Impossible Histories, Power, and Exclusion in the Gold Coast and Ghana 1930–2020

Abstract

In the rough and tumble of social interaction, groups are known to exploit the ambiguities of inherited forms, to impart new evaluations or valencies to them, to borrow forms more expressive of their interests, to create wholly new forms in answer to changed circumstances … ''A culture'' is thus better seen as a series of processes that construct, reconstruct, and dismantle cultural materials in response to identifiable determinants. wolf 1982, 3871 … That the [Nawuri] case has been shown to be fictitious does not disprove the forces of tradition.