Bibliography on Indigenous Knowledge of Ghana

This bibliography is in the making as we keep adding to the list. We will appreciate your contribution in building onto the list here.

Abraham, W. E. (1962). The mind of Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ackah, C. A. (1988). Akan ethics. Accra: Ghana Universities Press.
Adjaye, Joseph K. (1994). Editor. Time in the black experience. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
_____. (1984). Diplomacy and diplomats in nineteenth century Asante. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Agbenaza, E. (n.d.). The Ewe Adanudo. Unpublished B.A. Thesis, Arts Faculty Library, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Aggrey, J. E. K. (1992). Ebobo bra den 1. Accra: Bureau of Ghana Languages.
_________. (1978). Asafo. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
_________ (1977). Ebisaa na abrome. Accra: Bureau of Ghana Languages.
Agyeman-Duah, J. (n.d.). Ashanti stool histories. Accra: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
_______. 1962. Ceremonies of enstoolment of Otumfuo Asantehene. Ashanti Stool Histories, Volume 2, Series No. 33. Accra: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
Aidoo, Agnes. A. (1981). Asante queen mothers in government and politics in the nineteenth century. In Filomena Steady (Editor). The black woman cross-culturally. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenckman.
________. (1977). Order and conflict in the Asante Empire: A study in interest group relations. African Studies Review, 20(1): 1-36.
Aidoo, Thomas Akwasi (1983). Ghana: Social class, the December coup, and the prospects for socialism.                Contemporary Marxism, 6: 142-159.
Akoto, Nana Baafuor Osei. (1992). Struggle against dictatorship. Kumasi: Payless Printing Press.
Akuffo, B. S. (1976). Ahenfie adesua. Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
Allman, Jean Marie (1990). The youngmen and the porcupine: Class, nationalism and Asante's struggle for                 self-determination, 1954-57. Journal of African History, 31: 263-279.
Alpern, Stanley B. (1995). What Africans got for their slaves: A master list of European trade goods. History                 in Africa, 22: 5-43.
Aning, B. A. (1975). Nnwonkoro. Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
Antiri, Janet Adwoa (1974). Akan combs. African Arts, 8(1): 32-35.
Antubam, Kofi (1963). Ghana's heritage of culture. Leipzig: Kehler and Amelang.
_________. (1961). Ghana art and crafts. Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation
Appiah, Peggy (1979). Akan symbolism. African Arts, 13(1): 64-67.
Arhin, Kwame (1990). Trade, accumulation, and the state in Asante in the nineteenth century. Africa, 60(4): 524-537.
________. (1987). Savanna contributions to the Asante political economy. In Enid Schildkrout (Editor). The                   Golden Stool: Studies of the Asante center and periphery. New York: American Museum of Natural History.
________. (1986). A note on the Asante akonkofo: A non-literate sub-elite, 1900-1930. Africa, 56(1): 25-31.
________. (1983a). Rank and class among the Asante and Fante in the nineteenth century. Africa, 53(1):                    2-22.
________. (1983b). The political and military roles of Akan women. In C. Oppong (editor). Female and male in west Africa. London: George Unwin and Allen.
________. (1968). Status differentiation in Ashanti in the niniteenth century: A preliminary study. Research                   Review, 4: 34-52.
________ . (1967a). The financing of Ashanti expansion, 1700-1820. Africa, 37: 283-291.
_______. (1967b). The structure of Greater Ashanti (1700-1824). Journal of African History, 8: 65-86.
Aronson, Lisa (1992). The language of West African textiles. African Arts, 25 (3): 36-40, 100.
Arthur, G. F. Kojo (2001). Cloth As Metaphor: (Re)reading the adinkra cloth symbols of the Akan of
Ghana. Accra: Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
_________. (1994). Cloth as metaphor: Some aspects of the Akan philosophy as encoded in the adinkra cloth. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Toronto, Canada.
Bannerman, J. Yedu (1974). Mfantse-Akan mbebusem nkyerekyeremu. Tema: Hacquason Press.
