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Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Coastal Ghana: A Social History of Cape Coast by Kwaku Nti; is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region experienced creeping British imperialism and incorporation into the British Gold Coast colony. Drawing on a wealth of Ghanian archival sources, historian Kwaku Nti shows how many aspects of traditional maritime daily life—customary ritual performances, fishing, and concepts of ownership, and land—served as a means of resistance and allowed residents
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- Author
- Kwaku Nti;
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780253067944
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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