Roger Gocking
Biographic Data
| ID | 110670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Gocking |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Gocking |
| SIGNATURE | GOCKING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mercy University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4259-4383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ghana's Bui Dam and the Contestation over Hydro Power in Africa
The negative environmental and social consequences of the major era of hydroelectric dam building in the 1950s and 60s generated social and political opposition to similar projects by the 1990s. In Ghana, hydroelectricity's dependence on unpredictable rainfall also undermined the attractiveness of this source of electricity. The Bui Dam, Ghana's third hydroelectric dam, faced considerable opposition until 2006, when the Chinese government loaned …
The Adjudication of Homicide in Colonial Ghana: The Impact of the Knowles Murder Case
In keeping with the law in place in the Colony of Ashanti in 1928, Dr Benjamin Knowles was tried and convicted for the murder of his wife without the benefit of a jury trial or the assistance of legal counsel. His trial and sentencing to death created outrage in both colonial Ghana and the metropole, and placed a spotlight on the adjudication of capital crimes in the colony. Inevitably, there were calls for reform of a system that could condemn a…
Whom Do Men Say that I Look Like: Representing Christ and ChristianPersonaein Ghana
From the earliest attempts to spread Christianity in Ghana, European missionaries used religious art as an important tool for spreading ideas about the Christian faith. This was particularly so for the Catholics and Anglicans who have long-established traditions of religious iconography. Initially this art was highly Eurocentric in that Christ and Christian personae were represented as Caucasians. In the 1960s the need for what was described as i…
The History of Ghana
Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement…
Culture and Customs of Ghana
Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities under Colonial Rule
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Chieftaincy Dispute and Ritual Murder in Elmina, Ghana, 1945–6
Between 6.30 and 7.00 a.m. on Monday morning, 19 March 1945 the body of a young girl of ten was found on the beach a short distance from the town of Elmina at a popular bathing spot known as Akotobinsin. According to the coroner, she had been dead for between 24 and 48 hours. There was no water in her lungs or stomach which indicated that she had not died by drowning. Instead, her upper and lower lips, both cheeks, both eyes, her private parts an…
The tribunal system in Ghana's fourth republic: An Experiment in Judicial Reintegration
In 1982 the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) created special criminal courts known as Public Tribunals that were to adjudicate criminal matters concurrently with the established courts. They were not to replace the regular courts but were 'not to be fettered by the technical rules that in the past [had] ... enabled criminals to go free'. In 1993 when Ghana became the Fourth Republic these tribunals were reintegrated into the regular co…
Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities under Colonial Rule
chapter 1 Coastal Society: An Introduction chapter 2 The Making of Coastal Society chapter 3 Marriage and Inheritance chapter 4 Indirect Rule Versus Municipal Government chapter 5 Competition for Traditional Office chapter 6 Linking Two Political Cultures chapter 7 Linking Different Judicial Traditions chapter 8 Linking Different Legal Systems chapter 9 Conclusion chapter 10 Glossary chapter 11 Selected Bibliography chapter 12 Index
Ghana: Recurrence and Change in a Post-Independence African State
Colonial rule and the 'legal factor' in Ghana and Lesotho
This article compares and contrasts the development of the legal systems of two British colonies that occuped almost opposite ends of the colonial judicial continuum: what in colonial times were known as the Gold Coast and Basutoland. Both became British colonies in the late nineteenth century, but followed considerably different paths to that status. In the case of the Gold Coast it followed centuries of contact between Europeans and the coastal…
Ghana's Public Tribunals: An Experiment in Revolutionary Justice
GHANA'S PUBLIC TRIBUNALS: AN EXPERIMENT IN REVOLUTIONARY JUSTICE Get access ROGER GOCKING ROGER GOCKING Roger Gocking teaches atMercy CollegeDobbs Ferry, NY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 379, April 1996, Pages 197–223, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007717 Published: 01 April 1996
Indirect Rule in the Gold Coast: Competition for Office and the Invention of Tradition
(1994). Indirect Rule in the Gold Coast: Competition for Office and the Invention of Tradition. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 421-446
British Justice and the Native Tribunals of the Southern Gold Coast Colony
As a result of the policy of indirect rule which British administrators introduced into the Colony of the Gold Coast at the turn of the twentieth century, customary courts, or what were called Native Tribunals, became important venues of adjudication for the indigenous population. As a result, however, of the powerful impact of British justice on the Colony, the judicial responsibilities, procedure, personnel and the nature of the customary law t…
Court Records in Africana Research
A series of panels at the ASA meeting in November 1989 focused on sources and methods for the study of law in colonial Africa. At an informal discussion held afterwards, participants agreed that court records are potentially very valuable sources for historians, anthropologists, and other scholars of Africa but that they have not been used as widely as they might be. In an effort to alert Africanists to the existence of such documents and to enco…
Competing Systems of Inheritance before the British Courts of the Gold Coast Colony
