ashanti. On note dans le dernier chapitre l'histoire d'Akyaawa Yikwan, femme qui conduira les négociations avec les Anglais, les Hollandais et les Danois en 1831
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- Ch. 1: Wangara, Akan and portuguese in the 15e and 16e Centuries, pp. 1-40,
- Ch. 2: Land, Labor, Gold and the Forest Kingdom of Asante: A Model of Early Change, pp; 41-90,
- Ch. 3: Founding the Political Kingdom: The Nature of the Akan state, pp. 91-126,
- Ch. 4: The Golden Stool and the Elephant Tail: Wealth in Asante, pp. 127-168,
- Ch. 5: Dissidence in Asante Politics: Two Tracts from the Late Nineteenth Century, pp. 169-188,
- Ch. 6: On Mentally Mapping Greater Asante: A Study of Time and motion, pp. 189-214,
- Ch. 7: Space, Time, and Human Sacrifice, pp. 215-241,
- Ch. 8: What Manner of persons Were These ? Generals of the konti of Kumase, pp. 241-293,
- Ch. 9: What Manner of Persons Were These ? Officials of the Kumase Administration, pp. 293-323,
- Ch. 10: She Who Blazed a Trail: Akyaawa Yikwan of Asante, pp. 329-362.
- Ch. 1: Wangara, Akan and portuguese in the 15e and 16e Centuries, pp. 1-40,
- Ch. 2: Land, Labor, Gold and the Forest Kingdom of Asante: A Model of Early Change, pp; 41-90,
- Ch. 3: Founding the Political Kingdom: The Nature of the Akan state, pp. 91-126,
- Ch. 4: The Golden Stool and the Elephant Tail: Wealth in Asante, pp. 127-168,
- Ch. 5: Dissidence in Asante Politics: Two Tracts from the Late Nineteenth Century, pp. 169-188,
- Ch. 6: On Mentally Mapping Greater Asante: A Study of Time and motion, pp. 189-214,
- Ch. 7: Space, Time, and Human Sacrifice, pp. 215-241,
- Ch. 8: What Manner of persons Were These ? Generals of the konti of Kumase, pp. 241-293,
- Ch. 9: What Manner of Persons Were These ? Officials of the Kumase Administration, pp. 293-323,
- Ch. 10: She Who Blazed a Trail: Akyaawa Yikwan of Asante, pp. 329-362.
Ivor G. Wilks (1928-2014) est un universitaire africaniste, historien et spécialiste du Ghana et particulièrement de l'histoire du royaume ashante. Il a terminé sa carrière comme professeur émérite à la Northwestern University de l'Illinois (USA)
