Ivor Wilks
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85157 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ivor Wilks |
| NOMBRES | Ivor |
| APELLIDO | Wilks |
| FIRMA | WILKS I |
| AFILIACIONES | Northwestern University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 280 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1955 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were ones of momentous change in Europe. Out of the crises of feudalism arose the new nation-states. By the end of the period labor had taken precedence over bullion in the market, and the capitalist “world-system” had been born. In the fifteenth century the two subcontinents were inextricably linked within the Mediterranean economy, by virtue of the gold trade. The association of those called the Wangara wit…
The Growth of the Akwapim State
The Akwapim state, or Okuapemman, is in the hill country north of Accra, capital of Ghana. Sixteen of its towns lie in line along the crest of the main ridge, the Bewasebepow: from S. S. W. to N. N. E. they are Berekuso, Atweasin, Aburi, Ahwerase, Obosomase, Tutu Adukrom, and Apirede. Akwapim retains its traditional and typically Akan system of government intact in structure, though greatly diminished in function. The nineteenth-century account o…
Nehemia Levtzion and Islam in Ghana
This article traces the development of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon from its inception in 1960 through its early years. It records the steps by which a major concern of the new Institute became first, the study of the history of Islam in Ghana and its neighbours, and second, the investigation of materials in Arabic script written by Muslims in Ghana. The focus of the article is the important contribution that…
The Forest and the Twis
Dans cet article Ivor Wiks revient sur le débat ouvert par lui-même en 1977 sur les conditions de l’émergence, au milieu du XVIIe siècle, des Etats akan en pleine zone forestière de l’actuel Ghana. Les locuteurs du twi se seraient organisés en matriclans, qui favoriseraient l’assimilation d’étrangers. Il conforte cette position en puisant dans les sources anciennes (archives, relations de voyage, cartes) et en s’adressant également aux sources or…
"The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself" and Other Writings
History of Ashanti and the Whole Country and Other Writings. Edited by A. Adu Boahen, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Nancy Lawler, T. C. McCaskie, and Ivor Wilks. Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History, 6. New York: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2003. Pp. x, 234. $39.95. The History ofAshanti and the Whole Country Itself and Other Writings is billed as a documentary history, yet it is also both biography and autobiogr…
Mallams Do Not Fight with the Heathen”
David Robinson has recently remarked, apropos the development of African history as an academic discipline, that “by the 1960s, the subject of the ‘jihads of West Africa’ was a kind of growth industry, overwhelming other less spectacular forms of Islamic practice and Islamization.” Yet, from
Asante nationhood and colonial administrators, 1896–1935
This study has to do with Asante nationhood in the colonial period.1 Asante was declared a British Crown Colony, by right of conquest, by an Order of the King in Council of 26 September 1901.2 It was to be administered by a chief commissioner, responsible to the Crown through the governor of the Gold Coast Colony, but it was not to be annexed to that colony. From 1902 to 1957, when Britain’s Gold Coast became Nkrumah’s Ghana, thirteen men had ser…
Asante at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Osafroadu Amankwatia, who died in 1975, practiced law in Kumase from 1956 to 1972 before becoming legal adviser to the Northern Ghana House of Chiefs. He possessed a keen sense of history, and. in early 1940 had contributed several articles to The Ashanti Pioneer under the title, “Ashanti
One Nation, Many Histories
Unity and Progress”
This paper has to do with politics in, first, the Asanteman, which lost its independence de facto but not de jure to the British in 1896; second, in the Crown Colony of Ashanti created in 1901; and third, since 1957, in the Ashanti Region of what was to become the Republic of Ghana.[1][1] In 1970 I
Pawnship in Africa. Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective
Pawnship in Africa, Paul E. Lovejoy and Toyin Falola pawnship in the Niger Delta, E.J. Alagoa the resurgence of pawning in French West Africa during the Depression of the 1930s, Richard Roberts and Martin Klein indirect rule and the brief apogee of pawnship in Nimba, Liberia - 1918-1930, Martin Ford pawnship, economy, and the state in Abeokuta - 1920-1940, Judith Byfield pawning and enslavement for debt in the pre-colonial slave coast, Robin Law …
Living with Africa
Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana
Forests of Gold
"Slavery and Akan Origins?" A Reply
A new Stormin' Norman has appeared, but the action has shifted from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Guinea and from the sands of the Arabs to the forests of the Akan. Stormin' Norman Klein sets out to destroy not missile sites but rather an academic It is one that I supposedly created two decades ago and recently republished, essentially intact, in Forests of Gold (hereafter cited as FG). In the interim I have apparently fooled a number of excell…
Forests of Gold
The Asante had unique conceptions of time and motion, and the relationships between the unborn, the living and the dead. This study suggests that awareness of their past has much to do with the survival of their culture in this century
On Mentally Mapping Greater Asante
This paper examines the way in which Greater Asante was ‘mentally mapped’, thereby enabling government to regulate the movement of couriers, and others, along the great-roads. Lacking clocks, speed was reckoned anthropometrically, by reference to dɔn : rhythmic walking at a normal pace. Computing this against the determinate parts of the day, from dawn to dusk, on which travel (as opposed to eating and resting) was customary, it became possible t…