Bellis, J. O. (1972). Archaeology and the culture history of the Akan of Ghana, a case study. Doctoral                   dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Bledsoe, C. and K. Robey. (1986). Arabic literacy and secrecy among the Mende of Sierra Leone. Man, 21:                   202-226.
Boahen, A. Adu (1977). Ghana before the coming of Europeans. Ghana Social Science Journal, 4(2): 93-106.
________. (1972). Prempeh I in exile. Institute of African Studies Research Review, 8(3): 3-20.
________. (1966). The origins of the Akan. Ghana Notes and Queries, 9: 3-10.
Borgatti, Jean. (1983). Cloth as metaphor: Nigerian textiles from the Museum of Cultural History. Los                   Angeles: Museum of Cultural History.
Bosman, W. (1705). A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea. London cited in T. Garrard (1980). Akan weights and the gold trade. London: Longman.
Bowdich, T. E. (1819). Mission from Cape Coast to Ashantee. London: John Murray.
Bravmann, R. (1974). Islam and tribal art in West Africa. London: Cambridge University Press.
________. (1968). The state sword - A pre-Ashanti tradition. Ghana Notes and Queries, 10: 1-4.
Britwum, K. A. (1974). Kwadwo Adinkra of Gyaman: A study of the relations between the Brong Kingdom of                  Gyaaman and Asante from c.1800-1818. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 15(2): 229-239.
Busia, K. A. (1954). The Ashanti of the Gold Coast. In Daryll Forde (Editor). African worlds: Studies in the                   cosmological ideas and social values of African people. London: Oxford University Press.
_______ (1951). The position of the chief in the modern political system of Ashanti. London: Oxford                   University Press.
Charon, Joel (1985). Symbolic interaction: An introduction, and interpretation, an integration. 2nd Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Christian, Angela (1976). Adinkra oration. Accra: Catholic Press.
Chukwukere, I. (1982). Agnatic and uterine relations among the Fante: Male/female dualism. Africa, 52(1): 61-68.
_______. 1978. Akan theory of conception - are the Fante really aberrabt? Africa, 48(2): 135-147.
Cohen, Abner (1979). Political symbolism. Annual Review of Anthropology, 8: 87-113.
Cole, H. M. and D. Ross (1977). The arts of Ghana. Los Angeles: UCLA.
Coulmas, Florian (1996). The Blackwell encyclopedia of writing systems. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Cruickshank, B. (1853). Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa. 2 Volumes. (Reprinted 1966,
London: Frank Cass and Co.
Daaku, K. Y. (1970). Denkyira. UNESCO Research Project on Oral Traditions, No. 2. Niamey, Niger: OAU.
Dalby, David (1986). Africa and the written word (L'Afrique et la lettre). Paris: Karthala.
Danquah, J. B. (1944). The Akan doctrine of God. London: Lutterworth Press.
Dantzig, Albert van (1980). Forts and castles of Ghana. Accra: Sedco Publishing.
Datta, Ansu (1972). The Fante asafo: A re-examination. Africa, 42(4): 305-315.
Darkwah, Kofi (1999). Antecedents of Asante Culture. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana. New Series 3: 57-79.
Datta, Ansu and R. Porter (1971). The Asafo system in historical perspective. Journal of African History,
                  12(2): 279-297.
Davis, Fred (1992). Fashion, culture, and identity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
de Graft Johnson, J. H. (1932). The Fanti Asafu. Africa, 5(3): 307-322.
de Saussure, Ferdinand (1966). Course in general linguistics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Dickson, K. B. (1971). A historical geography of Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dolphyne, Florence Abena and Kropp-Dakubu, M. E. (1988). The Volta-Comoe languages. In M. E. Kropp-Dakubu, editor. The Languages of Ghana. London: KPI, Ltd.
Domowitz, Susan (1992). Wearing proverbs: Anyi names for printed factory cloth. African Arts, 25(3): 82-87,
                 104.
Dseagu, S. A. (1976). Proverbs and folktales of Ghana: Their form and uses. In J. M. Asimeng (Editor).                  Traditional life, culture and literature in Ghana. New York: Conch Magazine Limited.
Dunn, J. S. (1960). Fante star lore. Nigerian Field, 25(2): 52-64.
