Internal Colonial Boundary Problems of the Gold Coast, 1907-1951

Ethnicity in Electoral Politics in Ghana: Colonial Legacies and the Constitution as Determinants

“…In trialling effective ways to consolidate its legitimacy, the Nkrumah government wobbled from a hybrid of colonial-indigenous leadership (1951–1957) to Westminster-style parliamentary democracy (1957–1960), and through American-style presidential republic (1960–1963), to a coercive one-party system (1963–1966) that led to its demise in 1966 (Apter, 2008, 2015). During this period, the people of Trans Volta Togoland were integrated through a contested Plebiscite (Cogneau and Moradi, 2014), 1 the resource-rich Asante Territory resisted integration through the NLM and Asante chiefs (Allman, 1990; Beckman, 1974; Nkrumah, 1968), and people of the Northern Territory were disappointed that the British reneged on their promise to protect them against southern domination (Bening, 1984; The British Empire, 1985).…”

Different Ideas of Borders and Border Construction in Northern Ghana: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

“…Ghana's Northern Region offers myriad local ideas of space and border that intersect and hybridize the local administrative and cultural structures which are legacies of British rule (Bening 1981). During the colonial period, local political systems, essentially determined by a series of alliances disseminated on the territory, aligned with British structures, characterized by a concept of state delimited by fixed borders, to form new communities that one might define as "invented" or "imagined" (Lentz 2000a).…”