Wa and the Wala
Wa and the Wala
Wa and the Wala
Chronicles from Gonja
Wa and the Wala
Asante
The cloth of many colored silks
Affrifah, Kofi. – The Akyem Factor in Ghana’s History 1700-1875
This is a study of three traditional Akan states in Ghana, namely Akyem Abuakwa, Akyem Kotoku and Akyem Bosome. It is based on Kofi Affrifah’s doctoral thesis, “Akyem c. 1700-1874: A study in Inter State Relations in Pre-Colonial Gold Coast”, which was supervised by D. H. Jones and accepted by the University of London in 1976. It was the first full-length history of the Akyem polities to be written. Affrifah drew extensively on British, Dutch and…
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
Aspects of Bureaucratization in Ashanti in the Nineteenth Century
The Ashanti bureaucracy as we know it from the nineteenth century owed its structure and character to reforms in government initiated by Osei Kwadwo (1762–77) and pushed forward by his successors Osei Kwame (1777– ca. 1801) and Osei Bonsu ( ca. 1801–1824). Many previously hereditary offices became appointive: biographical studies of leading officials in the early nineteenth century show that they were appointed, and promoted, by the king on merit…
A Medieval Trade-Route from the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea
The Portuguese first sailed along the coast of what is now Ghana in 1471; thereafter regular trading relations were established at numerous ports of call between Axim and the Volta. The impact made by the newcomers upon local peoples with whom they came into direct or indirect commercial contact was marked. The creation of new maritime markets stimulated trade over wide areas, and the trend away from subsistence economies gained pace (so fortuito…
The Northern Factor in Ashanti History
In this paper I shall be concerned first with the early spread of Mande (or Mali, or Mandingo) peoples, carrying with them Islam, into the area of the later Ashanti, and secondly, with the importance of this for an understanding of the subsequent rise of the Ashanti kingdom in the later seventeenth century. Thirty Years ago Duncan-Johnstone pointed out that ‘it was Mandingo influence that first brought Ashanti in tough with the Moslem world to th…
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
Asante in The Nineteenth Century
The Ashanti Kings in the Eighteenth Century
In studying the early history of the West African states, one of the difficulties encountered is that of establishing a reasonably precise framework of chronology. Eighteenth-century Ashanti, however, would appear to be an exception to this in that the reigns of its kings are dated, although with some degree of variation, in all the standard works dealing with the area. Their authors, from this point of view, have followed either Thomas Edward Bo…
On Mentally Mapping Greater Asante
This paper examines the way in which Greater Asante was ‘mentally mapped’, thereby enabling government to regulate the movement of couriers, and others, along the great-roads. Lacking clocks, speed was reckoned anthropometrically, by reference to dɔn : rhythmic walking at a normal pace. Computing this against the determinate parts of the day, from dawn to dusk, on which travel (as opposed to eating and resting) was customary, it became possible t…
The State of the Akan and the Akan States
I. Wilks -L'état des Akan et les Etats akan : discursion. L'hypothèse de la féodalisation des communautés akan, émise par Rattray (1923) et reprise par Potekhin (i960), repose implicitement sur une approche évolutionniste. I. Wilks soutient que l'organisation de la société akan résulte plutôt d'une conjoncture de transformation abrupte de ses bases économiques entraînant une restructuration des rapports de production et l'apparition d'institution…
Salaga
The Forest and the Twis
Dans cet article Ivor Wiks revient sur le débat ouvert par lui-même en 1977 sur les conditions de l’émergence, au milieu du XVIIe siècle, des Etats akan en pleine zone forestière de l’actuel Ghana. Les locuteurs du twi se seraient organisés en matriclans, qui favoriseraient l’assimilation d’étrangers. Il conforte cette position en puisant dans les sources anciennes (archives, relations de voyage, cartes) et en s’adressant également aux sources or…
One Nation, Many Histories
Akwamu and Otublohum
IntroductionThis paper may be taken as an essay in the application of anthropological theory to other fields, in this case history. In it I am concerned to give a detailed account of a marriage arrangement that bound together the royal family of Akwamu and the ruling house of the Otublohum quarter of Accra. Akwamu, now a small state locked in the wooded hills of the Volta Gorge in south-east Ghana, was, in the late seventeenth and early eighteent…
Forests of Gold
Unity and Progress”
This paper has to do with politics in, first, the Asanteman, which lost its independence de facto but not de jure to the British in 1896; second, in the Crown Colony of Ashanti created in 1901; and third, since 1957, in the Ashanti Region of what was to become the Republic of Ghana.[1][1] In 1970 I
Chartism and Class Struggle
Asante
Unesco General History of Africa. Volume I
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
A Note on Sovereignty
Journal Article A Note on Sovereignty Get access Ivor Wilks Ivor Wilks University College of the Gold Coast. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 21, October 1955, Pages 342–347, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217078 Published: 01 October 1955
A Note on Sovereignty
Journal Article A Note on Sovereignty Get access Ivor Wilks Ivor Wilks University College of the Gold Coast. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 21, October 1955, Pages 342–347, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217078 Published: 01 October 1955
Akwamu and Otublohum