Among the Western-educated community of the Gold Coast during the inter-war years, there seemed to be considerable public agreement that the and monstrous custom of matrilineal inheritance would gradually be swept away by the advancing tide of civilization. As one reporter in the Accra newspaper, The Gold Coast Indepenident, expressed it in 1932: the matrilineal family was primitive idea which every people at one stage of their evolution must pas…
Creole Society and the Revival of Traditional Culture in Cape Coast during the Colonial Period
Roger Gocking, Creole Society and the Revival of Traditional Culture in Cape Coast during the Colonial Period, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4 (1984), pp. 601-622
An Asante Embassy on the Gold Coast
British Justice and the Native Tribunals of the Southern Gold Coast Colony
As a result of the policy of indirect rule which British administrators introduced into the Colony of the Gold Coast at the turn of the twentieth century, customary courts, or what were called Native Tribunals, became important venues of adjudication for the indigenous population. As a result, however, of the powerful impact of British justice on the Colony, the judicial responsibilities, procedure, personnel and the nature of the customary law t…
Ghana's Bui Dam and the Contestation over Hydro Power in Africa
The negative environmental and social consequences of the major era of hydroelectric dam building in the 1950s and 60s generated social and political opposition to similar projects by the 1990s. In Ghana, hydroelectricity's dependence on unpredictable rainfall also undermined the attractiveness of this source of electricity. The Bui Dam, Ghana's third hydroelectric dam, faced considerable opposition until 2006, when the Chinese government loaned …
A Chieftaincy Dispute and Ritual Murder in Elmina, Ghana, 1945–6
Between 6.30 and 7.00 a.m. on Monday morning, 19 March 1945 the body of a young girl of ten was found on the beach a short distance from the town of Elmina at a popular bathing spot known as Akotobinsin. According to the coroner, she had been dead for between 24 and 48 hours. There was no water in her lungs or stomach which indicated that she had not died by drowning. Instead, her upper and lower lips, both cheeks, both eyes, her private parts an…
Colonial rule and the 'legal factor' in Ghana and Lesotho
This article compares and contrasts the development of the legal systems of two British colonies that occuped almost opposite ends of the colonial judicial continuum: what in colonial times were known as the Gold Coast and Basutoland. Both became British colonies in the late nineteenth century, but followed considerably different paths to that status. In the case of the Gold Coast it followed centuries of contact between Europeans and the coastal…
Indirect Rule in the Gold Coast: Competition for Office and the Invention of Tradition
(1994). Indirect Rule in the Gold Coast: Competition for Office and the Invention of Tradition. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 421-446
Court Records in Africana Research
A series of panels at the ASA meeting in November 1989 focused on sources and methods for the study of law in colonial Africa. At an informal discussion held afterwards, participants agreed that court records are potentially very valuable sources for historians, anthropologists, and other scholars of Africa but that they have not been used as widely as they might be. In an effort to alert Africanists to the existence of such documents and to enco…
Competing Systems of Inheritance before the British Courts of the Gold Coast Colony
Among the Western-educated community of the Gold Coast during the inter-war years, there seemed to be considerable public agreement that the and monstrous custom of matrilineal inheritance would gradually be swept away by the advancing tide of civilization. As one reporter in the Accra newspaper, The Gold Coast Indepenident, expressed it in 1932: the matrilineal family was primitive idea which every people at one stage of their evolution must pas…
The tribunal system in Ghana's fourth republic: An Experiment in Judicial Reintegration
In 1982 the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) created special criminal courts known as Public Tribunals that were to adjudicate criminal matters concurrently with the established courts. They were not to replace the regular courts but were 'not to be fettered by the technical rules that in the past [had] ... enabled criminals to go free'. In 1993 when Ghana became the Fourth Republic these tribunals were reintegrated into the regular co…
Ghana's Public Tribunals: An Experiment in Revolutionary Justice
GHANA'S PUBLIC TRIBUNALS: AN EXPERIMENT IN REVOLUTIONARY JUSTICE Get access ROGER GOCKING ROGER GOCKING Roger Gocking teaches atMercy CollegeDobbs Ferry, NY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 379, April 1996, Pages 197–223, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007717 Published: 01 April 1996
An Asante Embassy on the Gold Coast
The Adjudication of Homicide in Colonial Ghana: The Impact of the Knowles Murder Case
In keeping with the law in place in the Colony of Ashanti in 1928, Dr Benjamin Knowles was tried and convicted for the murder of his wife without the benefit of a jury trial or the assistance of legal counsel. His trial and sentencing to death created outrage in both colonial Ghana and the metropole, and placed a spotlight on the adjudication of capital crimes in the colony. Inevitably, there were calls for reform of a system that could condemn a…
An Asante Embassy on the Gold Coast
Creole Society and the Revival of Traditional Culture in Cape Coast during the Colonial Period
Roger Gocking, Creole Society and the Revival of Traditional Culture in Cape Coast during the Colonial Period, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4 (1984), pp. 601-622
Court Records in Africana Research
