Contribution à une étude de l'armée asante

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3620282
AutoresEmmanuel Terray (autor de correspondencia)
Año1976
Volumen16
Número61
Páginas297-356
Fecha de publicación1976-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
EditorialPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1976.2905
OpenAlexW2022556388
IdiomaFR
Citas recibidas9

E. Terray-A Contribution to the Study of the Asante Army. Ail the available sources agree on the outstanding military efficiency of the Asante army. Even when hopelessly outclassed by superior weaponry, Asante soldiers and officers still showed a sense of tactics and discipline on a par with their physical courage. It took machine-guns, repeaters and superior logistics to finally overcome them. Asante military superiority vis-a-vis the hinterland tribes is explainable in terms of a near monopoly of firearms, but this does not apply vis-a-vis the coastal people who were better supplied with guns and powder. The ultimate explanation seems to reside in Asante ideology which put a premium on values such as courage and discipline to the detriment, among other things, of economie entrepreneurship : the Asante economy was mainly geared to the maintenance and expansion of military power-and hence of Asante supremacy. This lead eventually to the use of a kind of intellectual conservatism which proved nearly self-defeating.in the long run

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