Ransom as Political Strategy: Captivity beyond Commercial Transaction on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
N Carpenter - Journal of West African History, 2018 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Histories of ransoming in West Africa have placed it alongside a host of related practices
including pawning, panyarring, kidnapping, and enslavement, and firmly within histories of …
including pawning, panyarring, kidnapping, and enslavement, and firmly within histories of …
Medicine for Hatred: Civil, Criminal, and Supernatural Justice at the Nae We Shrine Tribunal in Accra, Ghana
J Roberts, RNO Codjoe, J Davison, F Martin… - African Studies …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Ga proverbial wisdom holds that “hate has no medicine,” but there is a sacred court in Accra
where people can calm the animosity that emerges from social conflicts. A unique form of …
where people can calm the animosity that emerges from social conflicts. A unique form of …
Asylum Courts, Transnational Petitioning, and Digital Dispersal in Africa
BN Lawrance, EB Corcoran, L Hooper - History in Africa, 2020 - cambridge.org
Asylum court records are a potentially important evidentiary basis for postcolonial African
history. Asylum-seeking is a contemporary transnational iteration of a rich African petitioning …
history. Asylum-seeking is a contemporary transnational iteration of a rich African petitioning …