Dupuis, J. (1824). Journal of a residence in Ashantee. London
Dzobo, N. K. (1992a). African symbols and proverbs as source of knowledge and truth. In Kwasi Wiredu and                   Kwame Gyekye (editors). Person and community: Ghanaian philosophical studies, I. Washington, D.C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.
________. (1992b). Values in a changing society, man, ancestors and God. In Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye (editors). Person and community: Ghanaian philosophical studies, I. Washington, D.C.:  Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. Ekem, John D. Kwamena (1994). Priesthood in context: A study of Akan traditional priesthood in dialogical relation to the pries-christology of the epistle to the Hebrews, and its implications for a relevant functional priesthood in selected churches among the Akan of Ghana. Doctoral dissertation, Univesrity of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Efa, Edwin (1968, 1944). Forosie, 11th Edition. Cape Coast: Methodist Book Depot.
Elder, Charles and Roger Cobb (1983). The political uses of symbols. New York: Longman.
Ellis, A. B. (1964). The Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa: Their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, etc. Chicago: Benin Press.
________. (1969). A history of the Gold Coast of West Africa. New York: Negro University Press.
Ephrim-Donkor, Anthony S. (1994). African personality and spirituality: The Akanfo quest for perfection and                   immortality. Doctoral dissertation, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Erlich, Martha J. (1981). A catalogue of Ashanti art taken from Kumasi in the Anglo-Ashanti War of 1874.                    Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Folomkina, S. And H. Weiser (1963). The learner's English-Russian dictionary. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT                     Press.
Fromkin, V. and R. Rodman (1978). An introduction to language, 2nd Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart                     and Winston.
Fortes, Meyer (1950). Kinship and marriage among the Ashanti. In A. R. Radcliffe-Brown and D. Forde (Editors). African systems of kinship and marriage. London: Oxford University Press.
Fortes, M. and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. (1967). Eds. African political systems. New York: KPI.
Fraenkel, Gerd (1965). Writing Systems. Boston: Ginn and Company.
Fraser, Douglas (1972). The symbols of Ashanti kingship. In D. Fraser and H. Cole (Editors). African art and leadership. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
_______ and H. Cole (1972). Editors. African art and leadership. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Frutiger, Adrian (1991). Signs and symbols: Their design and meaning. London: Studio Editions.
Fynn, J. K. (1971). Asante and its neighbours, 1700-1807. London: Longman.
Gallant, Thomas W. (1994). Turning the horns: Cultural metaphors, material conditions, and the peasant language of resistance in Ionian Islands (Greece) during the nineteenth century. Society for Comparative Study of Society and History, 36(4): 702-719.
Garrard, T. F. (1980). Akan weights and the gold trade. London: Longman.
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Gilfoy, Peggy S. (1987). Patterns of life: West African strip-weaving traditions. Washington, D. C.:National Museum of African Art.
Glover, Ablade (1971). Adinkra symbolism (a chart). Accra: Liberty Press.
Goody, J. (1986). The logic of writing and the organization of society. Cambridge: Cambridge University                   Press
________. (1977). The domestication of the savage mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gott, Edith S. (1994). In celebration of the female: Dress, aesthetics, and identity in contemporary Asante.                   Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Graffenried, Charlote V. (1992). Akan Goldgewichte im Bernishen Historischen Museum (Akan goldweights in the Berne Historical Museum). Bern: Bernisches Historisches Museum.
Gyekye, Kwame (1992). The Akan concept of a person. International Philosophical Quarterly, 18(3): 277-287.
_________. (1987). An essay on African philosophical thought: The Akan conceptual scheme. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hagan, George P. (1970). A note on Akan colour symbolism. Research Review, 7(1): 8-13.
_____________ (1971). Ashanti bureaucracy: A study of the growth of centralized administration in Ashanti                     from the time of Osei Tutu to the time of Osei Tutu Kwamina Esibe Bonsu. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 12: 43-62.
Hau, Kathleen (1973). Pre-Islamic writing in West, Africa. Bulletin del'IFAN, 35(Series b, 1): 1-45.
