Shaping Tradition : Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957 /

Shaping Tradition : Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957 /

Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial office...

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Main Author: Grischow, Jeff (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2006.

Series: African Social Studies Series ; 14.
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.

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Civil society > Ghana > History > 20th century.
Community development > Ghana > History > 20th century.

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Call Number: JQ3036

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