A series of panels at the ASA meeting in November 1989 focused on sources and methods for the study of law in colonial Africa. At an informal discussion held afterwards, participants agreed that court records are potentially very valuable sources for historians, anthropologists, and other scholars of Africa but that they have not been used as widely as they might be. In an effort to alert Africanists to the existence of such documents and to enco…
Competing Systems of Inheritance before the British Courts of the Gold Coast Colony
Among the Western-educated community of the Gold Coast during the inter-war years, there seemed to be considerable public agreement that the and monstrous custom of matrilineal inheritance would gradually be swept away by the advancing tide of civilization. As one reporter in the Accra newspaper, The Gold Coast Indepenident, expressed it in 1932: the matrilineal family was primitive idea which every people at one stage of their evolution must pas…
British Justice and the Native Tribunals of the Southern Gold Coast Colony
As a result of the policy of indirect rule which British administrators introduced into the Colony of the Gold Coast at the turn of the twentieth century, customary courts, or what were called Native Tribunals, became important venues of adjudication for the indigenous population. As a result, however, of the powerful impact of British justice on the Colony, the judicial responsibilities, procedure, personnel and the nature of the customary law t…
Indirect Rule in the Gold Coast: Competition for Office and the Invention of Tradition
(1994). Indirect Rule in the Gold Coast: Competition for Office and the Invention of Tradition. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 421-446
Ghana's Public Tribunals: An Experiment in Revolutionary Justice
GHANA'S PUBLIC TRIBUNALS: AN EXPERIMENT IN REVOLUTIONARY JUSTICE Get access ROGER GOCKING ROGER GOCKING Roger Gocking teaches atMercy CollegeDobbs Ferry, NY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 379, April 1996, Pages 197–223, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007717 Published: 01 April 1996
Colonial rule and the 'legal factor' in Ghana and Lesotho
This article compares and contrasts the development of the legal systems of two British colonies that occuped almost opposite ends of the colonial judicial continuum: what in colonial times were known as the Gold Coast and Basutoland. Both became British colonies in the late nineteenth century, but followed considerably different paths to that status. In the case of the Gold Coast it followed centuries of contact between Europeans and the coastal…
A Chieftaincy Dispute and Ritual Murder in Elmina, Ghana, 1945–6
Between 6.30 and 7.00 a.m. on Monday morning, 19 March 1945 the body of a young girl of ten was found on the beach a short distance from the town of Elmina at a popular bathing spot known as Akotobinsin. According to the coroner, she had been dead for between 24 and 48 hours. There was no water in her lungs or stomach which indicated that she had not died by drowning. Instead, her upper and lower lips, both cheeks, both eyes, her private parts an…
The tribunal system in Ghana's fourth republic: An Experiment in Judicial Reintegration
In 1982 the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) created special criminal courts known as Public Tribunals that were to adjudicate criminal matters concurrently with the established courts. They were not to replace the regular courts but were 'not to be fettered by the technical rules that in the past [had] ... enabled criminals to go free'. In 1993 when Ghana became the Fourth Republic these tribunals were reintegrated into the regular co…
Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities under Colonial Rule
chapter 1 Coastal Society: An Introduction chapter 2 The Making of Coastal Society chapter 3 Marriage and Inheritance chapter 4 Indirect Rule Versus Municipal Government chapter 5 Competition for Traditional Office chapter 6 Linking Two Political Cultures chapter 7 Linking Different Judicial Traditions chapter 8 Linking Different Legal Systems chapter 9 Conclusion chapter 10 Glossary chapter 11 Selected Bibliography chapter 12 Index
Ghana: Recurrence and Change in a Post-Independence African State
Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities under Colonial Rule
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Culture and Customs of Ghana
The History of Ghana
Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement…
Whom Do Men Say that I Look Like: Representing Christ and ChristianPersonaein Ghana
From the earliest attempts to spread Christianity in Ghana, European missionaries used religious art as an important tool for spreading ideas about the Christian faith. This was particularly so for the Catholics and Anglicans who have long-established traditions of religious iconography. Initially this art was highly Eurocentric in that Christ and Christian personae were represented as Caucasians. In the 1960s the need for what was described as i…
The Adjudication of Homicide in Colonial Ghana: The Impact of the Knowles Murder Case
In keeping with the law in place in the Colony of Ashanti in 1928, Dr Benjamin Knowles was tried and convicted for the murder of his wife without the benefit of a jury trial or the assistance of legal counsel. His trial and sentencing to death created outrage in both colonial Ghana and the metropole, and placed a spotlight on the adjudication of capital crimes in the colony. Inevitably, there were calls for reform of a system that could condemn a…
Ghana's Bui Dam and the Contestation over Hydro Power in Africa
The negative environmental and social consequences of the major era of hydroelectric dam building in the 1950s and 60s generated social and political opposition to similar projects by the 1990s. In Ghana, hydroelectricity's dependence on unpredictable rainfall also undermined the attractiveness of this source of electricity. The Bui Dam, Ghana's third hydroelectric dam, faced considerable opposition until 2006, when the Chinese government loaned …
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