________. (1967). The ancient writing of Southern Nigeria. Bulletin del'IFAN, 29(Series b, 1-2): 150-190.
________. (1964). A royal title on a palace tusk from Benin (Southern Nigeria). Bulletin del'IFAN, 26(Series                     b, 1-2): 21-39.
________. (1961). Oberi Okaime script, texts, and counting system. Bulletin del'IFAN, 23(1-2): 291-308.
________. (1959). Evidence of the use of pre-Portuguese written characters by the Bini? Bulletin del'IFAN,
                21: 109-154.
Hayward, Fred M. And Ahmed R. Dumbuya (1984). Political legitimacy, political symbols, and national
               leadership in West Africa. Journal of Modern African Studies, 21(4): 645-671.
Henige, David (1975). Akan stool succession under colonial rule - continuity or change? Journal of African
             History, 16(2): 285-301.
Hess, Janet (2001). Exhibiting Ghana: Display, documentary, and "national" art in the Nkrumah era.
African Studies Review, 44(1): 57-77.
Hill, Polly (1963). The migrant cocoa-farmers of Southern Ghana: A study in rural capitalism.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hopkins, A. G. (1973). An economic history of West Africa. New York: Columbia University Press.
Howard, Rhonda (1978). Colonialism and underdevelopment in Ghana. New York: African
               Publishing Company.
Jonah, Kwesi (1999). The C. P. P. and the Asafo Besuon: Why unlike poles did not attract. Transactions of
               the Historical Society of Ghana. New Series, 3: 47-56.
Kay, G. B. (1972). The political economy of colonialism in Ghana: A collection of documents
               and statistics, 1900-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kayper-Mensah, A. W. (1976). Sankofa: Adinkra poems. Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
Kent, Kate (1971). Introducing West African cloth. Denver: Denver Museum of Natural History.
Kiyaga-Mulindwa, D. (1980). The "Akan" Problem. Current Anthropology, 21(4): 503-506. Kramer, Fritz W. (1984). Notizen zur Ehnologie der Passiones. Institut fuer Ethnologie, Berlin.
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_________. (n.d.). Kingship and ceremony in Ashanti. Kumasi: UST Press.
_________. (1971). Interstate boundary litigation in Ashanti. In African Social Research Documents,
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La Torre, Joseph R. (1978). Wealth surpasses everything. Doctoral dissertation, University of California,
                Berkeley, CA.
Labi, Kwame Amoah (1998). Fights, riots, and disturbances with 'objectionable and provocative art' among
             the Fante Asafo companies. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana. New Series, 2:
             101-116.
Laluah, Aquah (1960). The serving girl. In Langston Hughes (editor). An African treasury. New
             York: Pyramid Books.
Lamb, Venice (1975). West African weaving. London: Duckworth.
Lewin, Thomas J. (1978). Asante before the British: The Prempean years, 1875-1900. Lawrence, KS:
               The Regents Press of Kansas.
Liberman, I. Y. and A. M. Liberman (1992). Whole language vs code emphasis. In P. B. Gough, L. C, Ehri
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Lystad, Robert A. (1958). The Ashanti: A proud people. New York: Greenwood Press.
Manuh, Takyiwaa. (1988). The Asantehemaa's court and its jurisdiction over women: A study in legal
                  pluralism. Research Review (NS), 4(2): 150-166.
Mason, William A. (1928). A history of the art of writing. New York: McMillan Company.
Mato, Daniel (1986). Clothed in symbols - the art of Adinkra among the Akan of Ghana. Doctoral
                   dissertation, Department of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
McCaskie, T. C. (1989). Death and the Asantehene: A historical meditation. Journal of African History,
                30:  417-444.
________. (1986). Komfo Anokye of Asante: The meaning, history and philosophy in an African society.
Journal of African History, 27: 315-339.
________. (1984). Ahyiamu - "a place of meeting": An essay on process and event in the history of the
Asante state. Journal of African History, 25(2): 169-188.
________. (1983). Accumulation, wealth and belief in Asante history, I: To the close of the nineteenth
               century. Africa, 53(1): 23-43.
________. (1981). State and society, marriage and adultery: Some considerations towards a social history
                of pre-colonial Asante. Journal of African History, 22: 477-494.