IntroductionThis paper may be taken as an essay in the application of anthropological theory to other fields, in this case history. In it I am concerned to give a detailed account of a marriage arrangement that bound together the royal family of Akwamu and the ruling house of the Otublohum quarter of Accra. Akwamu, now a small state locked in the wooded hills of the Volta Gorge in south-east Ghana, was, in the late seventeenth and early eighteent…
The Ashanti Kings in the Eighteenth Century
In studying the early history of the West African states, one of the difficulties encountered is that of establishing a reasonably precise framework of chronology. Eighteenth-century Ashanti, however, would appear to be an exception to this in that the reigns of its kings are dated, although with some degree of variation, in all the standard works dealing with the area. Their authors, from this point of view, have followed either Thomas Edward Bo…
The Northern Factor in Ashanti History
In this paper I shall be concerned first with the early spread of Mande (or Mali, or Mandingo) peoples, carrying with them Islam, into the area of the later Ashanti, and secondly, with the importance of this for an understanding of the subsequent rise of the Ashanti kingdom in the later seventeenth century. Thirty Years ago Duncan-Johnstone pointed out that ‘it was Mandingo influence that first brought Ashanti in tough with the Moslem world to th…
A Medieval Trade-Route from the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea
The Portuguese first sailed along the coast of what is now Ghana in 1471; thereafter regular trading relations were established at numerous ports of call between Axim and the Volta. The impact made by the newcomers upon local peoples with whom they came into direct or indirect commercial contact was marked. The creation of new maritime markets stimulated trade over wide areas, and the trend away from subsistence economies gained pace (so fortuito…
Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa. By A. W. Lawrence. London
Aspects of Bureaucratization in Ashanti in the Nineteenth Century
The Ashanti bureaucracy as we know it from the nineteenth century owed its structure and character to reforms in government initiated by Osei Kwadwo (1762–77) and pushed forward by his successors Osei Kwame (1777– ca. 1801) and Osei Bonsu ( ca. 1801–1824). Many previously hereditary offices became appointive: biographical studies of leading officials in the early nineteenth century show that they were appointed, and promoted, by the king on merit…
Salaga
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
Do Africans Have a Sence of Time
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
Lists of tables, figures, maps and plates Preface Preamble 1. Spatial aspects of government: the network of communications 2. Spatial aspects of government: the structure of empire 3. The politics of population: the demography of metropolitan Asante 4. Kumase and the southern provinces: the politics of control 5. Kumase and the southern provinces: the politics of retrenchment 6. Asante and the Gold Coast: the politics of indecision 7. Kumase and …
Asante in The Nineteenth Century
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
The Oyo Empire, c.1600–c.1836. A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Journal Article The Oyo Empire, c.1600–c.1836. A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade Get access The Oyo Empire, c.1600–c.1836. A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Robin Law. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977. 354pp. £11.50. IVOR WILKS IVOR WILKS Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 311, April 1979…
Akan Weights and the Gold Trade
Journal Article Akan Weights and the Gold Trade Get access Akan Weights and the Gold Trade, by Timothy F. Garrard. Longman, 1980. 393pp. £19.50. IVOR WILKS IVOR WILKS Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 80, Issue 320, July 1981, Pages 417–418, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097350 Published: 01 July 1981
Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I. The matter of Bitu
In late medieval and early modern times West Africa was one of the principal suppliers of gold to the world bullion market. In this context the Matter of Bitu is one of much importance. Bitu lay on the frontiers of the Malian world and was one of its most flourishing gold marts. So much is clear from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writings, both African and European. A review of this body of evidence indicates that the gold trade at Bitu was …
Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. II. The Struggle for Trade
Until 1471 the Wangara had enjoyed a monopolistic position in the Akan gold trade, consigning bullion to the markets of the Western Sudan (see the first part of this paper). The Portuguese entered the trade in the late fifteenth century, but experienced difficulty in deflecting gold to the coast. The strong demand for labour in the Akan country obliged them to import slaves from other parts of West Africa in order to achieve competitiveness. In 1…
Unesco General History of Africa. Volume I
The State of the Akan and the Akan States
I. Wilks -L'état des Akan et les Etats akan : discursion. L'hypothèse de la féodalisation des communautés akan, émise par Rattray (1923) et reprise par Potekhin (i960), repose implicitement sur une approche évolutionniste. I. Wilks soutient que l'organisation de la société akan résulte plutôt d'une conjoncture de transformation abrupte de ses bases économiques entraînant une restructuration des rapports de production et l'apparition d'institution…
R.A. Sargent
(1986). R.A. Sargent: “From a Redistribution to an Imperial Social Formation: Benin c. 1293–1536”. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 436-438
R. A. Sargent
Ivor Wilks, R. A. Sargent: "From a Redistribution to an Imperial Social Formation: Benin c. 1293-1536", Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1986), pp. 436-438
Reliving the Past
Partitioned Africans
Chartism and Class Struggle
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