McGuire, Harriet C. (1980). Woyo pot lids, African Arts, 13(2): 54-56.
McLeod, M. D. (1981). The Asante. London: British Museum.
_________. (1976). Verbal elements in West African art. Quaderni Poro, 1: 85-102.
McWilliam, H. O. A. and M. A. Kwamena-Poh (1978). The development of education in Ghana. London:
                 Longman.
Mensah, J. E. (1992). Asantesem ne mmebusem bi. Kumasi, Ghana: Catholic Press.
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Meyerowitz, Eva L. R. (1962). At the court of an African king. London: Faber and Faber.
_________. (1952). The Akan traditions of origin. London: Faber and Faber.
________. (1951). The sacred state of the Akan. London: Faber &;Faber.
Minkus, Helaine K. (1980). The concept of spirit in Akwapim Akan philosophy. Africa, 50(2): 182-192.
National Museum of African Art. (1997). Adinkra: The cloth that speaks. Washington, D.C.: National
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Niangoran-Bouah, G. (1984). L'univers Akan des poids a peser l'or, Volumes I, II, & III. Abidjan, Cote                     d'Ivoire: Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines.
Nketia, J. H. (1974). Ayan. Accra: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
_______. (1969). Funeral dirges of the Akan people. New York: Negro Universities Press.
Obeng, Ernest E. (1988). Ancient Ashanti chieftancy. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
Obeng, J. Pashington (1995). Asante women dancers: Architects of power realignment in Corpus Christi.                     Boston: African Studies Center, Boston University.
_________. (1991). Asante Catholicism: Ritual communication of the Catholic faith among the Akan Ghana.
                Doctoral dissertation, Boston University.
Ofori-Ansah, Kwaku (1978). Symbols of adinkra cloth (a chart). Washington, D.C.: Department of Art,  
Howard University.
___________ (1993). Symbols of adinkra cloth (a chart).
Opoku, Kofi Asare (1976). The destiny of man in Akan traditional religious thought. In J. M. Asimeng (Editor). Traditional life, culture and literature in Ghana. New York: Conch Magazine Limited.
___________. (1978). West African traditional religion. Accra: FEP International.
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Ott, J. Steven (1989). The organizational culture perspective. Chicago: Dorsey Press.
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_________. (1980). The Asante stool. Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
________. (1979). The stool and Asante chieftancy. African Arts, 13(1): 74-77, 98.
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__________. (1992). Tradition, technology, and lurex: Some comments on textile history and design in West                     Africa. In National Museum of African Art. History, design, and craft in West African
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__________ (1972). The language of adinkra patterns. Legon, Ghana: Institute of African Studies.
__________. (1968). A debut of Ghanaian traditional visual art into liturgical art of the Christian church of 
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_______. (1969b). Ashanti Proverbs. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
__________. (1927). Religion and art in Ashanti. London: Oxford University Press.
_______. (1923). Ashanti. London: Oxford University Press.
Reynolds, Edward (1973). Agricultural adjustments on the Gold Coast after the end of the slave trade,                     1807-1874. Agricultural History, 47(4): 308-318.
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________. (1977). Girls' nubility rites in Ashanti. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
_______. (1974). Ghana in retrospect: Some aspects of Ghanaian culture. Tema: Ghana Publishing                     Corporation.
_______. (1972). Aspects of Akan ethics. Ghana Bulletin of Theology, 4(3): 40-44.
________. (1971). The sacred stools of the Akan. Tema, Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corporation.
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_______. (1992). On mentally mapping Greater Asante: A study of time and motion. Journal of African
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_________. (1982). Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, I. The matter
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________ (1975). Asante in the nineteenth century: The structure and evolution of a political
               order. New York: Cambridge University Press.
_______. (1962). The Mande loan element in Twi. Ghana Notes and Queries, 4: 26-28.
Willis, Elizabeth A. (1987). A lexicon of Igbo Uli motifs. Nsukka Journal of the Humanities, 1: 91-120.
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___________ (1989). The proverb in the context of Akan rhetoric: A theory of proverb praxis. Bern,                     Germany: Peter Lang.
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